The pictorial history of Assyrian immigration to Chicago encompasses more than 100 years.
Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the evolution.
Following several waves of persecution in their homeland, these indigenous people of Mesopotamia continued to migrate to America, and now the largest concentration of them reside in Chicago.
Eventually, by the turn of the century, they began to reside in Chicago.
Their first pioneers came to the United States in the late 1800s.
The pictorial history of Assyrian immigration to Chicago encompasses more than 100 years