Polish Downtown (Chicago)

The Polish Museum of America in the PRCUA building designed by John S. Flizikowski is in the old Polish Downtown.

Polish Downtown was Chicago's oldest and most prominent Polish settlement. Polish Downtown was the political, cultural and social capital of Poles in Chicago and of other Polish Americans throughout North America.[1] Centered on Polonia Triangle at the intersection of Division, Ashland and Milwaukee Avenue, the headquarters for almost every major Polish organization in the United States was clustered within its vicinity, beginning with the Polish National Alliance to the Polish Daily News.[2]

  1. ^ "Northwest Chicago Historical Society - Polish Downtown". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  2. ^ Granacki, Victoria: Chicago's Polish Downtown, Arcadia Press, 2004, p. 6-7