Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, "folks like me — yuppies, luppies, huppies, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here," he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals.

Wiscovitch calls himself a "huppie". Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie.

Paul Rodriguez is one bilingual comedian who hasn't been lost in thetranslation. …

Among the work he has been doing have been films such as "D.C. Cab'' and this year's "Quicksilver'', a Kevin Bacon Wall-Street-on-wheels vehicle, in which he played an aspiring huppie (Hispanic Urban Professional).