Chicago Chinatown
February 2nd 2022 The first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived around the 1849 Gold Rush. As the Chinese population moved eastward over the next few decades, along with the trans continental railroad, Chicago’s first Chinese community emerged downtown, around Clark and West Van Buren Streets.
But as Chicago’s population swelled from 500,000 to over 1 million between 1880 and 1890, the growing Chinese community
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