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Looking to escape the anti-Chinese violence that had broken out on the west coast, the first Chinese people arrived in Chicago after 1869 when the First transcontinental railroad was completed. [4] Aside from ethnic violence, governments on the west coast had begun to systematically target Chinese people, such as a 1870 San Francisco ordinance ...
The Chicago metropolitan area has an ethnic Chinese population. While historically small in comparison to populations on the coasts, the community is rapidly expanding. As of 2023, there are 78,547 Chinese Americans who live in Chicago, comprising 2.9% of the city's population, along with over 150,000 Chinese in the greater Chicago area - making Chicago's Chinese community the 8th largest ...
West Argyle Street Historic District (also known as Little Saigon, [1] New Chinatown, and Asia on Argyle) is a historic district in northern Uptown, Chicago, Illinois.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 2010.
South Asians had been present in colonial America since at least 1635 with the recording of an East Indian man named "Tony" in the Colony of Virginia.They were brought over as indentured servants and sometimes slaves who eventually assimilated into the dominant white and black American populations.
1962: Wing Luke becomes the first Asian American to hold elected office (Seattle City Council) in the State of Washington. 1963 : Rocky Fellers , a Filipino American boy band is first Asian American to hit Billboard 100 ."Killer Joe" reached No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1963, No. 1 in both New York and Los Angeles, CA.
After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations.Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also contributed to the labor supply.
The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [4] [10] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. [2] [6] On the journey, they were suspected of being runaway slaves and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver. [10] [11]
The young family moved to Chicago in March 1845, eight years after the city's incorporation. [1] [7] Committed abolitionists, they were drawn by Chicago's large anti-slavery movement. [5] On the journey, they were suspected of being runaway slaves and detained, but were freed on the appeal of their stagecoach driver. [7] [8]