The Chinatown Gate in Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois.

The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the near South Side (located in the Armour Square community area), centered on and around Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood. The Chinatown gate in the Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... The Chinatown gate in the Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ... Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... Armour Square, located on the southwest side of Chicago, is one of the 77 officially defined Chicago community areas. ... New York City is home to one of the largest Chinatowns in North America, and is centered around Canal Street in the borough of Manhattan. ...

It is not to be confused with an area sometimes called "New Chinatown", which is on the North Side around Argyle Street, and which has a larger number of Southeast Asians. Skyline of Uptown, looking northeast Uptown is a diverse neighborhood located north of Chicagos downtown. ...

Commerce

Chicago's Chinatown is home to a number of Chinese restaurants, gift shops, grocery stores, Chinese-style pharmacies, as well as a number of services that cater to a Chinese-speaking audience--most specifically, a Cantonese-speaking audience. It is a source of goods as well as a community hub for traditional-minded Chinese in the city and suburbs, as well as a popular destination for tourists and locals alike. Toms Diner, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to be consumed on the premises. ... A grocer is a dealer in staple foodstuffs -- meats, produce, dairy products, etc. ... Pharmacy (from the Greek φάρμακον = drug) is the profession of compounding and dispensing medication. ... Cantonese (粵語/粤语, lit. ... A community is an amalgamation of living things that share an environment. ... A tradition is a story or a custom that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation, originally without the need for a writing system. ... City lights from space. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...

Landmarks and attractions

• The Chinatown Mural, a mural showing the history of Chinese immigrants in America
• Ping Tom Park, with Chinese gardens along the Chicago River
• Chinatown Square, with sculptures of animals in the Chinese zodiac
• Wentworth Avenue (永活街), with shopping, restaurants, and landmarks, including the Chinatown gate
• Pui Tak Center (培德中心) was designated a Chicago Landmark at December 1, 1993. It was the On Leong (安良) Merchants Association Building.

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History

Chinese immigrants began arriving in Chicago in the late 1870s as ex-railroad workers faced increasing discrimination in the Western states. The population rose slowly, until the communist revolution in China coupled with a relaxation on immigration laws brought on a surge in immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s, leading to the formation of a Chinatown. By the year 1970, Chicago ranked fourth in Chinese population in American cities. Overseas Chinese (華僑 in pinyin: huáqiáo, or 華胞 huábāo, or 僑胞 qiáobāo) are ethnic Chinese people who live outside of the China. ... Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... The Chinese Civil War was a conflict in China between the Kuomintang (The Nationalist Party; The Nationalists; KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC). ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... New York City is home to one of the largest Chinatowns in North America, and is centered around Canal Street in the borough of Manhattan. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... This is a list of cities in the fifty United States as well as U.S.-owned territories (Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) and the District of Columbia. ...

In the earliest days, Chinese settlement in Chicago centered around Clark Street and Van Buren Street, the north end of a heterogeneous "anything goes" part of town called the Levee District. With time the area became infamous as a vice district (mostly for non-Chinese sections). As the city's business district grew, the area became too expensive for settling immigrants, who found themselves centering around the Cermak and Wentworth Avenue area. It was then populated mostly by Italians and Croatians, due to the relatively inexpensive leases compared with other neighborhoods. Vice is the opposite of virtue. ...

Today, many immigrants from mainland China and Taiwan make Chinatown their home as they become acclimated to the culture of their new home.

External link

• Website of Chicago's Chinatown Museum Foundation
• Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce
• Chinese Christion Union Church
• Chicago-Chinatown.com
• ChicagoChinatown.com
• Chicago Chinatown 5K & Youth Run