Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Ctr
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Grassroots community organizing non-profit in Humboldt Park, Chicago!
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2011
🎶✨Get ready for our annual Parranda at Paseo Boricua! 🎶 Come celebrate with us a festive night of aguinaldos, música navideña, comunidad, and holiday spirit. Bring your voices, your instruments, and your energy as we fill Humboldt Park with the sounds of las navidades
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Battle Bandera: Fighting Youth Violence with Boxing 🥊 https://t.co/GhKJsYSxSs
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For many of the city’s youth, safety can be hard to find – but at Battle Bandera, they’re welcomed with open arms and open hearts. It’s a youth violence prevention initiativ…
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Join us this Giving Tuesday! Support the Centro Infantil Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, a vital piece of the Paseo Boricua community. Your gift helps us nurture healthy development, spark creativity, strengthen community, and enhance safety for our little learners. Give
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Puerto Ricans fought to get the military out of Vieques to protect their health and environment. I am deeply alarmed by the reports of DoD’s renewed military presence in Vieques. I joined @NydiaVelazquez to demand answers from Defense Secretary Hegseth on the military
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Today we give thanks for our community, our culture, and the resilience that unites us. 💛 From pernil and arroz con gandules to pasteles and tembleque, we celebrate with sabor boricua and gratitude. ¡Buen provecho y bendiciones!🙏🏽 #DiaDeAccionDeGracias #Thanksgiving
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🌹 Join us this World AIDS Day as we mark 37 years of Vida/SIDA, Chicago’s longest-running Latino HIV prevention and care program. It will be a time for reflection and community healing as we honor those we’ve lost, celebrate our community’s resilience, and recommit to the fight
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Giving thanks by giving back! 🧡 On Wednesday, Nov 26, Papa's Cache Sabroso Restaurant will be donating 100 Thanksgiving meals for local families in need to prepare at home. Join us at 2pm at 2517 W Division St as we come together to support one another this holiday season. 🦃
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We’re excited to support the grand opening of Dope Drip Cafe this Saturday! 🎉 Stop by and show love to the new Paseo Boricua business bringing flavor and culture to the neighborhood. #BarrioBoriken #PuertoRicanFood #HumboldtPark
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Leaders from state, city, and community organizations came together yesterday for the Economic Development Summit to advance a unified economic development strategy for the Barrio Borikén state-designated Cultural District and begin laying the foundation for a future Puerto Rico
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🎶¡Llegó, llegó, llegó la Navidad!🎄Join us for the Barrio Borikén Holiday Market & Lighting of the Steel Flag in Humboldt Park. There will be food, hot chocolate, photobooth, parrandas, a “trulla” down Division St and much more. 📅 Saturday, November 29 | 4PM–7PM 📍2800 W.
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Our community is growing and so are the opportunities! 🌟 Join us for the Economic Development Summit to help shape the vision for a Barrio Borikén Chamber of Commerce. 🗓 November 19, 2025 | 9 AM–2 PM 📍 National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Hosted by @Ward26Chicago
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On This Day: While in custody at the Federal Detention Center in Tallahassee, 33-year-old Angel Rodríguez Cristóbal was killed while serving time for civil disobedience in protest of the U.S. Navy’s occupation of Vieques. His funeral procession in Puerto Rico can be seen here:
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Puerto Ricans have served in the U.S. Armed Forces since the Spanish–American War and have sacrificed many sons and daughters in every major conflict since. There are an estimated 300,000+ Puerto Rican veterans, including prominent historical figures, activists, and members of
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La SEIU de Chicago pide una fecha concreta para salir de la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal en Puerto Rico -
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El sindicato hace suyo reclamos de concejos municipales de su ciudad y San Luis
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🕯️👀 Check out all the chilling activities and festive stops along Haunted Paseo! Enjoy treats & candy, haunted houses, games, face-painting, and free haircuts for kids in costumes. You don’t want to miss it! 🗓 Halloween, Oct 31🎃 🕒 3-7pm 📍W Division St, Western & California
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😱 Haunted Paseo Boricua is back! Explore the haunted streets of Barrio Borikén and experience Humboldt Park like never before. We hope to see you there. 🍬 🙀 ¡Regresa el Paseo Encantado! Explora las calles embrujadas de Barrio Borikén y vive una experiencia única en Humboldt
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👻 Trick-or-treat in the heart of Humboldt Park! This Halloween, Haunted Paseo brings candy, costumes, and fun for all ages in Barrio Borikén. Join us from 3-7pm at Division St between California & Western 🎃 #HauntedPaseo #BarrioBoriken #PaseoBoricua #SpookySeason #TrickOrTreat
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Did you know? You’ve been speaking Taíno without even realizing it! Puerto Rico’s Indigenous Taíno heritage lives on not only in the Caribbean, but also right here in Humboldt Park’s Paseo Boricua Barrio Borikén, and in the languages we speak every day. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Chicago alderperson: I went over to the hospital and I simply asked the ICE agents if they had a signed judicial warrant for the individual that they were trying to detain inside of the emergency room. No one was harassing the ICE agents. In fact, the only person harassed in that
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