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Chinese-American Museum of Chicago, Chicago

A museum with exhibits on Chinese-American culture, history, and the community's contributions to American society.

A museum with exhibits on Chinese-American culture, history, and the community's contributions to American society. Long closed due to a fire, the museum finally reopened 25 September 2010.


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About Chinese-American Museum of Chicago

 238 West 23rd Street, Chicago, IL, United States

 +1 312-949-1000

 www.ccamuseum.org

Chinese-American Museum of Chicago and Nearby Sights on Map

Chicago Chinatown

The Chinatown shops are very fun, especially for gifts, but if you tire of knicknacks and knockoffs, Bridgeport has a handful of very eccentric and interesting offerings

Dr Sun Yat Sen Museum

A one-room museum good for some Kuomintang nostalgia

Pui Tak

A historical landmark building notable for its traditional Chinese architecture now houses a Christian community center

Chinese American Veterans Memorial

A small memorial to Chicago Chinatown residents who served the United States in foreign wars

Chicago Chinese Cultural Institute

Offers an assortment of services and events, such as: neighborhood tours, film screenings, language instruction, and cooking classes

Chinatown Square

This main square is a Chinatown landmark, with some cheesy pagoda-like structures as well as animal sculptures of the Chinese zodiac

Sun Yat Sen Park

A little out of the way, but a nice small park and a great place to relax in the shade on a hot summer day

Nine Dragon Wall

A smaller semblance of the ancient glazed tile Nine Dragon Wall located in Beijing's Behai Park

Ping Tom Memorial Park

A riverside park with a Chinese touch, including a riverside Chinese pavilion and a bamboo garden

Hilliard Homes

In the architecture of these massive public housing projects lies the South Side's tongue-in-cheek answer to the North Side's Marina City - in fact, they were built by the same architect, Bertrand Goldberg