The Museo del Palacio de Gobierno in downtown Guadalajara is being expanded, with a temporary exhibition hall being installed at a cost of 1.6 million pesos.

Some 800,000 visitors spent time in metropolitan Guadalajara during Easter Week this year, according to the Jalisco Department of Tourism. Hotel occupancy in the metro area reached 44 percent, up from 42 percent for the same period last year. In Puerto Vallarta, occupancy rates rose to 83 percent, up from 78 percent last year.

A public preschool opened last August in Tlaquepaque was closed after municipal Civil Protection officials found serious cracks and fissures in classrooms. The April 11 earthquake also lifted paving stones in the main patio. Some 130 kindergarteners were sent home as a preventative measure and the school will remain closed until the damage can be assessed by the city’s public works department.

The campaign trail brought National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota to Guadalajara this week.

This Sunday, 20 years will have passed since April 22, 1992 became an immortalized date in the minds of Tapatios.

Next time you go to the bank in Guadalajara, be sure to leave plenty of time to spare.