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Pilsen Population Demographic Ø Total Population: 32,789 Ø Median Age: 32.5 Ethnic Demography Ø Black non-Hispanic: 3.5% Ø Hispanic or Latinx: 74% Ø Asian non-Hispanic: 3.3% Ø White non-Hispanic: 18% Economic Profile Ø Owner Occupied: 26.6% Although this was originally a port of entry for Irish and German Ø Renter Occupied: 62% immigrants in the 1800s, it wasn't until the second wave of immigrants, a majority of them Czech, that Pilsen received it's Ø Median Household Income: $45,204 name. These new residents named the neighborhood after Plzen, one of the largest cities in the modern-day Czech Republic, and Ø Average people per Household: 2.7 from the "neo-bohemian baroque style architecture" to the numerous ornate and fascinating churches, they immediately Education Statistics began putting their "Old World" stamp on the area. Pilsen remained a predominantly Eastern European Ø No Highschool: 30.4% neighborhood until 1960s, when, displaced by the construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, a "sizeable Mexican Ø Highschool: 19.4% population drifted south to the neighborhood." Mexican-Americans have dominated the area since this time, and the neighborhood, Ø Associate’s Degree: 5.3% with its countless number of Mexican restaurants, grocers, bakeries, and shops, as well as the National Museum of Mexican Art, has Ø Bachelor’s Degree: 20.4% grown into one Chicago's centers of Mexican culture Ø Graduate Degree: 10.9% FUN FACTS THALIA HALL NATIONAL 16 STREET MURAL GEORGE HALAS SAMBO CHAMP MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART Housed in a historic Stretching from the George Halas, coach Raised in Pilsen, James bohemian public hall One of the largest Chicago River to and owner of Chico Hernandez, was dating back to 1892, Latino cultural orgs in Western Avenue, the the Chicago Bears. He the first sambo Thalia Hall reopened in the U.S., where Mexican walls host a vibrant and was raised in Pilsen and champion to be 2014 as a music venue artists from both sides evolving outdoor attended Peter Cooper featured on a box with the help of the of the border are gallery of murals by School of Wheaties Energy team behind local rock represented prominent artists. Crunch club the Empty Bottle. throughout a series of galleries..