The Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, is on the South Side centered on Cermak and Wentworth Avenues, and located in the Armour Square community area.
Chicago Fire Department’s Engine 8 Company firehouse was used in the 1991 Ron Howard film Backdraft. Beside the number 8, Engine 8 has the Chinese symbol for Number 8.
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