'Our Chicago: Asian Voices' celebrates stories of local AAPI community

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ABC 7 Chicago is celebrating the stories of the AAPI community and sharing their voices in this year's half hour special, 'Our Chicago: Asian Voices.'

. CEO, Paul Luu, and COO, Jered Pruitt, sit down with Judy to explain the need behind this new program. Change InSight analyzes, disseminates, researches and publishes data around the unique needs of immigrant communities, focusing on social determinants of health data. With the AAPI community in Chicago nearly doubling between 2000 and 2019 , Luu and Pruitt see the program giving every ethnic group within the AAPI community their own unique voice.

, into an official establishment space. They're adding more unique dishes to their delicious southern Indian menu and hoping to bring more diversity to Chicago's food scene. Thattu is scheduled to open its doors in the fall of 2022 in Avondale., a Filipino fusion restaurant in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood. They talk about how they went from a quaint café with plastic cups and little seating room, to a Michelin-star Filipino restaurant.

 

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