Book Presentation Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood

Posted on Friday, July 29

Peter N. Pero. Author; Professor at Benito Juárez Communitary Academy.
Benjamín Anaya, Editor / Coordinator of Feria del Libro Girón Books (September 1- 5, 2011)
Len Domínguez, Activist, Educator. Former Principal of Benito Juárez Communitary Academy; Director, Fine Arts Gallery Carlos & Domínguez.

Peter N. Pero. Chicago’s Pilsen Neighborhood. Foreword by Carlos Tortolero.  Arcadia Publishing: Images of America Series, 2011, 128 pp. (English).

Benjamín Anaya’s Review (published at the Chicago Reader, July 7, 2011)

The book it’s not only a great collection of images, that include photography, vintage postcards, historic maps, facade designs, drawings, front covers of publications (among them, the Chicago Reader’s”Who Killed Rudy Lozano?”), and treasured information, all about Pilsen (Plzen in Czech). You can find graphic/written references to Antonin Dvorak, Damaso Perez-Prado, Carl Sandburg, Cantinflas, César Chávez, as well as many contemporary artists. This research is a valued document, graphically attractive, with punctual information about the urban/demographic changes in this point of entry for immigrants, occurred from the first settlers Marquette and Joliet, to the heritage left within its walls by Croatians, Slovenians, Germans, Lithuanians, Poles, Italians, Czechs, and in the last years, Mexicans and other Latinos. Softcover. $ 21.99

BOOK PRESENTATION AND SIGNING
Wednesday,  August 3
6:30 PM

Girón Books
1443 W 18th St.