Vanished Chinatown Landmarks (Chicago, Illinois)
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"...Several parts of the old South Side Chinatown have been lost. One is the group of buildings in the 150 block of West 22nd Street [Cermak Ave.], between LaSalle Street (itself now replaced by a freeway ramp) and Wentworth Avenue. That block was completely demolished by two events: by the widening of 22nd Street for the 1933 World Fair and then by the construction of the Cermak feeder ramps to the I-55/I-90/I-94 freeway system in the 1960s. During the 1920s, however, the blocks east of Wentworth were integral parts of Chinatown.
Among the most important buildings in that area were that of the Parisian Novelty Co., which sold its building for demolition in 1927 when 22nd Street was widened, and the Chinese Merchandise Mart or Emporium, a large Art Deco structure that was built near or on the site of the former Parisian Novelty building. The Parisian Novelty Co. is interesting not only because the company still exists (it is a leading manufacturer of corporate promotional items) but because it employed a number of Chinese-American workers in the 1920s, a period when most historians say that Chinese-Americans never worked in factories. The Chinese Emporium may have been the largest souvenir/curio shop in the history of Chicago's Chinatown..."
www.ccamuseum.org/index.php/en/research/places-map/182-...
Among the most important buildings in that area were that of the Parisian Novelty Co., which sold its building for demolition in 1927 when 22nd Street was widened, and the Chinese Merchandise Mart or Emporium, a large Art Deco structure that was built near or on the site of the former Parisian Novelty building. The Parisian Novelty Co. is interesting not only because the company still exists (it is a leading manufacturer of corporate promotional items) but because it employed a number of Chinese-American workers in the 1920s, a period when most historians say that Chinese-Americans never worked in factories. The Chinese Emporium may have been the largest souvenir/curio shop in the history of Chicago's Chinatown..."
www.ccamuseum.org/index.php/en/research/places-map/182-...
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Coordinates: 41°51'10"N 87°37'53"W
- A Century of Progress site 2 km
- Former Site of the Union Stock Yards 4.3 km
- World's Columbian Exposition site 6.9 km
- Former Path of Ogden Avenue 7.5 km
- Former Hawthorne Works 9 km
- Clarke 33 km
- Maynard 35 km
- Original Tolleston 36 km
- The Patch 37 km
- Original Liverpool 42 km
- Chinatown 0.2 km
- Near South Side 1 km
- The Hub 1 km
- Armour Square 1.4 km
- Illinois Institute of Technology 2.1 km
- Pilsen 2.1 km
- Bridgeport 2.4 km
- Douglas 2.4 km
- Lower West Side 2.5 km
- Bronzeville 3.3 km