'Poland elsewhere': Why So Many Poles Came to Chicago

Curious City

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🗓️ 30 October 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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How generation after generation of Polish families made the city into a 'Poland elsewhere.'

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.0	What school's up?
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they keep to look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's Curious City.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hey, Jesse Duke's here.
0:22.2	And if you remember last time on Curious City, we took on a question from Todd Lighter
0:26.2	Wynchowb about something his dad always told him.
0:29.0	He is a smart guy, but he likes to remind you of that every now and then.
0:32.0	He's like, yeah.
0:33.0	You know, Todd, Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, but you didn't know that.
0:38.9	Oh, yes, Dad, I did because you told me about six or seven other times.
0:42.8	Todd wanted to know if that was actually true. And if so, why? And what we learned last time is Chicago
0:48.8	is probably the number three Polish city outside Poland. But if we're talking metropolitan areas, then the Chicago
0:55.1	region does have the largest Polish population of any non-Polish metro. We have close to 900,000
1:01.2	people of Polish ancestry. And they've shaped life here, in big ways and small ways. There are 52
1:07.8	Catholic churches with Polish masses. We have Polish diners, a respected Polish history museum, even a Polish yacht club.
1:15.5	So now I'm taking on the second part of Todd's question.
1:18.9	Why did so many Poles come here to Chicago?
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