CP photo: Jared Wickerham Chinatown Inn on Third Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh, the location of the city s lost Chinatown
Pittsburgh’s Chinatown was something I only heard about when talking to other young Asian Americans in the city. It was folkloric, despite being a part of Pittsburgh’s history and, by virtue of being Asian American in Pittsburgh, our history. When I was Downtown, I sometimes caught a glimpse of the facade of what I would later learn was Chinatown Inn, but as a transplant to the city with a questionable sense of direction, I was never able to find it again.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks about Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson announcing his retirement during a news conference at the Chicago Police Department s headquarters on November 7, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois. Lightfoot used more than $281 million in federal COVID-19 relief on additional police funding.
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