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The Chicago metropolitan area has a large Indian American population. As of 2023, there were 255,523 Indian Americans (alone or in combination) living in the Chicago area, accounting for more than 2.5% of the total population, making them the largest Asian subgroup in the metropolitan region [1] [2] and the second-largest Indian American population among US metropolitan areas, after the ...
Shien Biau Woo became the first Asian American statewide officer in the Northeast, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. Leana Wen, prominent Asian American and public health leader, currently Commissioner of Health in Baltimore. David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR) Lily Wu, mayor of Wichita, Kansas
Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [7] [8] Coral Wong Pietsch – United States Army Reserve Brigadier General, first female Asian American general officer; Suzanne Vares-Lum (born 1967 - United States Army Major-General, served in Iraq War
The Chicago metropolitan area has an ethnic Chinese population. While historically small in comparison to populations on the coasts, the community is rapidly expanding. As of 2023, there are 78,547 Chinese Americans who live in Chicago, comprising 2.9% of the city's population, along with over 150,000 Chinese in the greater Chicago area - making Chicago's Chinese community the 8th largest ...
Koreans in the Chicago area have largely migrated from the traditional ports of entry on Chicago's North Side, such as Albany Park. Indeed, by 1991 Census observers had noted that 62% of Koreans in the metropolitan already lived outside of Chicago, the third largest share among Asian ethnicities after Indians (72%) and Japanese (64%).
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Asian Americans in Chicago, Illinois. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Jean Hardisty – activist who founded Political Research Associates and Chicago's first battered women's shelter [13] Mary Morten – activist, documentary filmmaker, and author [14] Pidgeon Pagonis – advocate for intersex people, documentary filmmaker, and youth leadership coordinator at Advocates for Informed Choice [15] [16] [17]
The racial makeup of the city in 2020 was 29.2% Black, 35.9% White, 7.0% Asian, 0.1% Native American or Alaska Native, 10.8% from two or more races, and 15.8% from some other race. [2] The ethnic makeup of the population is 29.8% Hispanic or Latino , with 70.2% belonging to a non-Hispanic or Latino background. [ 3 ]