Latin Restaurant Weeks is back for its fifth year in Chicago with chefs, restaurants and pop-ups hoping to highlight the diverse flavors of the Hispanic culinary scene across the city with prix fixe menus ranging from traditional homestyle recipes to ones serving up modern mole pizza.

While there is a diverse lineup and a variety of specials to pick from, this year’s 20 participating restaurants is almost half what the number was last year, largely due to the political climate. Organizers for Latin Restaurant Weeks said many of its usual roster of restaurants are feeling the economic and emotional effects of the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement in the city and suburbs, forcing them to fly under the radar.

“People are just hypervigilant and we’re proud of who we

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