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Dziennik Związkowy (Polish pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʑɛɲɲik zvjɔ̃ˈskɔvɨ], Alliance Daily) or Polish Daily News, is the largest and the oldest Polish language newspaper in the United States. Established in 1908 in Chicago as an organ of the Polish National Alliance from whose headquarters at Polonia Triangle in Chicago's Polish Downtown the ...
Much of 1950s Chicago Polish youth culture was captured in the 1972 musical Grease, in which the majority of characters had Polish surnames (Zuko, Dumbrowski, Kenickie); Jim Jacobs, who conceived Grease, based the musical on his real-life experiences in a Chicago high school. Much of the Polish-American nature of the musical was discarded when ...
Dziennik Ludowy was one of the five major Polish-language newspapers in Chicago in the first half of 20th century. [15] All of them tried to integrate Polish immigrants in the city, but they promoted a different political view. They were divided over the issues of ideology, organizing of immigrants, and the role of Catholic Church. [12]
There are 10 million Americans of Polish descent in the U.S. today. Polish Americans have always been the largest group of Slavic origin in the United States. Historians divide Polish American immigration into three big waves, the largest lasting from 1870 to 1914, a second after World War II, and a third after Poland's regime
In 1987, about eight years after he came to the United States from Poland, Marek Predki and six other people decided to bring a Polish tradition to their new country by embarking on a pilgrimage ...
The history of Polish immigration to the United States can be divided into three stages, beginning with the first stage in the colonial era down to 1870, small numbers of Poles and Polish subjects came to America as individuals or in small family groups, and they quickly assimilated and did not form separate communities, with the exception of Panna Maria, Texas founded in the 1850s.
The crack of a distant branch returned me to the damp Polish trees. Our host inhaled deeply and muttered, “Back to work.” People were coming to Europe escaping autocrats, terrorists and gangs.
The Polish character of the neighborhood visibly predominated over others in the area, as there was an extensive network of Polish churches, businesses, cultural institutions and fraternal organizations. The following neighborhoods of Chicago were once a part of Polish Downtown: Pulaski Park, Chicago; River West, Chicago; Bucktown, Chicago