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Soon after the establishment of the Second Polish Republic, a consulate was opened in Chicago on June 1, 1920, with Zygmunt Nowicki [] being the first consul. After the United States recognized the Provisional Government of National Unity (later becoming the communist Polish People's Republic) over the Polish government-in-exile in 1945, the previous representatives refused to hand over the ...
Additionally, a section aimed at Chicago's large Góral community appears, titled "The Highlander Chronicle" or Kronika podhalańska in Polish is published every Wednesday in the Dziennik Związkowy. The newspaper is a subsidiary of the Polish National Alliance, a Polish-American fraternal organization. The current president of the PNA is Frank ...
Most of Chicago's Góral community is concentrated on Chicago's Southwest Side along Archer Avenue where the headquarters, also known as the "Highlander Home" ("Dom Podhalan" in Polish) is located. The Highlander House is styled as a Carpathian chalet in the traditional Zakopane Style of Architecture .
Imotsko Polje (lit. ' Field of Imotski ') is a polje (karstic field) located on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina near the city of Imotski.The larger part is in Herzegovina, while the Croatian part is in the inner Dalmatia region, and is the second largest in the country, covering an area of 95 square kilometres (37 sq mi).
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.
Winter Storm Iliana was the second storm to hit the U.S. in one week, bringing snow and ice from parts of the Midwest to the Great Lakes and Northeast the week of February 10, 2025.
[12] Victoria Granacki in Polish Downtown wrote, "Nearly all Polish undertakings of any consequence in the U.S. during that time either started or were directed from this part of Chicago's near northwest side". [8] Polish Downtown, particularly Pulaski Park, served as Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski's base of operations. [13]
The good news is the unrelenting blasts from wintry punches should come to an end this week, meteorologists say.