Tonight hundreds of Chinatown residents are prepared to confront their elected officials with requests they say have been ignored for years. 

The number of Asian Americans in and around Chinatown grew by 60 percent between 1990 and 2000, and community leaders say that growth has continued.. What hasn’t grown, they say, are community resources.

Tonight at a town hall meeting, residents will renew requests for a bigger public library, a long-promised recreational field house, and a high school. C.W. Chan of the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community says it looks like their attempts to organize are getting some attention.

CHAN: In the past we had town meeting that were attended by different elected officials, but I would say this time in terms of representation from state legislators, we have more than our previous attempts.

Chan ultimately wants the concentration of South Side Chinese Americans to be in one political district. He says they have been sliced up into into multiple districts, which dilutes their power.