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Chicago’s Historic Japanese Neighborhood — And Why It Disappeared
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:13:48
Publish Date: 2020-08-23 03:30:00
Description:

While the Curious City Scavenger Hunt: Chicago Eats Edition continues to take you all across the city, we’re pulling stories from our archive that dive into the history of Chicago’s neighborhoods. This week, a story from 2017 takes us to Lake View, which once had a thriving Japanese community — but it fell victim to a push for assimilation. As one Japanese-American puts it: “You had to basically be unseen.”
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