Skill: Infer and Support the Main Idea
PILSEN 7th Grade Nonfiction Center for Urban Education ©2007
Pilsen is an old community in Chicago with a long history. This part of Chicago started small and got bigger, as most neighborhoods in the city did. Its cultural history is about moving, changing, and connecting. Many people have moved there over the decades. This movement started when immigrants chose to settle in this part of the city when Chicago was growing rapidly. An immigrant is a person who moves from one country to another. Pilsen’s first people spoke German. They had moved from Germany. If you go to Pilsen today you will see some of the places they built. But when they first moved there, it had just a few homes.
Then immigrants continued to migrate there; newcomers moved to …show more content…
They worked on railroads and on docks along the Chicago River, loading and unloading lumber, and in factories, too. They had a lot to do to make a home in their new country, and it was not easy to accomplish the changes.
Cooperation and collaboration were important for the progress of each family and the whole community. The newcomers built churches, created gardens, opened stores, and set up newspapers.
The newspapers were published in their own language, and they were a way to educate the newcomers about their own community and the city through articles and editorials. Many entrepreneurs opened businesses, and soon the community was bustling. Some social workers supported this progress, they guided the immigrants who kept coming to the community. They set up settlement houses, where people could learn English and get help finding work and housing. But then there was movement out of the community, it was a local migration to suburbs and other parts of the city. People were looking for more opportunities. As the population declined, businesses closed.
Then there was another movement into Pilsen, which you’ll see a symbol of if you go
PILSEN 7th Grade Nonfiction Center for Urban Education ©2007
Pilsen is an old community in Chicago with a long history. This part of Chicago started small and got bigger, as most neighborhoods in the city did. Its cultural history is about moving, changing, and connecting. Many people have moved there over the decades. This movement started when immigrants chose to settle in this part of the city when Chicago was growing rapidly. An immigrant is a person who moves from one country to another. Pilsen’s first people spoke German. They had moved from Germany. If you go to Pilsen today you will see some of the places they built. But when they first moved there, it had just a few homes.
Then immigrants continued to migrate there; newcomers moved to …show more content…
They worked on railroads and on docks along the Chicago River, loading and unloading lumber, and in factories, too. They had a lot to do to make a home in their new country, and it was not easy to accomplish the changes.
Cooperation and collaboration were important for the progress of each family and the whole community. The newcomers built churches, created gardens, opened stores, and set up newspapers.
The newspapers were published in their own language, and they were a way to educate the newcomers about their own community and the city through articles and editorials. Many entrepreneurs opened businesses, and soon the community was bustling. Some social workers supported this progress, they guided the immigrants who kept coming to the community. They set up settlement houses, where people could learn English and get help finding work and housing. But then there was movement out of the community, it was a local migration to suburbs and other parts of the city. People were looking for more opportunities. As the population declined, businesses closed.
Then there was another movement into Pilsen, which you’ll see a symbol of if you go