Northwest suburbs of Chicago are Polish... my 5 year old starts kindergarten next week and out of 18 children in his class 10 are Polish . Pozdrawiam z Itasca 😉
Sounds like my 3rd day class we had 23 Polish kids out of a 29kid classroom, I'll find the picture so I can write what year and school, I think it was Bridge School but not 100% sure
I love my Polish immigrant friends and neighbors here in Chicago. The best and nicest friends I could have. I wish more Polish people were moving to the States today. Very few move here now but I have loved hearing from my friends about how life was when they moved from the farm in the highlands area of Poland to Chicago in the 1970's It was a complete culture shock to fly here and seeing all the people and buildings and cars. They way they described their home area there were very few cars in those days. They also said they were shocked with all the stores and how they were open late at night and some 24 hours a day. Apparently that was a very big difference from Poland in those days. It must have been fun to come to a place like that they could offer them so much and that a few months salary of a minimum wadge job was more than they made in a whole year back home. I can't imagine how great that must have felt. I suppose now there is no need for anybody to leave Poland anymore with how much better things are there now and that is a good thing for those family's there today for sure.
Wielu Polakow przeprowadzilo sie do Wielkiej Brytanii, poniewaz oczywiscie Wielka Brytania jest znacznie blizej Polski, ale ma znacznie lepsze mozliwosci i lepsze zycie. Stany Zjednoczone i Wielka Brytania sa bardzo podobne. Polska ma bardzo wiele podobienstw do USA & U.K. Nie wiem czy nadal tak jest, ale America mieszka wiecej Polski niz Polska. Many Poles moved to Great Britain, because of course Great Britain is much closer to Poland, but it has much better opportunities and a better life. The United States and Great Britain are very similar. Poland has many similarities to the USA & U.K. I do not know if the situation is still this way but there use to be more Polish people living in American than in Poland.
Ben Harrison No we don’t they let us stay with No limit or 5 years but most of us get nolimit status everyone who is here more then 5 years is ok to stay
I grew up and lived in Chicago, Logan Square then Belmont-Cragin. The Polish delis are great, always had good food. Gene's Sausage Shop on Belmont was my favorite store. Chicago By Night was a pleasant lounge at the corner of Belmont and Central. I didn't speak any Polish, but was glad of so much European influence in the neighborhood.
Cześć! Im not Polish but im Czech! a lot of Polish immigrants moved to the north,northwest,southwest suburbs of Chicago. Theres still a lot of Polish! I live in the southwest suburb of Lemont and theres plenty of Polish and also Lithuanians,Swedish, Germans and some Czechs there, the restaurant called Old Town is a very great Polish/European restaurant. Theres also great European stores like Shop and Save,Celinas Deli and a lot more! I love going on the radio in my car and listen to PolskiFM and 1080A.M radio station to hear ethnic music. I hope you can visit Taste of Polonia next time! Best wishes Andrej
That's my neighborhood! I live just west of Avondale in Hermosa, which is very industrial but in my corner of the 'hood, very residential. All those establishments you mentioned are on my bike route to/from work. Thank you for posting!
theres alot polish on the Southside , Im Latino me and my friends go to Polska Bar Kazcmiers to bring on Archer at Mamas Bar , she makes Old school Chicago Chili and shes Old skool and Hip .... Very nice lady and that place is very comfy ....., Brighton Park use to be Lietvu and Polska ,my neighbor was Polish ,i dont know his name but his short nickname in polish and how i knew him was Packy ,he was a Korean war veteran ....i use talk to him as a boy ,nice man always listening to his Radio the baseball games ,and looking in the Military magazines with guns for sale lol .... He was a good man .....ill never forget him !
Wow that’s crazy! The first building you showed named Zosia Kwiaty is owned by my grandmother. She ran the business with my step-grandfather since the 1980’s. A few years after he passed away she closed the flower shop and turned the business area into her private apartment. Her name isn’t even zoisia it’s Maria so idk where that name came from.
I remeber seeing it with my own eyes back in the 90s: MCA actually _was_ , for a little while, the largest "Polish" city in the world. Warsaw was second largest.
That was and is completly bullshit abouT Chicago. Warsaw has 3 milions of residents. 1/3 of them have cars registered in their family cities - rural areas to have much cheaper car insurance. Many people go to the Warsaw for work because sallaries here are much bigger than in other parts of Poland. You can find so many young people from Silesia, pomerania, Masovia, Tatra mountains, podlaskie, łódzkie etc.
Great video! I am born and raised in Chicago, Polish American. There is a south side Polish area off of Archer Ave in Chicago as well, and the town of Lemont (where I grew up) is Polish and Lithuanian. There are beautiful old churches that do mass in Polish.
I lived near St. Hyacinths growing up, and on... Now in Portage Park, I find there a lots of Polish ppl here.. and Jefferson Park, though I'm English speaking only. I have Montrose Deli to walk to... great prices on many things but I learned to go in non peak hours.... my it gets crowded. The staff are way friendlier than that Polish deli on Milwaukee by Central Park... I stopped going there years ago just because of their horrible attitudes.
@@cathyt502 , I am only saying that the Polish community are moving they are moving to the suburbs, sure there is alot of Poles in Chicago but churches in the suburbs are packed at Polish masses and more and more stores and restaurants are out in the suburbs..come and check it out
@@cathyt502 Cathy T - you are absolutely correct about the Montrose Deli !! I'm from Wisconsin and my father was born in Poland; he came to America in 1905 as a little boy w/ his family. Montrose Deli is great for shopping especially since everyone behind the meat counter at the back of the store are bilingual. Do not let the Polish speakers make you hesitate. Step up, pick a number and you will graciously be waited on!
@@mariel9385 Maybe my Busia came the same year... on the same ship. She was 16 I think (born 1887, from Pcim, Malopolskie, Poland I found on the Ellis Island website). She went to work as a cook at one of the downtown hotels not speaking any English.... but she had fabulous stories to tell of her life at that time... esp. of Al Capone. I have a large photo taken at that time of her and all the kitchen staff.
This is was a great video. I live in Chicago and am dating a Polish woman. I want to go to St. Hyacinth. We went to Staropolska and she agreed that is a great Polish restaurant!
I remember flying into Chicago and met a few Polish-American people, very nice and welcome people I must say. Then I finally got to do a rotation in Poland and I fell in love with the country and people! I definitely would love to visit Chicago or Poland itself again one day.
I grew up on the northwest side of Chicago. While I'm not polish, I grew up around many poles and really enjoyed your video, altho you missed so many things. The far northwest side is where many poles sttill live.
Go to Wisconsin, more Polish live in Wisconsin then anyother state in America. My family last name is Szulc who immigrated from pomerania to Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1868, many Poles there.
The South Side of Milwaukee STILL is packed with them. Everyone I knew there had an "ski" on the end of their names. They still (I think) say mass in polish in the towns just south of Milwaukee (Cudahy, South Milwaukee, and Oak Creek).
