In some neighborhoods in Chicago, you can stumble onto a bakery simply by following the scent. Take Pilsen, where you’ll find many bakeries clustered around 18th Street, sometimes just a few doors down from one another.
And this got one curious Chicagoan wondering:
In neighborhoods like Pilsen, how do Mexican bakeries stay in business with so much competition?
It turns out the answer has a lot to do with culture and tradition. We dive into the answer this week.