Landmark
Chinatown
Dense enclave of Chinese-owned shops and temples built up by immigrant merchant associations.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Chinatown in Chicago opens on a single building and an April morning in 1988, when FBI agents and police climbed to its second floor. It goes back to the On Leong Merchants Association, which led Chinese Chicago to this street in 1912 and opened its pagoda-towered headquarters in 1928. Best heard from across the street, looking up at the terracotta dragons.
This audio guide was created using AI.