Szulc is more like german or prussian Schulz, but does not matter 👍. It is great to know family history- in Poland most was lost in war with people ,destruction and replacement😕
Thank you. If you have time you should visit Toronto's Polish area, especially Roncesvalles st. on the west side. thanks again and all the best to you and yours. I hope one day you will be able to visit and make video about Krakow, where I immigrated from Toronto, Ontario 3 years ago.
GREAT video, Russell. Chicago's NICE - the street parties/food festivals there are EPIC and feature top-notch Polish and Germany grub IMO . BTW, I agree with your statement at 7:11 - Poles definitely assimilate seamlessly into Murica and make it a better place. Correct me if you disagree, but I think that most Poles are intelligent, hard-working and have a desire to enrich their education - traits which benefit any country. PS I NEED to get some of that Polish🚰 dishwashing liquid. I'm SURE it's Bardzo dobrze!! PPS In a few months, the areas you visited WILL be covered by ⛄snow!!😁
I agree w/ you. My grandparents are from Poland; my parents and 5 siblings all born here. I'm 61, still in Chicago. I wish we were taught both languages as children, but we were raised to speak English only. I've noticed many times, and still do, that so many Polish ppl have a negative attitude toward a Polish person who doesn't speak Polish. It's very frustrating to me. Why is that? Why must they have such a bad attitude and give dirty looks? Maybe you can explain it to me. Yes, we are smart and hard working people, as are other ethnic groups that made up Chicago from the early 1900s. ( My son's gf is from Poland, speaks both languages too)
@@cathyt502 That's cool, my grandparents emigrated from Poland (Warsaw) to the USA as well!! And, honestly, I'm NOT sure how they didn't end up in Chicago as it seems as though that's the Poland > America law. :-) AND, just like your family, no one in my family, unfortunately, speaks fluent Polish as my grandparents were determined to be CERTAIN that ALL of the family members were fluent in English. Talk about hard core assimilation!! I'm not sure why Poles get upset with Polish-Americans for not being able to speak Polish as they HAVE to realize how difficult It is. Unless you grow-up speaking it, I think it's almost impossible to become fluent in Polish. Since I'm eager to visit Poland - especially since watching RUclips channels like Russell's - I'm trying to improve my Polish vocabulary, but it's been tough. Hopefully, the *"Polish For Dummies®"* book I recently picked up will help.😁 Have you ever been there? PS I'm HAPPY that your son is dating a Polish girl!!👍
@@charlies.5777 Thanks for replying. No, never been to Poland. I'm pretty sure they wanted us to be as American as possible since my Busia had it so hard in Poland on the farm and only speaking Polish when arriving in US at 14: worked as a cook at a downtown hotel. She had fantastic stories to tell, esp. re: Al Capone. I'm honored to be named after her, as I was her favorite grandchild :)
@@cathyt502 Wow,I'm sure those Capone stories were fantastic!! That's pretty wild. Hopefully, we'll both be able to travel to Poland and check it out at some point. I certainly want to take in all of Poland's magnificence and see a lot of Polish museums as I'm a bit of a History nerd. Trying some authentic Polish cuisine and some Polish 🍸 vodka (Na zdrowie!!) Is also on my bucket list. PS Since I'm the youngest grandchild, my grandma let me know that I was her favorite, TOO!! What a great feeling!! If my sisters only knew!!😁
Since joining the European Union there is absolutely no reason for any polish person to move to the USA. We don’t go there because we can’t work there. If we do go abroad. 99% of the time it will be in the EU/EEA/CH region where we can live and work. I don’t know if you know but in the years 2008-2012 120 000 Polish people emigrated from the USA back to the EU. Times have changed. I guess for Asians, Africans and South Americans the USA is still an attractive migration destination but for Europeans it just isn’t.
Poland will surpass Western Europe and the United States. The USA is becoming a 3rd world mixture of South America, Africa, and Islam. Basically like a shithole country. Poland is clean, modern, educated, intelligent, they know who they are. In fact Poland saved Europe from Islam already.
I feel sorry for the 10's of thousands of Russians that moved to our city (just north of Chicago). They got here just as American industry was being moved out of the country to cheap labor places like Mexico and China. They were screwed.
@@badguy1481 Well they can still make money in other industries and the Europeans are very adaptable. They do better then American people. They own nice cars and buy nice homes. Many want to come and work and invest but the Mexicans and central Americans keep coming here illegally then signing up for every welfare program known to man. Legal immigrants don't have a chance. They are going to the UK and Germany now. Nobody needs to put up with the drama here. Even I am leaving the USA. Poland is orderly and immigrants don't walk around with a chip on their shoulder like they own the place. Poles don't play that. They would never allow their culture to become Islamic or African.
Thanks for this! My father's uncles moved here in the 40s. Lived just north of Koz. park. Nice to see!
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iwas born and grew up in the late 40s through the 50s in Chicago, my neighborhood was around Milwaukee-Damen& North Ave. which was called the Wicker park area. when we moved out late 50s, it was just about all Puerto Rican...
Very cool! There’s still a polish neighborhood in Philadelphia called port Richmond. It’s not as polish as back in the day but there are still many shops and a lot of polish heritage still seen in that neighborhood
My uncle - is Hungarian - who is living in Chicago for 40 years has a Polish wife. I always remember they mentioned that Chicago has the second largest Polish community after Warsaw.
For decades the Polish cultural center of Chicago was the area bounded by Milwaukee, Ashland and Division streets. Two Polish Catholic High schools: Holy Family and Holy Trinity, Polish language newspaper and many Polish parishes. Now part of Wicker Park an upscale neighborhood, very few reminders of its Polish history remain. The James Stewart movie, Northside 777 was filmed in that neighborhood in 1948.
He fought in wars defending Poland and also in the American Revolution. He came to the Colonies after getting in .... ahem... trouble in France, and when the Revolutionary War began he fought alongside Washington. He returned to Poland and fought even more, but was defeated... but is still hailed as a hero
Incidentally, there is also Casimir Pulaski, a young Polish soldier who also fought against the Russians and later in the Revolutionary war and was killed in action. I am not sure if there is any reference to him in Poland, though. He died when he was 34.
seriously??? Look up US history and you will know. Every US citizen should know who was Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski! I am not afraid to say that without Koscuszko and Pulaski USA might not have won US Revolution.
xywa23 I think a small blurb is enough to get people curious to do their own research. A RUclips comment is not the place for a detailed history lesson.
Oh too bad man 😎 you been already in Chicago🤙 next time I’m buying lunch but in southside 👍 Ps . I’m really enjoying watching your videos!!!! Good job 👏
I have not gone yet, but plan to, to Buffalo , NY. I hear they too have a large Polish population. We had a small one here in Erie, PA, but it's pretty much non existent now except for a few Polish churches, a Polish restaurant and a few Polish delis and that's it. Well and the Polish festival during the summer.
