Irish immigrants have been making Chicago their home since the 1830s, with the last large wave of Irish immigrants arriving in the 1980s. Therefore, it is not surprising that twelve of Chicago’s mayors have been Irish, including Richard M. Daley, Chicago’s longest-running mayor (who served from 1989 to 2011). Through the efforts of Chicago’s Irish…
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Polish Museum of America
If you live in Chicago, you may have heard people say that Chicago has the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, Poland. Chicago’s radio station, WBEZ, investigated this claim in 2015. Although it is not completely true, there are elements of truth to it. According to WEBZ, the largest Polish populations outside of Poland can…
Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
Chicago ranks among the top three cities with the largest Ukrainian population in the United States. The first Ukrainian immigrants came to Chicago during a wave in the late nineteenth century, but three more waves of immigration followed throughout the twentieth century. Many Ukrainians settled in a western area of Chicago, which is now known…
Chinese American Museum of Chicago
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago just reopened its doors to the public on July 1, 2020, after being closed since March, due to the COVID-19 outbreak. A video of the reopening is available on a Chinese website: http://video.sinovision.net/?id=57080&cid=124&fbclid=IwAR1JFmQDCF61-jNvMpIFVFGaAakkRuMxtn4yZFGysYTXGUQN_BPZhh8fWOI Many people from China began arriving to the United States during the California Gold Rush of…
National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial
Unfortunately, many genocides occurred during the twentieth century. One of them was the Cambodian Genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1979. Approximately, 2 million people died. In the United States, Chicago is the only place that currently has a memorial to this Genocide (although Long Beach, California is currently working on one). This is…
Ashurbanipal Library
Many people have heard about the Ancient Assyrians when learning about ancient civilizations in history class, or when reading the book of Jonah in the Bible. However, most people do not realize that there is a Christian, ethnic minority group in the Middle East that still identifies with this ancient civilization. Assyrians live in Iran,…
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