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Chinatown
Bolstered by a second wave of immigration in the ’50s and ’60s, the area has developed two distinct sections. “Old Chinatown” runs down Wentworth Street, “New Chinatown” down Archer Avenue. »
New Year of the Rabbit
Spanning three blocks on Wentworth, the Lunar New Year Parade rang in one of the most important holidays on the Chinese calendar, melding traditional symbols with local politics and color. »
Hong Kong Café Chic: Chinatown’s newest restaurant boasts an expansive menu and trendy design
Entering Sweet Station, Chinatown Square’s newest Hong Kong café-chic restaurant, is like walking into a sleek, glossy 3-D rendering at a design contest. Complete with private flat-screen TVs beside most booths, custom design elements, and a stylish, young pan-Asian crowd, Sweet Station is the type of place one imagines Quentin Tarantino might have drawn... »
Night and Day: 24-hour dining on the South Side
This time last year, the Weekly came out with its first guide to 24-hour restaurants on the South Side. In that issue, we covered classics like Izola’s, Depot, and the original Maxwell Street Polish stands. We’re back this year with a few more selections from the South Side nightscape. From the welcoming diners of... »
Best of the South Side 2009: Chinatown
Chicago’s Chinatown lacks the characteristic bustle and grit of a major city Chinatown. The streets are broad and the sidewalks are crowded more with tourists than with old women pushing carts of chickens and bruised greens. This Chinatown is young; it developed around the intersection of Cermak and Wentworth when a red light district... »
Shanghai Comes to Chicago: Lao Shanghai dishes up timeless elegance
In general, Chinese restaurants put little stock in looking good, whatever the quality of the food they serve. Speaking with the sole (and vague) qualification of being Chinese myself, I suspect this is a simple reflection of the utilitarian preferences of Chinese diners, who seem to have an almost calculated disregard for such incidentals... »
Droves and Fishes: Lawrence’s Fisheries satisfies the masses with frogs’ legs and fried fish
Driving north on Canal Street near Chinatown, one is instinctively drawn to a towering sign that gleams yellow in the pale orange sky. It is not a pair of golden arches, but a rectangular display advertising Lawrence’s Fisheries, a beacon of light and a hub of activity in an otherwise deserted part of town... »
Best of the South Side 2008: Chinatown
Chicago’s Chinatown district has changed a substantial amount since the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the beginnings of a Chicago Chinatown were born. In the late 1800s, most of the Chinese immigrants in Chicago lived near Clark and Van Buren in downtown Chicago. However, Chinese-Americans faced substantial housing discrimination in Chicago, and established... »
