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  2. Polish Downtown (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Polonia Triangle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Polish Museum of America - Wikipedia

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    The Polish Museum of America is located in West Town, in what had been the historical Polish Downtown neighborhood of Chicago.It is home to numerous Polish artifacts, artwork, and embroidered folk costumes in its growing collection.

  5. Poles in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Much of 1950s Chicago Polish youth culture was captured in the 1972 musical Grease, in which the majority of characters had Polish surnames (Zuko, Dumbrowski, Kenickie); Jim Jacobs, who conceived Grease, based the musical on his real-life experiences in a Chicago high school. Much of the Polish-American nature of the musical was discarded when ...

  6. Agora (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    Agora is an installation of 106 headless and armless iron sculptures at the south end of Grant Park in Chicago. Designed by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, they were made in a foundry near Poznań between 2004 and 2006. [1] In 2006, the Chicago Park District brought the work to Chicago as a permanent loan from the Polish Ministry of ...

  7. List of neighborhoods in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Krause Music Store in Lincoln Square 26th Street in Little Village A woodblock print (1925) of Maxwell Street by Todros Geller A Portage Park two-flat, or Polish flat, in Chicago's Bungalow Belt Wacławowo is derived from the Polish name for the church of St. Wenceslaus. Photographer Richard Nickel was married here in 1950.

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  9. Chopin Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The building is located across the Polish Triangle in the area once called Polish Downtown. In 1990 the ruined theater, located then in one of the most dangerous parts of Chicago, was purchased by the Dyrkacz family and began operations as At the Gallery Theater [2] presenting also Visual Arts. After separation in 1992, the theater was managed ...