For many decades, since the early ’70s, there was a grandiose celebration for Mexican Independence Day in downtown Chicago; a majestic parade and a ceremony the night of Sept. 15 in Grant Park where people would gather with their flags and their pride to hear “El Grito,” from Mexican and city leaders. The event commemorated the cry of the Mexican people to rise against the Spaniards. It was .
As the sugar beet farms grew through the ‘30s and ‘40s, domestic labor could not keep up with the demand and it took thousands of Mexican immigrants to come to North Dakota to do the job.