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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Phyllis Cha

‘It’s really a symbol for unity’: Chicago’s Chinatown gears up to celebrate Moon Festival Saturday

The Mid-Autumn Festival will offer tastings of mooncakes like these bean paste and lotus paste baby mooncakes from Chiu Quon Bakery in Uptown. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Chicagoans are invited to gaze at a movie and the moon during Saturday’s celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, in Chinatown.

“It’s really a symbol for unity, for togetherness, for cherishing each other,” said Hong Chen, director of the Chinese Language and Literature Program at Loyola University Chicago.

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