About

About the project

Latino Urban Leaders in Chicago preserves the history of Chicago's Latino civic leaders, activists, and organizations, so that students, researchers, and community members can find it and learn from it.

The project began in 2013 as a partnership between UIC Library Special Collections, the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and the UIC Latino Cultural Center. Its goal was a multimedia archive of the leaders and social movements that shaped Chicago's Latino communities, starting with Rudy Lozano. His papers found a permanent home at UIC Special Collections, and this site shares the photographs his family kept.

What you'll find here

• A photo archive. Hundreds of photographs of Rudy Lozano, his family, his campaign, and the marches and rallies of the late 1970s and 1980s.
• His story. A short biography and timeline to put the photographs in context.
• A path to the papers. Where to find the original Rudy Lozano Papers at the University of Illinois Chicago.

For teachers and students

The archive is open to everyone. Educators are welcome to use these photographs to bring Chicago's civic and labor history into the classroom. Please credit the Lozano family collection.

Recognize someone?

Many photographs in the archive still have no names or dates. If you recognize a person, place, or event, we'd love to hear from you. Each photo's ID appears when you open it.

Credits

Photographs courtesy of the Lozano family. Original project partners: UIC Library Special Collections, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, and the UIC Latino Cultural Center.