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Originally Posted by Wigs
and turned Chicago into a Mexican food capital with tortilla factories and everything  |
made in Pilsen since 1950:
source:
https://www.amazon.com/EL-MILAGRO-Sa.../dp/B00LPEZKZA
Started by a mexican immigrant who came to chicago back in the '40s as a trackman on the old illinois central RR.
Railroad work was a very common path for the earliest mexican immigrants who came to chicago back in the day.