Our sales are not back to pre-pandemic.” Triple Crown is a family-owned restaurant that has been around in Chinatown for over 20 years and stayed with the same landlord. “These little grants help they’re not going to solve all the problems overnight. “We won some grants, but there was a leaking ship, we had a hole, we’re trying to bail out,” said Spencer Ng, Triple Crown restaurant owner.
Congress announced a Restaurant Revitalization Fund with the Small Business Administration to help Chinatown businesses that managed to stay open. Many businesses were forced to close, and those that stayed open still cannot return to the pre-pandemic revenue. When you visit Chinatown, the first thing you see is a large gate with symbols that in English translate to “ The World is for all.” But because of the virus’s origins, many people across the City were hesitant to visit the neighborhood. It has always been a magnet for tourists and a special place for locals with tasty food, karaoke bars, markets, and shops. in 2020.Ĭhicago’s Chinatown is a historic neighborhood established more than 100 years ago. The statistic also indicates that anti-Asian hate crime increased by 77% across the U.S. The same year, the United States Department of Justice released the 2020 Hate Crime Statistic, in which 62% of offenders were motivated by race, ethnicity, or ancestry. In 2020 former President Donald Trump continuously called COVID-19: the “ Chinese Virus” ‘ Kung flu” and claimed that it was not racist because it first started in Wuhan, China.
Since the pandemic, Chinatown businesses have faced massive revenue loss and xenophobia from people calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus.” Two years later, Chinatown had still not fully recovered.
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