Mapping Latino/Latin American Chicago: Theoretical and Cultural Dimensions in the Age of Globalization (MLAC), was held at UIC September 28-29. Funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and UIC's Great Cities Institute, and with support from several UIC sources, MLAC involved key Latin American and Latino Cultural Studies specialists already present in the city to participate in LASA (9/24-26), for the purpose of meeting with Chicago and Midwest Latin Americanist and Latino Studies scholars and cultural workers and activsts to explore the history, present state and future implications of Chicago's Latino emergence, and to the orize the parameters for the study of Chicago as a hybrid but significantly Latin Americanized city for the twenty-first Century. Rewrites of several of the papers presented plus many additional texts, will be presented in LACASA's forthcoming book, Ciudades latinoamericanas y procesos urbano en el nuevo [des]orden mundial. Other rewrites and additional texts (including some of the articles below) are being considered for a subsequent volume tenatively entitled Procesos transnacionales y transformaciones culturales entre los latinos de los Estados unidos.