I love the Red Apple Buffet. When I moved South 200 miles I couldn't go there as much. But I did bring my wife once and she loved it,too! Somuch that we brought home a fewboxesof their frozen perogis. Unfortunately, I hear it closed...I am not sure but I certainly hope not.
Don't know about now...But 40 years ago, in Harwood Heights, you BET! I got tired of listening to Polish music being played on the radio, on Sundays, while the people there "lounged" in their drive ways!
All of the Poles moved to Chicagoland suburbs. It’s the same story in NY with the Italians. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn used to be one of the most Italian neighborhoods in the country and then most of the people there moved out to places like Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey. Most of that neighborhood now is Hispanics and Asians.
I'd like to see a review of polish airports and how they compare to American ones! That's a video you could do on the run and I think it might be interesting
Wrong spot for Chicago skyline. The view is amazing from the lake. The best skyline in North America. Red Apple buffet closed after 30 years. Some businesses are unknown to me however I’ve lived here over 40 years. Never lived in Jackowo or Wladyslawowo. I used to go there years ago. The first Polish neighborhood was Southside Stockyard around 100 years ago. Later , in 50-s it moved to Polish Triangle: Milwaukee, Ashland and Division Streets. And Jackowo, Wladyslawowo followed later. The last 20 years there’s no Polish center. Poles are all over the city and the suburbs living even in very expensive places like Inverness, Barrington Hills, Winnetka, Kenilworth, Hinsdale.
@Adam Barnaby sadly yes, not due to lack of business but because someone wants to develop a condo there and the money was too good to pass up. fortunately they have another location about three to four miles north west on Milwaukee near Irving Park Road. I love that place not only for the food but the neighborhood too. The other one is nice but the neighborhood just isn't the same.
My grandparents came in the early1900s my father was born in Chicago in1907 he went to Catholic school and as soon as he got out he would grab his news papers and come rain or shine sell them the newspapers were 2 cents each and he made 6 cents a week by the time he was13 he made 11 cents a week
All of my grandparents moved to Chicago from Poland in the early 1900’s. Both of my parents were born and raised in Chicago. I grew up in California. I met other people of Polish descent for the first time when I was in college. The people that I met were very happy to meet a fellow Pole! Unfortunately, there aren’t many Poles in California.
You should've went on archer ave on the Southside. It has also changed a lot, but in between Harlem and a little east of central, it's still pretty Polish. It's unfortunate, but a lot of the former Polish areas of chicago are changing and the Polish people are moving elsewhere. There are however, large areas of Polish people in the southern suburbs of Burbank, Lemont, Homer Glen, Lockport, parts of Orland Park, and a few other cities. Most of these areas contain the Polish people that formerly lived in that area around archer ave in chicago. These were predominantly highlanders(goraly) They worked hard throughout the years until they were finally able to build or buy a house out in the suburbs, and they moved creating smaller communities of Polish People spread throughout the southwestern suburbs, among other areas.
Yes also there is ALOT of Polish people near Ohare for example like Norridge, Schiller Park, Franklin Park, River Grove that whole area, that's where i went to elementary school and there was alot of Polish kids in the school I went
@@chriss1436 Yes there is, I never said there wasn't. All I said is that he should've gone to the Southside to show the people the formerly Polish neighborhoods that can be found there.
The main area also was Belmont Cragin neighborhood as well as Dunning. Some still are around but we are slowly migrating elsewhere as these neighborhoods are falling apart. Belmont from central up to about Austin had tons of Polish business but a good majority of them closed down. The area has been getting a lot of crime as well as the Hispanic nationalities moving in. South side still has polish people but not sure for how much longer since middle easterners are getting there
@@adrianweglarz4299 yeah we all know what happens on Belmont on May 3rd...... if not just RUclips it and u will see how many young Polish people we have here
Chris S those days are done. This year was horrible and it’s just a bunch of kids running around to spots. No one cruises Belmont anymore if you pay attention next time
Dunning, on the far NW side, has largest Polish population in the city proper of any of the 77 neighborhoods. The suburbs have far larger population, are many places with polish spoken, stores, etc outside this area. Many dozens of churches have mass in Polish. The church you showed in a Basilica (not just a church/parish)
My childhood (smart aleck friends) used to call the people who lived in that area: "Lugans" (maybe for Logan Square?). If that's "smart aleck" for Polock...I just learned something today (after 60 years!).
A lot of Polish people from that neighborhood moved further north on Milwaukee Ave. to Niles. You missed Kurowski Sausage Shop man! That's a Polish landmark!
Next time in the States, you could try Broadway Market in Buffalo. There's lots about it on RUclips. However, the neighborhood isn't the greatest. There is the national shrine to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,outside of Philly, but the that would mostly appeal to practicing Catholics. Most of the Polish neighborhoods in the US aren't much anymore. Polish Hill in Pittsburgh, Slavic Village in Cleveland, Poletown in Detroit......not the same anymore. I suspect most Americans of Polish descent, like my extended family, have become completely Americanized....they eat kielbasa or golubki or pierogi, but that's the extent of it. Nevertheless, thank you for the videos. I learn a lot and it makes me want to visit Poland even more.
Wow! Russel, I owe you a huge beer (a real shot of Scotch, Kentucky Bourbon, whatever you wish) [BTW: Next Polsh idiom: „Wiszę ci ...” It doesn’t mean KKK warning. No „loops” attached, never! „Przysługa za przysługę” that’s the better feed for translation.] Back to the topic. There is a lot of nice clever everyday tools offered in USA. The „one dollar bargains” or so. The shipping charges, the single fright costs make them absolutely out of mind. „Paczka do Polski” seems to be a reasonable solution. The US based adress of delivery. And a one huge cardboard box delivered to door. Ingenious!
cool idea, but you arrived like 10-15 years too late. It used to be a thriving Polish neighborhood (like Chnatown) but that was back in 90's and first decade of the new millenium. Now, as you can see it is mostly old generations or shops closed down, plus a mix of other nationalities.
You need to come to Toronto Canada - Missisauga dzielnica has a lit of polish plazas with stores and cafe and businesses of every sort. Then there is the old polish district The Roncessvale and some places along the old Lake Shore Boulevard.
Americans may be used to it but I don't know how would I feel if a foreign group came to my town and started to name shops, streets, services etc in an unknown language...
@@karinasemeniuk5908 even worse if you were daddy's pride and joy but pissed him off by marrying a German Protestant and got yourself disinherited. Caroline Stripling was a Catholic by the time my mom was born in 1914.
Why is it nearly impossible to a watch a Milwaukee Brewer's⚾ game at Miller🍺 Park®?! *Because there's ALWAYS a Pole in your way!!* 😁 Sorry for that - I like corny/cheesy jokes!! PS I'm surprised it's not called Piwo Park!! :-)
On thumbnail there was "Ziemia Moniecka" sign. And here's one funny thing: I was on holiday in Mońki region (pol. Ziemia Moniecka). Więc tak, na znaku jest napisane "Ziemia Moniecka", a ja byłem na wakacjach na ziemi monieckiej xD
We still out here! We haven’t gone nowhere except the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Chicago is just not that attractive anymore to us. The crime rate and the taxes sitting on top of your neighbor etc. We are in Des Plaines, Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mount Prospect and Schaumburg now.
