One day after ICE agents detained a tamale vendor in Chicago, members of her family were out in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, selling out their stock in just one hour, but now there’s growing concern over the chilling effect that could linger among the wider street vendor community.
On 26th Street in Little Village, the city’s second busiest retail corridor, noticeably fewer street vendors have been working in recent weeks amid Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
“The streets are normally filled,” said Maria Orozco, with the Street Vendors Association of Chicago…