The same table Jose Almanza used to sell his homemade garapiñados — caramelized peanuts and pecans — outside a restaurant in Little Village for more than 25 years now is adorned with flowers and votive candles. Almanza, 67, known as “el señor de los cacahuates,” (“the man who sells peanuts”), died three days after he … Continue reading After putting sons through college in Mexico by selling sweet nuts for decades, Little Village vendor killed by car fleeing police: ‘He never returned home’