West of Corktown

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Mexicantown does not start on the other side [[west) of the freeway. The freeway cut the neighborhood in two. The pedestrian bridge was built to try and reconnect the two sides. If you look at the businesses on the east side of the freeway, they are just as Mexican as the west side, including two of the oldest and most popular businesses: Mexican Village Restaurant and La Colmena [[Honeybee) Mercado.

And, yes, while the official western border of Corktown is Rosa Parks Blvd, for as long as I can remember everything east of the railroad tracks, south & east of I-75 is considered Corktown. Many houses in that area have been on the yearly Corktown Home Tour over the past 30 years.

To be very technical and go by the neighborhood borders on Google Maps, the popular restaurant row on Bagley on both sides of the freeway is in Hubbard-Richard, not Mexicantown But no one can argue that you can't include that in Mexicantown.

So for practicality's sake, everything east of the railroad tracks is Corktown and everything west is Mexicantown.

Hubbard-Richard defenders start your attacks now!!