The Chinatown Gate in Chinatown, Chicago, Illinois
The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the near South Side (located in the Armour Square community area), centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and is an example of an American Chinatown, or ethnic-Chinese neighborhood. According to the 2000 Census, Chicago Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas has 68,021 Chinese.
It is not to be confused with an area sometimes called “New Chinatown”, which is on the North Side around Argyle Street, and which attracts a larger number of people of Southeast Asian heritage.