Vice President Kamala Harris visited McCormick Place on Monday, seeking to enlist Latino support in a coalition to defeat “extremists” and their agenda of taking away hard-fought rights.

       Conferencegoers in brightly colored suit jackets and dresses gathered to hear Harris at the culmination of the 2023 UnidosUS Annual Conference: “The Power of US.” The conference — organized by UnidosUS, formerly National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino nonprofit advocacy organization in the country — brought together national and local leaders to celebrate the Latino community in Chicago and across the nation.

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       Harris referenced the history of the group, dating back to the height of the Civil Rights Movement when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sent a telegram to Cesar Chavez about the farmworkers’ movement, writing that “our separate struggles are really one.”