Can Chicago Brag about the Size of its Polish Population?

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🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A Grabowski team of demographA Grabowski team of demographers help us test the city’s claim of having the most Poles outside Poland.ers help us test the city’s claim of having the most Poles outside Poland.A Grabowski team of demographers help us test the city’s claim of having the most Poles outside Poland.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.0	What school's...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they give the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:17.0	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	I'm Jesse Duke's audio producer, and I have a story about who gets bragging rights.
0:25.3	Chicago has a lot to brag about.
0:27.5	Amazing architecture, distinctive cuisine.
0:30.2	And for a few glorious weeks, we could even brag about the Cubs this year.
0:34.6	Yeah.
0:35.4	But sometimes, we brag about things that may or may not actually be true.
0:40.3	Our questioner, Todd Lighter Wyn Trowb, has one of those.
0:44.3	It was something that my father told me. He is a smart guy, but he likes to remind you of that every now and then.
0:49.3	He's like, yeah. You know, Todd, Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, but you didn't know that.
0:56.2	Oh, yes, Dad, I did because you told me about six or seven other times.
1:00.0	So Todd wants to know if it's true.
1:02.1	Is Chicago actually the largest Polish city outside of Warsaw?
1:06.4	Do you figure he had just heard that somewhere?
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