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The South Bohemian Region was established with constitutional Act No. 347/97 [6] of Collections concerning the formation of higher territorial administrative units. The region and its authorities are specified by Act No. 129-2000 of Collections concerning regions, which came into effect on the day of the regional authorities elections, 1 ...
The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [2]
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The territory extends into four geomorphological mesoregions: Tábor Uplands (most of the territory), Vlašim Uplands (northeast), Benešov Uplands (northwest) and České Budějovice Basin (south). The highest point of the district is the hill Kozlov in Chyšky with an elevation of 709 m (2,326 ft), the lowest point is the Orlík Reservoir in ...
After the Great Chicago Fire damaged much of Praha and Italians and Greeks began to move into the area, the Czech community then migrated further south into Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, which they named after Pilsen, Czechia. The first Czech Catholic Church, St. Wenceslaus, was founded at De Koven and Des Plaines streets in 1863.
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
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Bohemia thus remains a historical region, and its administration is divided between Prague and the Central Bohemian, Plzeň, Karlovy Vary, Ústí nad Labem, Liberec, and Hradec Králové regions, as well as most of the Pardubice and South Bohemian region, and parts of the Vysočina and South Moravian regions. [8]