Chicago, with its industrial growth and demand for labor, was a magnet for Polish immigrants looking to have a better, more economically prosperous life. By the 1900s, the number of immigrants and ...

(Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun) The Polish immigrants who settled in Brandon in the early 1900s played a significant role in shaping the city’s history, especially the area between the train tracks ...

In the early 1900s, the city boasted five Polish-language newspapers ... Water-gun fights broke out between the floats and onlookers. New immigrants living on Buffalo’s East Side, many of ...

Vance Whitmore says his grandfather brought with him a knowledge of Southern cooking to a town filled with Eastern European immigrants ... the 1900s. While the historical record doesn’t show who ...

I wrote these poems as the queer daughter of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants, from a country whose borders have been drawn and redrawn over centuries. Having birthright citizenship saved ...

I am Polish by extraction. I am 74 years old. Old enough to remember the tension that Polish immigrants faced from the previous waves of immigrants. My grandfather, whose last name was Pokrywa ...

Paczki arrived in the U.S. around the 19th century with Polish Catholic immigrants. The Polish Catholics brought the tradition of using up and clearing pantries of fats such as butter and lard and ...

Dylewski was part of a wave of Polish immigrants that came to Chicago during the 1980s, referred to as “Solidarity” immigration. After martial law was imposed from 1981 to 1983, people left ...