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Both immigrant Poles and Americans of Polish heritage live in Chicago, Illinois. They are a part of worldwide Polonia, the Polish term for the Polish Diaspora outside of Poland. Poles in Chicago have contributed to the economic, social and cultural well-being of Chicago from its very beginning.
The second biggest population of Polish people (ca. 1,5 million) lives outside Poland – in Chicago. How was it happened?
27 kwi 2020 · With a history of Polish migration dating back to the 1830s – and more than one million people of Polish descent in its metropolitan area today – Chicago is the traditional capital of the Polish diaspora in the United States.
The first Polish emigrants to Chicago were noblemen who had fled Poland after the Polish-Russian War of 1830–1831. They arrived with ill-fated plans of establishing a “New Poland” in Illinois. Among these early settlers was John Napieralski, believed to have been the first Pole in Chicago.
20 lut 2023 · To understand Polish immigration to Chicago, we first need to understand a bit about the history of Poland itself. In October, 1795, representatives from Austria, Prussia and Russia met to divide up the lands that had been the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.
4 paź 2016 · This Polish American Heritage Month, learn the history of how Polish people came to Chicago and how they thrived so far from home. Some of the first Polish immigrants came to Chicago in the 1850s. They settled all over Chicago, including neighborhoods near the stockyards and steel mills on the South Side.
18 lis 2019 · Poles appeared in the frontier settlement of Chicago as early as the 1830s. The formative migration, however, began some twenty years later and culminated with the creation of St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish in 1867. Over the next sixty years, Chicago’s Polonia expanded across the cityscape.
