A running club in Pilsen mobilized to support tamaleras who had been robbed. The event’s success inspired other efforts.

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A running club in Pilsen mobilized to help tamaleras who had been robbed. The event’s success inspired other efforts.

The success of the event inspired the club to keep helping neighborhood tamaleras, women who make and sell tamales. After all, the running club Pasqual Ruiz founded in 2021 is about more than just the sport, he said. In fact, the running comes second; it is family, friends and culture that come first.

The women have been selling tamales at 21st and Damen for several decades. Their fear has grown after reports of a spike in armed robberies of vendors in Little Village and other Southwest Side neighborhoods. But tamales are their livelihood and the only way to move on was to keep running the business, Alvarez said.Christopher King, a member of the Tortugas Run Club and a Pilsen resident, had told Pasqual Ruiz about the robbery at Alvarez’s stand. He buys tamales from her, “so the robbery hit close to home,” King said.

The running crew has two more events planned to support the community, including a fundraiser for a scholarship for college students and a community cleanup in Harrison Park.

 

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