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3 unusual facts about Paseo Boricua


Paseo Boricua

The Humboldt Park Paseo Boricua neighborhood is the flagship of all Puerto Rican enclaves, This neighborhood is the economic political and cultural capital of the Puerto Rican community in the Midwest and some say in the Puerto Rican Diaspora.

By the 1950s, Chicago's Puerto Rican community was centered in West Town and Humboldt Park on the city's Northwest Side as well as in nearby Lincoln Park on the North Side.

Visitors can hear salsa, reggaeton, bomba, plena, and merengue music pulsating through the streets and smell the mouth-watering carne guisada puertorriqueña.



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