Chinatown’s beloved Ping Tom Park opened in 1999, after three decades since Chinatown’s only two parks were demolished. In the… Read more 1999: The opening of Ping Tom Park

In 1913 a white Chicago woman named Alice Davis Sing was alleged to have found a more direct way of… Read more 1913: Bad East-West marriages II: Alice Davis Sing murders Charles Sing

1915:  Lai Tin’s almost-tryout with the Chicago White Sox David Marasco, a baseball historian, has made an astonishing discovery.  In… Read more 1915: Lai Tin’s almost-tryout with the Chicago White Sox

The Midwest saw much less anti-Chinese violence than the West in the 19th and early 20th centuries, even though cities… Read more 1916 Chicago’s first conviction of a white man for murdering a Chinese

In the same vein as the 1892 description (see above) is a comment by T.C. Fan 範定九, a Chinese sociologist… Read more 1926: The cleanness of Chinese restaurants in Chicago (and New York)