Louisville Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

10/15/2026

Hispanic Heritage Month ends today. 🇨🇴

Thirty days of festivals, murals, music, and food. We loved all of it.

And tomorrow, October 16, the Latino-owned businesses in this city are still here. Still hiring. Still growing faster than almost any other segment of the American economy. Still roughly half as likely to receive the full financing they ask for.

A heritage month is a good door. It is not the destination.

Have you joined the Louisville Hispanic Chamber? Learn more here: https://louisvillehcc.com/

10/13/2026

Aflora Art Festival. October 18. Old Forester's Paristown Hall. Free. 🎨

Reminder that artists, printmakers, designers, and makers are small business owners too — same cash flow, same pricing problems, same need for a chamber in their corner.

Who are you buying from today? 👇

https://www.lacasitacenter.org/aflora

10/12/2026

10/09/2026

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10/08/2026

In June, Mayor Greenberg announced La Villa Lou as the community-selected name for the Preston Highway corridor from south of I-264 to the Outer Loop. The community picked it by vote last October. It honors what is already there: Hispanic culture, Hispanic entrepreneurship, and a stretch of road that has been a Latino main street in this city for years.

La Villa Lou Festival.
Sunday, October 11, noon to 9 p.m. Preston Plaza, 4132 Outer Loop. Free.
https://louisvilleky.gov/government/office-strategic-initiatives/la-villa-lou

10/06/2026

Kentucky's registration deadline passed yesterday, but if you are already registered, here is everything else you need between now and November 3.

Excused in-person absentee voting: October 21, 22, 23 and October 26, 27, 28

No-excuse early in-person voting: Thursday through Saturday, October 29, 30, 31

Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

https://www.jeffersoncountyclerk.org/Voter-Info/Voting/In-Person-Voting

¿Necesitas información en español? La encuentras en VOTE411.

09/22/2026

In cities across the country, Latino or Hispanic businesses represent large shares of local economies.

#502

Are you a member of the Chamber? You should be! Learn more at louisvillehcc.com

09/17/2026

Let’s talk numbers, because the numbers are incredible.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Business Survey counts 465,202 Latino-owned employer businesses in the United States — that’s businesses with actual payroll, not side hustles.

Together they:
📈 Employ 3.55 million people
💵 Generate more than $653 billion in annual revenue
🚀 Grew employment 14% and revenue 19% in a single year

Every one of those numbers is somebody’s family business. Somebody’s first hire. Somebody’s decision to bet on themselves.

This is the economy the Louisville Hispanic Chamber exists to serve.

Save this post. You’ll want it the next time someone asks why this work matters.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Business Survey (2022 data), as analyzed by the Brookings Institution.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/charting-the-surge-in-latino-or-hispanic-owned-businesses-in-the-us/

09/15/2026

Today's celebration is not by accident.

Hispanic Heritage Month starts on September 15 in celebration of five countries — Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua — announcing their independence on this day in 1821. Mexico’s came on September 16, 1810. Chile’s on September 18. The event, first celebrated in 1968, commemorates how those communities have influenced and contributed to American society.

A month built around independence days is a good frame for what we do here. The Latino business community in Louisville is not asking for permission. It’s building — restaurants, construction firms, logistics companies, salons, clinics, agencies, shops — and it’s growing faster than almost any other segment of the American economy.

For the next 30 days we’re telling that story. The businesses. The data. The partners.

Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana, Louisville. 🎉

Comment with where your family is from — we want to see the map of this community. 🇨🇴