Chicago's Chinatown: A Case Study

I enjoyed reading your post. I agree with you that Chinatowns provide immigrants a way of making the transition of assimilating easier. Chinatowns also provide Chinese with urban neighborhoods, anonymity, and safety (Healey & O’Brien, 2015, p. 257).
To answer your question, I have been to a Chinatown in Chicago a few years ago. I do not feel that everything I saw is how China is resembled on television. The Chinatown that I had gone to was only about a block of nothing but Chinese stores and Chinese workers. There are a few things that I feel would be found in China, such as skinned ducks hanging in restaurant store windows and a lot of signs written in Chinese. Other than these things, I feel that it was like the streets a few blocks down not in “Chinatown”.
If so, what?
Here is a website that provides some images of Chicago’s Chinatown that I was talking about