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Guía Roji. Guía Roji (Roji's Guides) is a cartography company based in Mexico City. Guía Roji was created in 1928 by Joaquín Palacios Roji Lara. Since that year, the characteristic cover color of the map books has been red. The first maps showed the reduced size of Mexico City in the 1920s. In the late 1960s, the number of maps began to ...
Museum entrance. The National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA) is a museum featuring Mexican and Chicano art and culture. It is located in Harrison Park in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The museum was founded in 1982 by Carlos Tortolero and opened on March 27, 1987. It is the only Latino museum accredited by the American Alliance of ...
During the 1940s braceros were brought to Chicago and became a part of the Mexican-American community. [2] There were 35,000 people categorized as Spanish-speaking in Chicago by 1950, including Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. [2] In 1960 there were 23,000 Chicagoans who were born in Mexico.
The Original Maxwell Street Market was an impromptu ghetto market established in the late 19th century by newly arrived Jewish residents from Eastern Europe. A Sunday-only affair, it was a precursor to the flea market scene in Chicago. The market was officially recognized by the city in 1912.
Templo de Santa Mónica. Colonia Del Valle (Spanish: Del Valle neighborhood) is a Colonia in the Benito Juarez borough of Mexico City. [1] Founded as an aristocratic recreational neighborhood during the Porfiriato era, it has witnessed the various transformations of the capital over time. [2]
Multilevel streets in Chicago. 360 North Michigan, Mather Tower and 35 East Wacker stand on East Wacker Drive just west of Michigan Avenue and the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of ...
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Historic center of Mexico City. The historic center of Mexico City (Spanish: Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being ...