Ernest Barteldes yeah, but just like in Chicago, less Polish people live in Greenpoint. Moved to Ridgewood Queens or suburbs or back to Poland. However it is still the heart of historical Polonia in NYC
@@robson_pl8694 True... last time I was in Greenpoint I noticed how less and less Polish it is, and more hipsters. A lot of Poles have moved to Staten Island, too.
These changes well represent what US were that days and what it is now. American dream does not exist anymore :-( This is more like south america now...
THE Amurican dream is STILL alive - although it's NOT thriving - for people who want to work hard and make something of themselves. Unfortunately, however, too many people here now want to be lazy slobs and live by sucking on the government's teat. It's pretty sad, especially since certain American politicians seem To be hell-bent on seeing America fail. I'm not a HUGE Trump fan (I typically loathe ALL politician scumbags) BUT I'm hoping that he's politically incorrect enough to tell people that if you don't have a *LEGITIMATE* reason why you're not working, you won't receive any "public assistance." America's new motto should be: *"If you're a productive, hard-working ,nonviolent individual who'll assimilate nicely into society, COME on OVER. If you're not, then stay away!!"*
The America built by Europeans is coming to an end. The liberals and the Jews hate white Christians. So we should give our energy, creativity, and talents to our original homelands. The USA betrayed white European Americans.
@@nonperson22 tak, Jackowo, Wladyslawowo, Stanislawowo, itd... Te nazwy pochodza od kosciolow Sw Jacka, Sw. Wladyslawa, w tych dzielnicach. Pozdrawiam!
Staropolska jeszcze jakoś się prezentuje ale cała reszta wygląda jakby właściciele wyjechali z Polski w czasach PRL kiedy szukali lepszego miejsca do życia i zatrzymali się w tych komunistycznych klimatach nieświadomi, że w Polsce dawno wszystko poszło do przodu. Design, warunki do życia, jakość itp. Może i są tam polskie produkty, ale witryny sklepowe wyglądają odpychająco. To nie jest dobra wizytówka Polski. W porównaniu do naszych lokalnych restauracji, sklepów czy "barber shop'ów" to te 'polskie' sklepy w Stanach wyglądają jak zatrzymane w czasie. Polonia w USA mogłaby więcej czerpać z ojczyzny niż tylko wieszać polskie barwy nad sklepowymi szyldami, bo z tego co pokazałeś to tylko wstyd ale chyba już dawno nie zaglądali co to się dzieje na starych śmieciach.
To prawda, szyldy są zapieprzone napisami, mało w tym estetyki, zgadzam się, że Staropolska prezentuje się nieźle, zwłaszcza na tle pozostałych. Ale przejdź się po ulicach swojego miasta (chyba, że mieszkasz na wsi, to najbliższego ;p) i zobaczysz, że wcale nie jest inaczej. Często gorzej
Pieknie powiedziane. W Toronto tak samo. Nie wiem czy to brak kasy, gustu, checi, czy faktycznie brak spostrzezenia ze business nie wygloda ladnie. Pozdrawiam.
Często tak jest, czas dla tych ludzi zatrzymał się w PRL, dlatego wciąż wysyłają paczki do Polski. Ci starsi ludzie nie zauważyli lub nie przyjmują do wiadomości, że Polska to już całkiem inny kraj, niż ten z którego wyjechali.
Bartosz Jasinski MsLisbeth26 My tutaj w Stanach inaczej patrzymy na to niż Wy Kochani rodacy. Polska to Polska, Ameryka to Ameryka. W Polsce jest wszystko robione na wygląd, to co przyciągnie wizualnie. U nas wygląd sklepu nie ma zbytnio znaczenia, ale za to obsługa i ceny w sklepie maja znaczenie, i są bardzo dobrej jakości! 🤗 Cieszymy się, ze mamy polskie produkty, i ze ludzie którzy pracują w polskich sklepach, są bardzo mili i życzliwi, i to robi renomę sklepu, a nie zewnętrzny wygląd. My jesteśmy przyzwyczajeni do takiej polskości, i większość osób tutaj nie narzeka. A dziwi mnie bardzo, ze rodacy w Polsce narzekają na nasze polskie sklepy. Amerykanie maja inna mentalność, jak również Polscy, którzy tu mieszkają wieeeele lat tak jak my, cieszymy się drobnymi rzeczami, i jesteśmy wdzięczni. U nas business się kręci, ze tak się wyrażę, i cieszymy się, ze w tych miejscach możemy spotkać Polaków. My z rodzina trochę lat temu przeprowadziliśmy się do innego Stanu z IL, i tutaj mamy malutki sklepik polski, w którym produkty są naprawdę drogie, ale robimy w nim zakupy, aby choć trochę mieć polskiego dobrego jedzenia na stole 😋😊 Tutejsza mentalność jest taka, ze my cieszymy się, ze szklanka jest do połowy pełna, natomiast Polacy w Polsce, zawsze widza szklankę do połowy pusta. Narzekanie, to taka Polska cecha narodowa 😐 Pozdrawiam serdecznie 😊
@@MsLisbeth26 Wysyłają i ja też ,ponieważ nie wszystkim ludziom w Polsce nie powodzi tak dobrze jak Tobie.W latach 90 tych wysyłałem 10 paczek z cytrusami w ciągu jednego dnia.Te miejsca były zawalone paczkami po sufit.Cóż wielu Polakòw ma krótką wybiórczą pamięć .Wysłałem paczek tyle,że jak policzyłem na przesyłki wydałem 8000 $ koszt 1 funta 450 g to było 25 centów potem 39 a teraz 59 centów.Dawanie daje satysfakcję.Kiedy wyjeżdzałem w 1985 w Pols e było tragicznie.Teraz oczywiście jest znacznie lepiej i z tego bardzo się cieszę,ale wielu Polakòw pluje teraz na Polonię co czytam na tym utube nie rozumieją przemijającego czasu.Młodzi ludzie czasami są krytycznymi ignorantami i nie rozumieją tego co rozumie moje pokolenie.
FUCKING SLAWOMIR YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME, haha sorry for the caps couldnt hold it anymore, from all of the cool people we have in Poland there is a poster of a fucking SLAWOMIR, a disco polo singer, its like a pop mixed with country and love music in the most cringy way possible
Northwest suburbs of Chicago are Polish... my 5 year old starts kindergarten next week and out of 18 children in his class 10 are Polish . Pozdrawiam z Itasca 😉
Wow!!
Sounds like my 3rd day class we had 23 Polish kids out of a 29kid classroom, I'll find the picture so I can write what year and school, I think it was Bridge School but not 100% sure
At least you know that his school experience is going to be golden with fond memories.
