The Rise of Casimir Pulaski Day

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How Chicago’s Polish community won a Revolutionary War hero a holiday ... in a state he never stepped in.

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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 keep the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:12.0	It's Curious City.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:17.0	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hey, I'm Jesse Dukes, Curious City's audio producer.
0:23.6	And I have to admit, when I moved to Chicago a year ago, I had never heard of today's topic.
0:29.5	Actually, our question asker, Nick Levy, was in the same boat when he moved here back in 2004.
0:36.1	He was nine.
0:37.2	I moved to Chicago. I was going into fifth grade.
0:42.6	Actually, he was in Oak Park.
0:44.3	There was this holiday that I saw on the calendar. I couldn't even pronounce it.
0:49.0	And I asked my parents, and they also didn't know because they're both from New England.
0:54.3	Have you figured out what Nick's getting at?
0:56.2	The holiday was Casimir Pulaski Day.
0:59.1	And in Oak Park, according to Nick, nobody talked about who Casimir Pulaski was.
1:03.4	It was just a day off.
1:05.1	Never.
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