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West Argyle Street Historic District (also known as Little Saigon, [1] New Chinatown, and Asia on Argyle) is a historic district in northern Uptown, Chicago, Illinois.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 2010.
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]
Residents were served by three restaurants, a theater, and a Chinese temple, or joss house. Buildings to the north were largely made of fireproof brick, while buildings to the south were made of wood. [6] [9] Chinatown organized its own volunteer fire brigade, due to an ordinance excluding the neighborhood from the city's fire district. [10]
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More than 130 firefighters responded to an apartment building fire in the Chinatown neighborhood that displaced 70 people and injured six. City officials ignored neighbors' warnings in Chinatown.
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 .
It would be the longest-running Chinese restaurant in the U.S. if founded in 1903, longer than Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte, Montana, which was founded in 1909 or 1911.