For the second year in a row, organizers canceled Chicago’s Cinco de Mayo parade because of concern about immigration enforcement. Despite that looming threat, business owners in Belmont Cragin are figuring out how to support and collaborate with each other. Plus, new data is out on Chicagoans’ perception of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement in the fall, including how more than 64% of residents opposed the operation.
In the Loop learns more about what these numbers tell us, and gets insight into how business owners in a majority Latino community on the city’s Northwest Side are faring five months out from the end of Operation Midway Blitz.
GUESTS: Brian Fabes, senior fellow at NORC, University of Chicago and co-director ChicagoSpeaks
Melissa Quintana, executive director and founder of Hermosa Belmont Cragin Chamber of Commerce
