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Originally Posted by Docere
I'm not saying they only became German because of the post-war immigrants; rather they likely went there because of the German presence. I'm saying there must have been some postwar immigration if there's still a "German" character today.
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i didn't say that lincoln square has a "german" character today, i said it still has a lingering "german-american" character.
but it's fairly faint (and fading). if you visited my neighborhood and Maifest or Oktoberfest weren't going on, and you didn't happen to stumble upon one of the handful of german restaurants/bars still left, you wouldn't walk away with much of a "german" or even "german-american" impression of lincoln square these days.
it's also been slow-track gentrifying for the past 2 decades. there are far more thai, sushi, mexican, vietnamese, indian, etc. places these days (or at last there were until very, very recently
) than there are german restaurants. german food has
MASSIVELY fallen out of favor with the US palate over the past several generations. which is a damn shame IMO, because i freaking love german food, even if it doesn't typically rate 8 billion on the scoville scale.
i do not know the extent of post-war german immigration to lincoln square, but i don't think it was anything terribly special. certainly nothing like post-war polish immigration to chicago's polish nabes.