A Photographer Captures His Community in a Changing Chicago Barrio – The New York Times

Sebastian Hidalgo grew up in Pilsen, an old Chicago neighborhood, when it was still Chicano through and through: Day of the Dead, Virgen de Guadalupe, Mexican Independence Day and other traditional festivals filled the community calendar. Murals from the late 1960s turned buildings into canvases, alleys into museums. And the food — “authentic Mexican” a restaurant critic called it — came straight from wherever the chef’s roots lay, be it Michoacan or Mexico City.