Chicago's Polish downtown
(2004)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/977.3110049185/GRANACKI,V
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PUBLISHED
Charleston, SC : Arcadia, [2004]
DESCRIPTION
128 pages : chiefly illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780738532868, 073853286X, 9781531618599, 1531618596, 9780738532868
LANGUAGE
English
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Polish Downtown is Chicago's oldest Polish settlement and was the capital of American Polonnia from the 1870s through the first half of the 20th century. 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. Illustrates the first 75 years of this influential Polish neighborhood