Chicago's Barrios

Did you expect to find a MacDonald's or a traditional Mexican store? In Chicago's Mexican-American community on the West Side, this MacDonald's is more Mexican than the MacDonald's in Mexico City! Inside, half the space on the menu is in Spanish.
What two characteristics in the photo are related to Mexico?

Answers: flying flags of Mexico; usingthe national colors of Mexico
Other distinctive Mexican-American landscape elements are murals and investment in older houses.

Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 June 1996.