Chicago Sun-Times | September 13, 2025
Taught by Laura Gomez, the class — aka “The Breakfast Club” — was held at the Pilsen Arts & Community House on West 18th Street. The weekly, $10 sessions are open to participants ages 9 to 13, and their work is featured in an annual show at the gallery. The nonprofit also hosted a mural tour of the predominantly Mexican neighborhood to raise money for the Pilsen/Little Village Uniting Voices Chicago choir.
Those arts events offered moments of joy during a Mexican Independence Day weekend clouded by increased operations by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago. The city’s El Grito festival, scheduled for this weekend in Grant Park, was downsized to a smaller celebration in Pilsen on Monday. But the 26th Street Mexican Independence Day Parade will move forward in Little Village on Sunday.
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