What happened to Chicago's Japanese community?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Lakeview 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.”

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1:05.8	Hey, I'm Catherine Nagasawa. When Irene Brown was a kid in the 90s, her family used to take trips to Chicago's Japan town.
1:13.8	At least, that's what her mom used to call it.
1:16.1	It was a cluster of Japanese restaurants and businesses on the north side in the Lakeview neighborhood
1:20.4	near Belmont and Clark Streets.
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