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2. Polish Downtown (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Polish Downtown was in every way "a classic ghetto"; in 1898, eleven contiguous precincts, which contained the heart of the neighborhood at Polonia Triangle, were 86.3% Polish, with one of these precincts reported as 99.9% Polish with only one non-Pole among 2,500 inhabitants.

3. Polonia Triangle - Wikipedia

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   Polonia Triangle (Polish: Trójkąt Polonijny), or the Polish Triangle, is a plaza located in West Town, in what had been the historical Polish Downtown area of Chicago. A single-tiered fountain made of black iron with a bowl about nine feet in diameter is installed at its center.

4. Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   The street was once used as part of the route for the Polish Constitution Day Parade as well as Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to Chicago. Numerous Polish churches, shops, and cultural organizations such as the Copernicus Foundation, the Chopin Theatre, the Society for Arts, and the Polish Daily News still make their home along Milwaukee Avenue ...

5. Poles in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   A Polish store along Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago's Polish Village. Lincoln Park. Jozafatowo or Kaszubowo – The area around the parish of St. Josaphat's in Chicago which was initially heavily Cassubian; Lincoln Square. U Przemienienia – The area around the parish of Transfiguration; Avondale Chicago's Polish Village:

6. List of neighborhoods in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square 26th Street in Little Village A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.

7. Loop Retail Historic District - Wikipedia

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   However Chicago evolved and by the 1920s, commuter suburbs began to have significant retail districts. [6] After 1950, suburban development reduced the role of the Loop's daily significance to many Chicagoans as downtown retail sales slipped. However, the Magnificent Mile kept a luxury shopping district close to the central business district. [8]