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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
This isn't the case in Chicago. Our Chinatown is growing stronger by the year. For some reason Chicago has very strong ties to China (was one of only two cities in the US visited by Hu Jintao last year) and Chinatown here is overflowing into Bridgeport and Bronzeville and seeing highrise proposals right now.
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Chinatown isn't really growing "stronger"... it's more that its footprint is expanding from the traditional boundaries and into much of Bridgeport. There's also a sizable Vietnamese area on Broadway north of Lakeview, but other than that (as far as East Asian ethnic communities go), the traditional Asian neighborhoods in the city are getting weaker. Koreans have been moving from Albany Park out to Niles, Glenview, and out west to Naperville for about 15 years now, and most new immigrants head straight there. The Japanese are well-established in the northwest suburbs from Elk Grove Village to Schaumburg, but even they are moving even farther out to places like Crystal Lake and Algonquin.