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Old 05-23-2015, 08:31 PM
 
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My grandma used to own a house on 3522 W Pershing Road in Chicago. Does anyone know if that is still a nice Polish neighborhood to live in ? I would love to buy her house back and move there.
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Old 05-23-2015, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Roselle, IL
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Czesc!

Google StreetView is your friend:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8224...Yg!2e0!6m1!1e1

It looks like a Mini-Mexico from that picture...


'Polonia' is spread out across various Chicago suburbs, although there's still Polish Village in Avondale, though:

Avondale, Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 06-07-2015, 06:56 PM
 
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Yep, I figured it had turned into little mexico. That's so sad. It was a nice neighborhood. They were starting to move in when my grandma was still alive. Don't want to sound prejudice but when they move in the neighborhood turns to trash.
Thanks for letting me know. If you know of any other areas where Poles are I would love to know. My grandfather was Swedish. Do you know where they live now a days? What towns?

Thanks,

Shirley-Frances
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Old 06-07-2015, 08:30 PM
 
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Hey Shirley. My in laws are polish and live in Chicago. Around Harlem and Addison is still a lot of Polish folks, also Italians and Irish. Most Poles live in the far Northwest now in the areas nearest to OHare airport. Norridge and Harwood Heights are two separate towns that are basically Chicago neighborhoods (surrounded by the city and OHare) that never got incorporated for whatever reason. It feels the same as the NW side but you get okay schools and actual city services. Poles still come but not as much since Poland became part of the European Union, they can move to England freely without even getting a visa so there is less incentive to come here.
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Old 06-07-2015, 08:34 PM
 
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Most Swedes have mixed in the general European mutt milieu, no Swede area that I know. The only area I can think of with a discernible single european ethnic group would be Mt Greenwood where my grandparents live on the southwest side and Canaryville where I was born which is a little pocket area between Halstead and the Dan Ryan (east west) between 43rd and 47th...those are Irish.
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