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Rod Blagojevich [9] [10] was born in Chicago, Illinois, the second of two sons [11] of Serb immigrants from FPR Yugoslavia. His father, Rade B. Blagojevich, was an immigrant steel plant laborer from a village near Kragujevac, PR Serbia. [12] His mother, Mila, was a Herzegovinian Serb whose family was originally from Gacko, PR Bosnia and ...
Dragiša Kašiković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Кашиковић; 9 August 1932 – 19 June 1977) [1] was a Bosnian Serb writer who came to international renown after he and his nine-year-old stepdaughter were murdered by the State Security Administration (UDBA) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Christopher Kovacevich (Serbian: Христофор Ковачевић / Hristofor Kovačević; December 25, 1928 – August 18, 2010) was metropolitan bishop of Libertyville and Chicago in the Serbian Orthodox Church making him Primate of Serbian Orthodox Christians in America. He was also the first American-born bishop to serve a diocese of ...
The building Daniel O. Hill House was designed by architect Frederick Wainwright Perkins in 1906. [1] He initially designed the building for Silk merchant Daniel O. Hill. [2] The mansion started to operate as Chicago's Serbian American Museum in the year 1952 under the name Serbian Cultural Club.
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Serbian Americans in Illinois. Pages in category "Serbian-American culture in Illinois" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
During World War II, several provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia corresponding to the modern-day state of Serbia were occupied by the Axis Powers from 1941 to 1944. Most of the area was occupied by the Wehrmacht and was organized as separate territory under control of the German Military Administration in Serbia.
The Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia (German: Gebiet des Militärbefehlshabers in Serbien; Serbian: Подручје Војног заповедника у Србији, romanized: Područje vojnog zapovednika u Srbiji) was the area of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that was placed under a military government of occupation by the Wehrmacht following the invasion, occupation and ...
The Serbian National Defense Council (SND) (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска Народна Одбрана) is a Serb diaspora community organization whose goal is to protect Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian interests abroad. [1] It is based in Chicago (United States), and also has chapters in Toronto and Sydney .