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Chinatown is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, along S. Wentworth Avenue between Cermak Road and W. 26th St.Over a third of Chicago's Chinese population resides in this ethnic enclave, making it one of the largest concentrations of Chinese-Americans in the United States. [3]
Vietnamese and Thai restaurants at the corner of Argyle Street and Broadway. Chicago restaurateur Jimmy Wong bought property in the area in the 1960s and planned its rebirth as New Chinatown. He envisioned a mall with pagodas, trees and reflecting ponds to replace the empty storefronts. [8]
Like the other eight stations of the Dan Ryan Branch, Cermak–Chinatown was built by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, looking identical to 95th/Dan Ryan. Customers outside the station can also see Chinese character masks of Chinese opera and theater productions on the walls. Cermak–Chinatown is open 24/7 as part of the service on the Red Line. In ...
Chinatown Square, on 45 acres (180,000 m 2) of reclaimed land from a former railroad yard, houses mostly restaurants, retail space, boutiques, banks, clinics, beauty shops, and a handful of offices. This outdoor mall is the largest Chinese mall in the US east of San Francisco and west of New York City .
Chinatown Station may refer to transit stations in: United States Canal Street station (New York City Subway) , a subway station that had Chinese characters meaning “Chinatown”.
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The Chicago Transit Authority Green Line, the "alley el" [11] runs above the alley between Wabash and State, with Roosevelt Road and 35th Street being the nearest stations since the Cermak stop was removed in 1978. [12] In 2011, plans were announced to build a new $50 million Cermak Station. [13]
54th/Cermak (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line station; Cermak–Chinatown (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line station; Cermak–McCormick Place (CTA station), a Chicago Transit Authority Green Line station