For the past 16 years, Mauro Rios Parra has ridden his bike to a warehouse on Washington Boulevard to start his day as a paletero. And every day for 16 years, he’s stuffed the same pushcart with ...

By Judy Cantor-Navas Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band´s summer song for children, “Paletero Man,” is a tribute to the tropical popsicle sellers whose carts are hot weather fixtures in ...

THIS IS NEAR THIRD AND FLORIDA AND THE WALKER’S POINT NEIGHBORHOOD. IT DEPICTS A PALETERO SELLING FROZEN TREATS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THE ARTIST MILWAUKEE NATIVE MICHAEL CYREIA, WAS INSPIRED BY ...

Though he is almost 70, Rosario Del Real puts his back into his latest job, strolling through the streets of the East Side neighborhood of Chicago in his snakeskin cowboy boots, pushing a paleta ...