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**A comprehensive and engaging history of a century of Polish immigration and influence in Chicago.** Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade__.__ In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaholics. You can have lunch at pierogi food trucks or pick up pączkis at the grocery store. And if you're lucky, you get to take off work for Casimir Pulaski Day. For more than a century, Chicago has been home to one of the largest Polish populations outside of Poland, and the group has had an enormous influence on the city's culture and politics. Yet, until now, there has not been a comprehensive history of the Chicago Polonia. With __American Warsaw__, award-winning historian and Polish American Dominic A. Pacyga chronicles more than a century of immigration, and later emigration back to Poland, showing how the community has continually redefined what it means to be Polish in Chicago. He takes us from the Civil War era until today, focusing on how three major waves of immigrants, refugees, and fortune seekers shaped and then redefine

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Author

Dominic A Pacyga; University of Chicago Press

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226815343

Category

history

Subjects

History, Science, Fiction

Rating

4.5 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14