The week leading up to Friday’s flag-raising and the 21st annual Tejano Festival Saturday in the city was declared Illinois Tejano Week in Aurora.
Mayor Richard Irvin greets people at a ceremony featuring the raising of the Tejano flag in downtown Aurora on Friday. And it took that long for the Tejano flag to fly in the city.
In raising the flag, Clayton Muhammad, Aurora’s chief communications and equity officer and senior advisor to the mayor, said the event matches “the One Aurora philosophy of Richard Irvin – that you belong here.” For Aurora, the migration began in the early 1950s, and the community began to grow, city officials said. In 1959, five Tejano men working at the old Austin-Western plant in Aurora organized the Latin American Club, and in 1966, the club bought a building near the Austin-Western plant, and near the Jack Hill Bridge over the railroad tracks on North Farnsworth Avenue, and the club has flourished since.
Mercy Galicia, a longtime Tejano organizer in Aurora, was honored Friday and given the chance to raise the Tejano flag in the city’s downtown.
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