Clark & Division: Japanese Americans on Chicago’s Near North Side, 1940s-1960s - Part 3

Keiko Harada Ohtaka
Clark Street and Division Street bring back so many great memories. They were very busy streets with lots of traffic. Our family lived on Clark Street right above Toguri’s Mercantile Company. We played outside on the sidewalk, daily, with our friends without any supervision from our parents. No one would think of letting the kids do that today!
No family we knew had a car so we walked everywhere, unless it was outside of the neighborhood. Then we took the streetcar, bus or subway. Ogden Elementary School was about ten blocks away and ...