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jtown,man · #1 Posted **Mar 27, 2020, 10:58 PM**

A few pictures taken mostly just before we were ordered to stay home. Most pictures are from Chinatown to the Roosevelt/Michigan Avenue intersection with a few from downtown sprinkled in.

1. A crude map I was working on(I have since given up and used GIS to make it) showing the age of buildings in Chinatown.
Red=1939 and before(mostly between 1880-1890)
Green=1940-1969
Blue=1970-1999
Yellow=2000-2010

2. Wentworth Avenue. Almost completely dead.

3. Pui Tak Center- I believe this was the first building built in the neighborhood with traditional Chinese architecture mixed in.

jtown,man · #2 Posted **Mar 27, 2020, 11:06 PM**

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jtown,man · #3 Posted **Mar 27, 2020, 11:13 PM**

4. Chinatown Square. An outdoor shopping center built in the early 1990s. Before Corona(or...before it got really serious here)

5. Chinatown Square.

6. Chinatown Square- after outbreak.

7. Chinatown

8. Chinatown

9. Chinatown

jtown,man · #4 Posted **Mar 27, 2020, 11:35 PM**

10. Elaborate home in Chinatown.

11. Chinatown isn't some tourist trap, it's growing and has a decent amount of recent immigrants.

12. Chinatown.

13. Chinatown.

14. Chinatown.

15. Chinatown. This home was built in 1888, along with most of the other homes on its block. In fact, a large portion of the area south of Cermak and east of Princeton looks to have been built within a decade. I believe the area was Italian before transitioning to Chinese around 1920. The former Chinatown for Chicago was in the Loop.

16. At this point we are heading out of the Chinatown neighborhood and heading east/north towards Grant Park.

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18. Wabash looking north towards Trump.

19. Nema in the distance.

20. Paragon.

21. Downtown- dead. All the Loop pictures were taken in the morning on a workday.

22. Same.

23. Same.

24. Same.

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