Horse-drawn carriages and a streetcar in the "Polish Downtown" section of Chicago, circa 1905. Photo: UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In honor of Casimir Pulaski Day, let's investigate an incredible ...

With over 218,000 inhabitants who have roots in the Land on the Vistula, the Big Apple is often called America’s most Polish town, along with Chicago. One of the city’s neighbourhoods, Greenpoint, is ...

Chicago had ties to Poland – it was founded in 1833, and Poles were already coming there in the 1830s. Little is known about these first Polish migrants apart from that they were refugees from the ...