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The Polish Museum of America in the PRCUA building designed by John S. Flizikowski is in the old Polish Downtown. Polish Downtown was Chicago's oldest and most prominent Polish settlement. Polish Downtown was the political, cultural and social capital of Poles in Chicago and of other Polish Americans throughout North America. [1]
Chicago is also host to several Polish folk dances ensembles that teach traditions to Polish-American children. Chicago celebrates its Polish Heritage every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in Jefferson Park, attended by such political notables as President George H. W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Hadassah Lieberman ...
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 Polish Museum of America is located within the headquarters of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America.Designed by John S. Flizikowski, a notable Polish-American architect, construction began on the building in July 1912.
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.
U.S. cities and communities with large Polish American populations are largely concentrated in the Upper Midwestern United States, Chicago metropolitan area and the New York metropolitan area, with Wisconsin accounting for the largest number of communities with large Polish populations.
The letter was signed by more than 60 Polish American Wisconsinites, including Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza, Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz, Milwaukee County ...
These are articles on Polish Americans in Chicago and Polish American history of Chicago. Pages in category "Polish-American culture in Chicago" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total.