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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 ]
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.
The Chinatown in the Armour Square community area is not to be confused with the West Argyle Street Historic District, sometimes called "New Chinatown", which is on the North Side of Chicago in and around Argyle Street and hosts Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai and other Southeast Asian homes and businesses.
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Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago's Chinatown St. Simeon Mirotočivi, a Serbian Orthodox church located in East Side Greektown Fiesta Boricua on Paseo Boricua in Humboldt Park The Robie House in Hyde Park is a Frank Lloyd Wright design. The Gateway Theatre's Solidarity Tower in Jefferson Park is a replica of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.
A trip from east to west along Cermak Road traces a historical timeline of the Chicago area, from Yankee industrialists' masonry mansions in the Prairie District on the lakeshore, to mammoth printing presses and manufactories banking the Chicago River and Sanitary Canal, past immigrants' crowded brick housing, schools and churches, along boulevards of temporary middle class success and massive ...
Chinatown Square is bordered by Archer Avenue (2100S) to the south, Princeton Ave (300W) to the west, Wentworth Ave (200W)to the east, China Place (2000S) to the north. Just to the north of Chinatown Square is the Ping Tom Memorial Park on the Riverfront of the Chicago River .
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 ...