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"There's apparently only ~2000 Uzbek-Americans in all of northern IL" where did you get this number? does that include chicago, because i live in Chicago area
by oa335 2mo ago
"There's apparently only ~2000 Uzbek-Americans in all of northern IL"
where did you get this number? does that include chicago, because i live in Chicago area ... seems low.
- RajT88 2mo agohttps://www.neilsberg.com/insights/lists/uzbek-population-in-cook-county-il-by-city/ https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/lists/uzbek-population-in... Figuring some fudge factor too. It could be low - it's hard to find numbers for nationality counts for central Asians broken down by state.
- oa335 2mo agothat websites estimates are definitely too low - e.g. there are definitely more than 40 Uzbek people in Chicago... I've been to 3 uzbek restaurants in Chicago proper myself.
- RajT88 2mo agoBroadly (in another comment I made) I think I've made sense of it. Regardless of the real population, it's probably not just the Uzbek population sustaining these places. That most likely wouldn't be viable. My wife's restaurant for example targets a nationality that is wayyyy more numerous (not Mexicans; that'd be easy enough), and it's tough for us to stay profitable.