Chicago’s Historic Japanese Neighborhood — And Why It Disappeared
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,
August 23, 202013m 48s
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<p>While the <i>Curious City Scavenger Hunt: Chicago Eats Edition</i> continues to take you all across the city, we’re pulling stories from our archive that dive into the history of Chicago’s neighborhoods. <span style="font-family: inherit;">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.”</span></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CuriousCityPodcast/~4/NFbvnf26YK8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>