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Chicago’s Historic Japanese Neighborhood — And Why It Disappeared
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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Aug 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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.”
Released:
Aug 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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