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Łukasz Kożuchowski: The fact that the biggest Polish city is Warsaw is quite obvious. But the fact that the second biggest population of Polish people (ca. 1,5 million) lives outside Poland – in Chicago – may come as a surprise to many.
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18 wrz 2023 · Poles in Chicago were locked up in immigrant ghettos, cornered and distrustful. When I read “The Gang” by sociologist Frederick Thrasher, my head exploded. He studied a total of 1,313 gangs in Chicago, and noted that the majority of them were Polish.
18 lis 2019 · Many of Chicago’s Poles have maintained a vibrant sense of Polskość. To an extent, this is because of Chicago’s special place in the worldwide Polish diaspora. Through most of its history, Chicago has been the location of the largest “Polonia,” a term depicting a Polish diasporic community.
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.
Chicago is home to a thriving Polish community that has been an integral part of our city’s culture for generations. The Polish population here is one of the largest in the world outside of Poland, bringing proud Polish tradition, dining options, and history to every corner of Chicago.
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.
That’s a great (and logical) place to start when you’re looking for the city's best Polish spots, and you’ll find some of them on this guide. But now there are incredible pierogies, potato pancakes, and pickled herring scattered everywhere in Chicago.
