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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Ambar Colón

Steel flags on Paseo Boricua shine bright with new lights to illuminate the holiday season

The Humboldt Park Puerto Rican flag at Western and Division, which acts as the neighborhood’s gateway, is lit up for the first time since its installation in 1995. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

The iconic flags that designate Chicago’s official Puerto Rican community just got brighter.

This holiday season, lights are illuminating the two 60-foot-tall Puerto Rican flags that stand between the half-mile stretch of West Division Street known as Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park.

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