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

David Marasco, a baseball historian, has made an astonishing discovery. In 1914, the New York Times reported that Jimmy Callahan,… 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)

In early 1927 a major change occurred: 22nd Street, later renamed Cermak Avenue, was widened by as much as 25… Read more 1927: The widening of Cermak and the colonizing of Wentworth