That's how it be in Lemont 😭
Which suburbs would you recommend specifically?
I love my Polish immigrant friends and neighbors here in Chicago. The best and nicest friends I could have. I wish more Polish people were moving to the States today. Very few move here now but I have loved hearing from my friends about how life was when they moved from the farm in the highlands area of Poland to Chicago in the 1970's It was a complete culture shock to fly here and seeing all the people and buildings and cars. They way they described their home area there were very few cars in those days. They also said they were shocked with all the stores and how they were open late at night and some 24 hours a day. Apparently that was a very big difference from Poland in those days. It must have been fun to come to a place like that they could offer them so much and that a few months salary of a minimum wadge job was more than they made in a whole year back home. I can't imagine how great that must have felt. I suppose now there is no need for anybody to leave Poland anymore with how much better things are there now and that is a good thing for those family's there today for sure.
Wielu Polakow przeprowadzilo sie do Wielkiej Brytanii, poniewaz oczywiscie Wielka Brytania jest znacznie blizej Polski, ale ma znacznie lepsze mozliwosci i lepsze zycie. Stany Zjednoczone i Wielka Brytania sa bardzo podobne. Polska ma bardzo wiele podobienstw do USA & U.K.
Nie wiem czy nadal tak jest, ale America mieszka wiecej Polski niz Polska.
Many Poles moved to Great Britain, because of course Great Britain is much closer to Poland, but it has much better opportunities and a better life. The United States and Great Britain are very similar. Poland has many similarities to the USA & U.K.
I do not know if the situation is still this way but there use to be more Polish people living in American than in Poland.
@@VanquishMediaDE This is not true in any way. About 38 mln people living in Poland, 2 mln abroad.
Karolina 10 mil USA 5 mil brazil
Many Polish have to leave Uk after Brexit so this is a great for us to take on these abandoned white immigrants.
Ben Harrison No we don’t they let us stay with No limit or 5 years but most of us get nolimit status everyone who is here more then 5 years is ok to stay
I grew up and lived in Chicago, Logan Square then Belmont-Cragin. The Polish delis are great, always had good food. Gene's Sausage Shop on Belmont was my favorite store. Chicago By Night was a pleasant lounge at the corner of Belmont and Central. I didn't speak any Polish, but was glad of so much European influence in the neighborhood.
@@Jose-te3cj and Pilsen isn’t Hispanic anymore. Things just shift overtime no big deal
dont forget Jefferson Park,Norwood,Norridge,Niles,Des Plaines and SW Chicago !
Pray that in your next life you'll be born Polish .....in Chicago of course !
After years, I realized it was not so great. Restaurant was ok before that , but night life with drinking there- horrible experience.
Cześć!
Im not Polish but im Czech!
a lot of Polish immigrants moved to the north,northwest,southwest suburbs of Chicago. Theres still a lot of Polish! I live in the southwest suburb of Lemont and theres plenty of Polish and also Lithuanians,Swedish, Germans and some Czechs there, the restaurant called Old Town is a very great Polish/European restaurant. Theres also great European stores like Shop and Save,Celinas Deli and a lot more! I love going on the radio in my car and listen to PolskiFM and 1080A.M radio station to hear ethnic music.
I hope you can visit Taste of Polonia next time!
Best wishes
Andrej
Thanks and nice to meet you 😊👍
The Old Town restaurant is now closed in Lemont. I think the owners retired or moved back to Poland maybe.
That's my neighborhood! I live just west of Avondale in Hermosa, which is very industrial but in my corner of the 'hood, very residential. All those establishments you mentioned are on my bike route to/from work. Thank you for posting!
theres alot polish on the Southside , Im Latino me and my friends go to Polska Bar Kazcmiers to bring on Archer at Mamas Bar , she makes Old school Chicago Chili and shes Old skool and Hip .... Very nice lady and that place is very comfy ....., Brighton Park use to be Lietvu and Polska ,my neighbor was Polish ,i dont know his name but his short nickname in polish and how i knew him was Packy ,he was a Korean war veteran ....i use talk to him as a boy ,nice man always listening to his Radio the baseball games ,and looking in the Military magazines with guns for sale lol .... He was a good man .....ill never forget him !
Don’t miss Taste of Polonia. A lot of the Poles moved out to the suburbs and just go to the churches on Sundays.
beatle pete I’ll be there!
Taste of Polonia was amazing!
Catholics aren't real Christians
@@Some-random-Scythian yeah says some theologian who got his degree from a cereal box. Troll!
@@MrKrakowian A real Christian doesn't worship Mary and the Pope.
I never been in Chicago so it is nice to see how it's there. I am from Long Island New York and I love your videos
Wow that’s crazy! The first building you showed named Zosia Kwiaty is owned by my grandmother. She ran the business with my step-grandfather since the 1980’s. A few years after he passed away she closed the flower shop and turned the business area into her private apartment. Her name isn’t even zoisia it’s Maria so idk where that name came from.
Wow! It's an honor to have you here! 😊 Thanks for sharing this with me and us! Pozdrawiam!
Something could change in last years but not so long ago Chicago was second city in the world with highest population of Poles (after Warsaw)
It's always consider as Metropolitan Chicago Area . A lot of suburbs are included. It was never Chicago as a city but MCA .I think it's still is .
I remeber seeing it with my own eyes back in the 90s: MCA actually _was_ , for a little while, the largest "Polish" city in the world. Warsaw was second largest.
@@MaciejBogdanStepien yeah hes actually right about Chicagoland Area having more Polish people then Warsaw
Aguia Branca, ES - Brazil has more immigrants from Poland.
That was and is completly bullshit abouT Chicago. Warsaw has 3 milions of residents. 1/3 of them have cars registered in their family cities - rural areas to have much cheaper car insurance. Many people go to the Warsaw for work because sallaries here are much bigger than in other parts of Poland. You can find so many young people from Silesia, pomerania, Masovia, Tatra mountains, podlaskie, łódzkie etc.
Great video! I am born and raised in Chicago, Polish American. There is a south side Polish area off of Archer Ave in Chicago as well, and the town of Lemont (where I grew up) is Polish and Lithuanian. There are beautiful old churches that do mass in Polish.
Staten Island also has a small Polish community... and if you go to Brazil, go to Curitiba...
Ernest Barteldes Greenpoint is known for Polish community 😊
He's talking about Chicago, not New York...
@@xxxyyy5457 True, but it's shrinking now due to high rents and the hipsters. Many have moved to other areas, and Staten Island is one of them.
Ernest Barteldes Right 😊
The Polish people are also in the suburbs, Schaumburg, Streamwood, Algonquin, Lake in the Hills and Huntley...maybe I will get to see you in Poland 🌞
Martha Mika hi from schaumburg
I lived near St. Hyacinths growing up, and on... Now in Portage Park, I find there a lots of Polish ppl here.. and Jefferson Park, though I'm English speaking only. I have Montrose Deli to walk to... great prices on many things but I learned to go in non peak hours.... my it gets crowded. The staff are way friendlier than that Polish deli on Milwaukee by Central Park... I stopped going there years ago just because of their horrible attitudes.
