Founders of La Catrina Café say goodbye to Pilsen, good day to

Six years in the past, Diana Galicia and Salvador Corona stop their jobs, cashed out their retirement financial savings and opened a espresso store on 18th Street in Pilsen. The transfer paid off: La Catrina — named after Mexico’s grand dame of loss of life — grew to become a neighborhood staple quickly after opening on International Women’s Day in 2013. Artists, politicians and lecturers from close by Joseph Jungman Elementary have been regulars. Vendors turned the café right into a avenue market nearly each weekend. “We wanted to create a space for the community to come in and enjoy,” stated Galicia who, like Corona, grew up in Pilsen. “Nothing else mattered.” Sunday was the couple’s