RUN FOR SOMETHING: Jos "Che-Che" Turrubiartez Wilson for Cook County Commissioner, District 1
“I was born and raised in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. My parents immigrated from Mexico, and were undocumented until only a couple years ago. My step-dad has been a landscaper my whole life, and my mom was a homemaker, raising me and my three sisters. Wicker Park was very different in the 90s and early 2000s compared to today. I remember gangs tormenting my community and surviving drive-bys and shootings. Like my family, almost everyone I knew growing up was raised in an undocumented household and my community was often forgotten by every level of government.
“I grew up in extreme poverty, living in 11 different homes growing up because my family would be evicted or priced out of apartments. At the time, there were few resources to educate people about their tenant rights in Spanish. In high school, the apartment we lived in, my parents, my three sisters and I, was 400 square feet. Until I moved out at 18, I never had my own room, even my own bed. I slept on the couch, because we never had enough space.”
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