@@cathyt502 , I am only saying that the Polish community are moving they are moving to the suburbs, sure there is alot of Poles in Chicago but churches in the suburbs are packed at Polish masses and more and more stores and restaurants are out in the suburbs..come and check it out
@@cathyt502 Cathy T - you are absolutely correct about the Montrose Deli !! I'm from Wisconsin and my father was born in Poland; he came to America in 1905 as a little boy w/ his family. Montrose Deli is great for shopping especially since everyone behind the meat counter at the back of the store are bilingual. Do not let the Polish speakers make you hesitate. Step up, pick a number and you will graciously be waited on!
@@mariel9385 Maybe my Busia came the same year... on the same ship. She was 16 I think (born 1887, from Pcim, Malopolskie, Poland I found on the Ellis Island website). She went to work as a cook at one of the downtown hotels not speaking any English.... but she had fabulous stories to tell of her life at that time... esp. of Al Capone. I have a large photo taken at that time of her and all the kitchen staff.
This is was a great video. I live in Chicago and am dating a Polish woman. I want to go to St. Hyacinth. We went to Staropolska and she agreed that is a great Polish restaurant!
I remember flying into Chicago and met a few Polish-American people, very nice and welcome people I must say.
Then I finally got to do a rotation in Poland and I fell in love with the country and people!
I definitely would love to visit Chicago or Poland itself again one day.
I grew up on the northwest side of Chicago. While I'm not polish, I grew up around many poles and really enjoyed your video, altho you missed so many things. The far northwest side is where many poles sttill live.
Time is never a friend during my film adventures
Go to Wisconsin, more Polish live in Wisconsin then anyother state in America. My family last name is Szulc who immigrated from pomerania to Manitowoc, Wisconsin in 1868, many Poles there.
The South Side of Milwaukee STILL is packed with them. Everyone I knew there had an "ski" on the end of their names. They still (I think) say mass in polish in the towns just south of Milwaukee (Cudahy, South Milwaukee, and Oak Creek).
Adams county to be exact has a bunch of us Polaks there. But a good majority have houses there to vacation or rent over there
Szulc is more like german or prussian Schulz, but does not matter 👍. It is great to know family history- in Poland most was lost in war with people ,destruction and replacement😕
Szulc is a Polish surname. Ancestry dna results confirms my eastern european/slavic side as well.
@@12NFLtitles ok 🙂
Thank you.
If you have time you should visit Toronto's Polish area, especially Roncesvalles st. on the west side.
thanks again and all the best to you and yours.
I hope one day you will be able to visit and make video about Krakow, where I immigrated from Toronto, Ontario 3 years ago.
We need more Polish kids
My grandma's sister lived there... :) Thanks for the video
GREAT video, Russell. Chicago's NICE - the street parties/food festivals there are EPIC and feature top-notch Polish and Germany grub IMO . BTW, I agree with your statement at 7:11 - Poles definitely assimilate seamlessly into Murica and make it a better place. Correct me if you disagree, but I think that most Poles are intelligent, hard-working and have a desire to enrich their education - traits which benefit any country.
PS I NEED to get some of that Polish🚰 dishwashing liquid. I'm SURE it's Bardzo dobrze!!
PPS In a few months, the areas you visited WILL be covered by ⛄snow!!😁
I totally agree, Charlie.. 😊😁
I agree w/ you. My grandparents are from Poland; my parents and 5 siblings all born here. I'm 61, still in Chicago. I wish we were taught both languages as children, but we were raised to speak English only. I've noticed many times, and still do, that so many Polish ppl have a negative attitude toward a Polish person who doesn't speak Polish. It's very frustrating to me. Why is that? Why must they have such a bad attitude and give dirty looks? Maybe you can explain it to me. Yes, we are smart and hard working people, as are other ethnic groups that made up Chicago from the early 1900s. ( My son's gf is from Poland, speaks both languages too)
@@cathyt502
That's cool, my grandparents emigrated from Poland (Warsaw) to the USA as well!!
And, honestly, I'm NOT sure how they didn't end up in Chicago as it seems as though that's the Poland > America law. :-) AND, just like your family, no one in my family, unfortunately, speaks fluent Polish as my grandparents were determined to be CERTAIN that ALL of the family members were fluent in English. Talk about hard core assimilation!! I'm not sure why Poles get upset with Polish-Americans for not being able to speak Polish as they HAVE to realize how difficult It is. Unless you grow-up speaking it, I think it's almost impossible to become fluent in Polish. Since I'm eager to visit Poland - especially since watching RUclips channels like Russell's - I'm trying to improve my Polish vocabulary, but it's been tough. Hopefully, the *"Polish For Dummies®"* book I recently picked up will help.😁 Have you ever been there?
PS I'm HAPPY that your son is dating a Polish girl!!👍
@@charlies.5777 Thanks for replying. No, never been to Poland. I'm pretty sure they wanted us to be as American as possible since my Busia had it so hard in Poland on the farm and only speaking Polish when arriving in US at 14: worked as a cook at a downtown hotel. She had fantastic stories to tell, esp. re: Al Capone. I'm honored to be named after her, as I was her favorite grandchild :)
@@cathyt502
Wow,I'm sure those Capone stories were fantastic!! That's pretty wild. Hopefully, we'll both be able to travel to Poland and check it out at some point. I certainly want to take in all of Poland's magnificence and see a lot of Polish museums as I'm a bit of a History nerd. Trying some authentic Polish cuisine and some Polish 🍸 vodka (Na zdrowie!!) Is also on my bucket list.
PS Since I'm the youngest grandchild, my grandma let me know that I was her favorite, TOO!! What a great feeling!! If my sisters only knew!!😁
@Love My Poland!
4:14 Pozdrawiam z Białegostoku. :D
Since joining the European Union there is absolutely no reason for any polish person to move to the USA. We don’t go there because we can’t work there. If we do go abroad. 99% of the time it will be in the EU/EEA/CH region where we can live and work. I don’t know if you know but in the years 2008-2012 120 000 Polish people emigrated from the USA back to the EU. Times have changed. I guess for Asians, Africans and South Americans the USA is still an attractive migration destination but for Europeans it just isn’t.
Poland will surpass Western Europe and the United States. The USA is becoming a 3rd world mixture of South America, Africa, and Islam. Basically like a shithole country. Poland is clean, modern, educated, intelligent, they know who they are. In fact Poland saved Europe from Islam already.
I feel sorry for the 10's of thousands of Russians that moved to our city (just north of Chicago). They got here just as American industry was being moved out of the country to cheap labor places like Mexico and China. They were screwed.
