Mexican Hometown Associations in ChicagoacánChicago is home to the second largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicagos Mexican immigrant communityits many hometown associations. Hometown associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in Mexico and often begin quite