and we fight for political empowerment because we know that those are tools to improve the quality of life. we just elected the first central american congressperson from illinois... - oh, wow. - in delia ramirez. in the next decade, i predict there will be a latina or latino mayor and there will be a latinx governor. - that would be big, because chicago is known for its machine politics. throughout the 1900s, the same politicians kept getting elected year after year, and because their policies promoted discriminatory hiring and residential segregation, communities like little village continued to be shortchanged. that is why chuy is determined to break that cycle. there's this greek phrase, but latinx people have adopted it and especially mexican activists, "they tried to bury us, but they didn't know that we were seeds." what does that mean to you? - it means that for a long time,