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May 06, 2008

2010: The Year of Mexico in Chicago

Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art will be coordinating cultural events throughout the city during 2010, declared by Mayor Daley The Year of México in Chicago. The museum proposed the idea to the Mayor in recognition of two Mexican anniversaries and celebrations: the 200th anniversary of Mexican Independence and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. The National Museum of Mexican Art (formerly Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum is the largest and leading Méxican cultural institution in the U.S. In addition to visual-arts exhibitions and performance festivals, the museum has an education program serving more than 200,000 people annually ,including 60,000 K-12 students. 90.5 FM Radio Arte is the museum's youth-driven, bilingual public radio station committed to "advancing the voices of a multilayered society through socially conscious journalism, media literacy, training and programming." [LINK]

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