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  2. History of Chinese Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Chinese American Museum of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) seeks to advance the appreciation of Chinese American culture through exhibitions, education, and research and to preserve the past, present, and future of Chinese Americans primarily in the American Midwest. [1] The museum opened in 2005 in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood.

  4. Chinatown, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's Chinatown celebrated the 100th anniversary of its relocation in 2012. While Chinese people in Chicago had been relatively welcomed by the locals in the past, the renewal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1892, in tandem with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, brought a significant amount of discrimination to the Chinese population. [27]

  5. Chinese Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870 is a 2012 book by Huping Ling, published by Stanford University Press. It discusses the Chinese in Chicago . The primary thesis of the book is that the Chinese immigration to Chicago is transnational .

  6. West Argyle Street Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Hip Sing Association, a Chinese cultural group, moved its Chicago offices to Argyle Street in 1971, [9] and by 1974 Wong and the Hip Sing Association owned 80% of the three-block stretch on Argyle. Wong had an accident and broke both hips, leaving him unable to follow through on his plans.

  7. Wu Hung - Wikipedia

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    Wu Hung (Chinese: 巫鸿; family name: Wu) is an art historian and Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. [1] He has also taught at Harvard University and worked as an adjunct faculty curator at the Smart Museum of Art . [ 2 ]

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  9. Pui Tak Center - Wikipedia

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    The Pui Tak Center (Chinese: 培 德 中心; Jyutping: pui4 dak1 zung1 sam1; Cantonese Yale: Pùihdāk Jūngsām; pinyin: Péidé Zhōngxīn; lit. 'cultivating virtue center'), formerly known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, is a building located in Chicago's Chinatown.