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  2. Poles in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Fourth Partition (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film’s creators present economical and historical reasons for the Polish migration to the United States. The film starts in 1608, at the Jamestown colony, when the first Poles arrive. From there, it talks about the first large Polish settlement in Panna Maria, Texas, and Chicago, as the center for Polish culture in America.

  4. History of Poles in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 change in 1989.

  5. Polish American voters seen as key to winning by both Harris ...

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    Polish immigrants began arriving in the U.S. at the turn of the last century to work in coal mines. Those who ended up in Pennsylvania worked in places like Luzerne County in northeastern ...

  6. Polish Americans - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. From Kansas City to Europe, people of good will step in to ...

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    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.

  8. Pilgrimage marks chance for Polish Catholics to pass along ...

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    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 ...

  9. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America - Wikipedia

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    The Polish Peasant in Europe and America is a book by Florian Znaniecki and William I. Thomas, considered to be one of the classics of sociology.The book is a study of Polish immigrants to the United States and their families, based on personal documents, and was published in five volumes in the years 1918 to 1920.