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Sandra seen settles and politician Jesus Garcia are known as Latino Trail Blazers, Chicago celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

We wanted to hear from you about a Latino person who was influenced or inspired you.

So we hit the streets.

And here's what some of you had to say.

>> person that I look up to the most is my mother by far.

I mean, she raised my sister and me.

She provided for us throughout our childhood through college.

And even when we've had some arguments, she's always been there for us.

>> A couple of people that go by the name the first was my grandmother, my on something.

She was a kindergarten teacher that was given to uplift marginalized identities and she was passionate and education, which by of that 2 go into education So when I mean, my spit look at hunting is a la Cruz.

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>> Woman that I think I look up to the most, who's been a really big inspiration for me has been a trans woman who was born and raised in this neighborhood.

Hitting was Reyna Valentino.

She was the first person to teaching about outreach about HIV prevention.

Unfortunately, she passed away HIV which led me to come into the field that inspired me to be able to lift up my community spread the awareness and get people tested so we can be able to go ahead and just overcome the stigma to some of HIV.

>> One of the most significant things that we did about 50 years ago is to have named a building foot full weight to walk up to him and that the first Latino main building in Chicago and the school was mostly Latino.

So at that point, we decided that in 1972 with probate the Walker let that died, they we will honor him for being a great baseball player, but a humanitarian because he was part of the civil rights movement to name the school after him.

>> And I have to say that my biggest role model has been my father.

He migrated to Chicago when he was 17 years old,