@@badguy1481 Well they can still make money in other industries and the Europeans are very adaptable. They do better then American people. They own nice cars and buy nice homes. Many want to come and work and invest but the Mexicans and central Americans keep coming here illegally then signing up for every welfare program known to man. Legal immigrants don't have a chance. They are going to the UK and Germany now. Nobody needs to put up with the drama here. Even I am leaving the USA. Poland is orderly and immigrants don't walk around with a chip on their shoulder like they own the place. Poles don't play that. They would never allow their culture to become Islamic or African.
Polish people spread out most are in the outer southwest Chicago and northwest and the suburbs
A lot of Polish people live in Lemont Illinois in the Southwest burbs
Not anymore. the Southwest Suburbs is becoming another Islam....
@operation paperclip Not hardly...
Thanks for this! My father's uncles moved here in the 40s. Lived just north of Koz. park. Nice to see!
iwas born and grew up in the late 40s through the 50s in Chicago, my neighborhood was around Milwaukee-Damen& North Ave. which was called the Wicker park area. when we moved out late 50s, it was just about all Puerto Rican...
Lot of us moved to the suburbs. We're over 50 miles out and we have Polish delis here. I don't miss the city. I went to the school run by that church.
I remember Jackowo. I used to go to St Hyacinth school. It's so nice to see those places again.
Buckingham Fountain, Married With Children :-)
Właśnie tak się zastanawiałem czy to nie czasem fontanna z czołówki z Bundy'ch ;)
Haha, that was the first thing came to my mind....Al Bundy....
Very cool! There’s still a polish neighborhood in Philadelphia called port Richmond. It’s not as polish as back in the day but there are still many shops and a lot of polish heritage still seen in that neighborhood
Dziekuje bardzo. Looking forward to this Video
My uncle - is Hungarian - who is living in Chicago for 40 years has a Polish wife. I always remember they mentioned that Chicago has the second largest Polish community after Warsaw.
Hungary & Poland - What a perfect combo for family 😎😎
For decades the Polish cultural center of Chicago was the area bounded by Milwaukee, Ashland and Division streets. Two Polish Catholic High schools: Holy Family and Holy Trinity, Polish language newspaper and many Polish parishes. Now part of Wicker Park an upscale neighborhood, very few reminders of its Polish history remain. The James Stewart movie, Northside 777 was filmed in that neighborhood in 1948.
You could explain some more about the one or another place... Like Kościuszko Park... Who was Kościuszko and why is he polish and us hero?
He fought in wars defending Poland and also in the American Revolution. He came to the Colonies after getting in .... ahem... trouble in France, and when the Revolutionary War began he fought alongside Washington. He returned to Poland and fought even more, but was defeated... but is still hailed as a hero
Incidentally, there is also Casimir Pulaski, a young Polish soldier who also fought against the Russians and later in the Revolutionary war and was killed in action. I am not sure if there is any reference to him in Poland, though. He died when he was 34.
seriously??? Look up US history and you will know. Every US citizen should know who was Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Kazimierz Pulaski! I am not afraid to say that without Koscuszko and Pulaski USA might not have won US Revolution.
@@ebarteldes that's it??? dude, you have no idea who he really was and what he really did for USA??? study before you post.
xywa23 I think a small blurb is enough to get people curious to do their own research. A RUclips comment is not the place for a detailed history lesson.
Oh too bad man 😎 you been already in Chicago🤙 next time I’m buying lunch but in southside 👍
Ps . I’m really enjoying watching your videos!!!! Good job 👏
An other polish place is Norridge Harwood Heights and Duning portage park and some of Belmont-Cragin on Belmont ave
I live there and there is a lot of polish restaurants and my next door neighbors are polish
I have not gone yet, but plan to, to Buffalo , NY. I hear they too have a large Polish population. We had a small one here in Erie, PA, but it's pretty much non existent now except for a few Polish churches, a Polish restaurant and a few Polish delis and that's it. Well and the Polish festival during the summer.
Great video. Got to visit Avondale.
Thanks, Clay! 👍
I love the Red Apple Buffet. When I moved South 200 miles I couldn't go there as much. But I did bring my wife once and she loved it,too! Somuch that we brought home a fewboxesof their frozen perogis. Unfortunately, I hear it closed...I am not sure but I certainly hope not.
Szykago 😊 😋 😎
I call it shitcago, hate that city.
@@sanderus421 why
Śykago is better, in English there is no "SZ" sound.
If you want to go to the Polish Town of today instead of the Polish Town of 20 years ago, head out to Norridge, Harwood Heights, Dunning, etc.
Don't know about now...But 40 years ago, in Harwood Heights, you BET! I got tired of listening to Polish music being played on the radio, on Sundays, while the people there "lounged" in their drive ways!
All of the Poles moved to Chicagoland suburbs. It’s the same story in NY with the Italians. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn used to be one of the most Italian neighborhoods in the country and then most of the people there moved out to places like Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey. Most of that neighborhood now is Hispanics and Asians.
New York has more polish than Chicago aswell
Not just NYC but new York state as a whole has the most polish people in the usa & Illinois 2 nd
I'd like to see a review of polish airports and how they compare to American ones! That's a video you could do on the run and I think it might be interesting
Pineapple Studio they're cleaner and people more willing to help you.
Wrong spot for Chicago skyline. The view is amazing from the lake. The best skyline in North America. Red Apple buffet closed after 30 years. Some businesses are unknown to me however I’ve lived here over 40 years. Never lived in Jackowo or Wladyslawowo. I used to go there years ago. The first Polish neighborhood was Southside Stockyard around 100 years ago. Later , in 50-s it moved to Polish Triangle: Milwaukee, Ashland and Division Streets. And Jackowo, Wladyslawowo followed later. The last 20 years there’s no Polish center. Poles are all over the city and the suburbs living even in very expensive places like Inverness, Barrington Hills, Winnetka, Kenilworth, Hinsdale.
@Adam Barnaby sadly yes, not due to lack of business but because someone wants to develop a condo there and the money was too good to pass up. fortunately they have another location about three to four miles north west on Milwaukee near Irving Park Road. I love that place not only for the food but the neighborhood too. The other one is nice but the neighborhood just isn't the same.
You should have interviewed some people on the streets of these formerly polish areas!
I tried but they refused.. No one wants to be on RUclips it seems...
What about so called "white flight"? I heard this phenomenon is very common in Chicago. Is Jackowo really polish still?
Almost completely dead...
My grandparents came in the early1900s my father was born in Chicago in1907 he went to Catholic school and as soon as he got out he would grab his news papers and come rain or shine sell them the newspapers were 2 cents each and he made 6 cents a week by the time he was13 he made 11 cents a week
All of my grandparents moved to Chicago from Poland in the early 1900’s. Both of my parents were born and raised in Chicago. I grew up in California. I met other people of Polish descent for the first time when I was in college. The people that I met were very happy to meet a fellow Pole! Unfortunately, there aren’t many Poles in California.
Bridgeport on the south side of Chicago is probably the oldest polish area in Chicago and st Barbara's parish
Very Irish .
