Hundreds lined Pilsen street for 20th annual Mexican Independence Day Parade
Santiago and Vanessa Alvarez brought their two boys, Mikel, 10, and Matteo, 12, to Pilsen Saturday afternoon to have them experience for the first time their local Mexican heritage parading through the neighborhood.
Last but not least, the parade line finished with La Michoacana ice cream trucks. A paradegoer near the end yelled, “This is the best part right here!” Santiago said he has attended the Pilsen parade before “a long time ago,” but it was the first time for his kids. The parade was canceled the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so he said this year was finally a good time for them to come, but he said there was still some concern about “how crazy things can get.”
Santiago said he hopes the community will keep these traditions alive and “fight back” against attempts to gentrify the neighborhood.
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