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Originally Posted by Rail Claimore

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.

Chicago's chinatown population has grown 24% in the last 10 years. Here's a good article about it.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/...aspx?id=198558