La Casa del Pueblo Taqueria

La Casa del Pueblo Taqueria is a family-owned Mexican restaurant at 1834 S. Blue Island Ave. in Pilsen. The dining room is set up as a cafeteria-style line, with tamales, tortas de camarón and chicharrones en salsa verde among the dishes. The kitchen also takes Christmas tamale orders, and the family has cooked for Pilsen customers for more than six decades.

What to know

• Martha Saucedo and her mother, Maria Sanchez, founded the business in the 1960s inside a neighborhood supermarket.
• Time Out Chicago calls the tamales the main reason to visit and warns that the green, jalapeño-based pico de gallo is very hot.
• City license records list a retail food license at the Blue Island Avenue address in Martha Saucedo’s name as far back as 2002.
• The CTA’s No. 60 Blue Island/26th bus runs past the door, and the Pink Line’s 18th Street station is less than half a mile west.
• Martha Saucedo bought a 1957 storefront at 6723 W. Cermak Road in Berwyn in 2018, according to Cook County records, and the family has named that building as the restaurant’s next home.