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The combined membership of the exclusively Polish Roman Catholic parishes of Polish Downtown together had over 100,000 parishioners in 1918, all located within a one-mile radius. [ 8 ] Although most of them are Roman Catholic churches, a schism that escalated into violence by parishioners of St. Hedwig's Church led to the founding of an ...
The first meeting of the Chicago Club was held on May 1, 1869. [5] The first clubhouse was destroyed by fire in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, so the club moved to 279 Michigan Avenue for two years, and then to the Gregg House at 476 Wabash Avenue. In 1876 the club built its first permanent home on Monroe Street across from the Palmer House. [6]
The club's advocacy and outreach work has included collaborating with several other arts and culture organizations in both the United States and Poland. [ 2 ] The Polish Arts Club of Chicago is the oldest affiliated organization of the American Council for Polish Culture , which was founded in 1948 in Detroit as the American Council of Polish ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
In 1987, about eight years after he came to the United States from Poland, Marek Predki and six other people decided to bring a Polish tradition to their new country by embarking on a pilgrimage ...
The Polish American Association (PAA) (Polish: Zrzeszenie Amerykańsko Polskie) is a non-profit human services agency that serves the diverse needs of the Chicago immigrant community. Originally located in Polish Downtown , the PAA was founded as the Polish Welfare Association in 1922 by a group of prominent Polish businessmen and professionals ...