New Britain Conn,has a large Polish Neighbourhood
My brother, a seafarer told that Polish seamen are great and professional workbuddies.
You should've went on archer ave on the Southside. It has also changed a lot, but in between Harlem and a little east of central, it's still pretty Polish. It's unfortunate, but a lot of the former Polish areas of chicago are changing and the Polish people are moving elsewhere. There are however, large areas of Polish people in the southern suburbs of Burbank, Lemont, Homer Glen, Lockport, parts of Orland Park, and a few other cities. Most of these areas contain the Polish people that formerly lived in that area around archer ave in chicago. These were predominantly highlanders(goraly) They worked hard throughout the years until they were finally able to build or buy a house out in the suburbs, and they moved creating smaller communities of Polish People spread throughout the southwestern suburbs, among other areas.
Yes also there is ALOT of Polish people near Ohare for example like Norridge, Schiller Park, Franklin Park, River Grove that whole area, that's where i went to elementary school and there was alot of Polish kids in the school I went
@@chriss1436 Yes there is, I never said there wasn't. All I said is that he should've gone to the Southside to show the people the formerly Polish neighborhoods that can be found there.
The main area also was Belmont Cragin neighborhood as well as Dunning. Some still are around but we are slowly migrating elsewhere as these neighborhoods are falling apart. Belmont from central up to about Austin had tons of Polish business but a good majority of them closed down. The area has been getting a lot of crime as well as the Hispanic nationalities moving in. South side still has polish people but not sure for how much longer since middle easterners are getting there
@@adrianweglarz4299 yeah we all know what happens on Belmont on May 3rd...... if not just RUclips it and u will see how many young Polish people we have here
Chris S those days are done. This year was horrible and it’s just a bunch of kids running around to spots. No one cruises Belmont anymore if you pay attention next time
I'd love to visit US some day, especially the South.
See Alabama!
Its mostly a shit hole. Poland is much better.
I HOPE you don't mean the "South" side of Chicago! If you do...bring a gun...a BIG gun.
@@badguy1481 are you from Chicago buddy?
@@misiekkkPL Yes....with a HEAVY emphasis on the "from" Chicago. Too big...Too crowded...Too much traffic... for my tastes now.
You should come back for the polish festival, usually the last weekend of august. You didn't go to yadinka bar
BARS are SATANICLY inspired places, I don't recommend them at all if you cherish your soul.
Very interesting content and nice Beach Boys t-shirt :D
Dunning, on the far NW side, has largest Polish population in the city proper of any of the 77 neighborhoods. The suburbs have far larger population, are many places with polish spoken, stores, etc outside this area. Many dozens of churches have mass in Polish. The church you showed in a Basilica (not just a church/parish)
TOO BAD- they should have it in LATIN ( Mass of ALL AGES), Traditional Catholic Mass.
@@marciecorda5209 so no one can understand, great idea. zero Biblical basis for it and why Popes long ago stopped it.
Why are those blue/azure shirts so popular in the USA? I've seen few in this video.
Thanks, I live in Chicago and occasionally go to Avondale.
My childhood (smart aleck friends) used to call the people who lived in that area: "Lugans" (maybe for Logan Square?). If that's "smart aleck" for Polock...I just learned something today (after 60 years!).
Lugans are Lithuanians.
Avondale is pronounced with a short "A" sound, not the long "A" as in Avon cosmetics.
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I’m super late to this video. You picked a good spot. Says the Kowalski from Chi-cag-gooo lol
It looks like the 90s, or at least that's how I imagine the 90s.Well, if anyone is late for the 90s, they can visit Chicago
Bruno's Barber Shop was one of my favorite places in the 90s.
A lot of Polish people from that neighborhood moved further north on Milwaukee Ave. to Niles. You missed Kurowski Sausage Shop man! That's a Polish landmark!
I did it during a 4 hr layover out of Ohare. I'm sure I missed a ton. 😔 Thanks
Chicago rocks!
ROCKS?- its horrible here especially with this ROCK MUSIC histeria .
Białystok pub in Chicago haha sounds good
Białystok in Poland doesn’t have the best opinion. 😆
Next time in the States, you could try Broadway Market in Buffalo. There's lots about it on RUclips. However, the neighborhood isn't the greatest. There is the national shrine to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,outside of Philly, but the that would mostly appeal to practicing Catholics. Most of the Polish neighborhoods in the US aren't much anymore. Polish Hill in Pittsburgh, Slavic Village in Cleveland, Poletown in Detroit......not the same anymore. I suspect most Americans of Polish descent, like my extended family, have become completely Americanized....they eat kielbasa or golubki or pierogi, but that's the extent of it. Nevertheless, thank you for the videos. I learn a lot and it makes me want to visit Poland even more.
Thanks!!!
@@LoveMyPoland Zapraszamy
@@LoveMyPoland nie ma za co
Wow! Russel, I owe you a huge beer (a real shot of Scotch, Kentucky Bourbon, whatever you wish) [BTW: Next Polsh idiom: „Wiszę ci ...” It doesn’t mean KKK warning. No „loops” attached, never! „Przysługa za przysługę” that’s the better feed for translation.]
Back to the topic. There is a lot of nice clever everyday tools offered in USA. The „one dollar bargains” or so. The shipping charges, the single fright costs make them absolutely out of mind. „Paczka do Polski” seems to be a reasonable solution. The US based adress of delivery. And a one huge cardboard box delivered to door. Ingenious!
Love this episode very much but it too short
cool idea, but you arrived like 10-15 years too late. It used to be a thriving Polish neighborhood (like Chnatown) but that was back in 90's and first decade of the new millenium. Now, as you can see it is mostly old generations or shops closed down, plus a mix of other nationalities.
Right, but I was so curious how it was now. Sad sight generally
CHICAGO became marihuana and pervert- friendly city, dangerous to drive Highways at night, Its Horrible here.
sławomir >.<
i come from a village near lublin called jacków. sometimes we'd laugh: jacków, chicago, illinois
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Love your shirt " The Beach Boys"
That's because he gets around ;)
You need to come to Toronto Canada - Missisauga dzielnica has a lit of polish plazas with stores and cafe and businesses of every sort. Then there is the old polish district The Roncessvale and some places along the old Lake Shore Boulevard.
Great video Thanks a lot
We loved going to Bobak's
5:28 is when I find out Ania Dabrowska is touring the US... YES!
Ernest Barteldes shes from my city :p
@@MrCr00wn So is my wife - Chelm, yes?
Yes I love my part of Poland :)
@@MrCr00wn I have been to Chelm four times
4:30 is that the Italian flag with the Polish flag?
Americans may be used to it but I don't know how would I feel if a foreign group came to my town and started to name shops, streets, services etc in an unknown language...
the way he pronounces Avondale is driving me up a wall
Came over in which 80s? Large influx of Poles to Milwaukee I n the 1880s
Those were hard years for Polish people.
@@karinasemeniuk5908 even worse if you were daddy's pride and joy but pissed him off by marrying a German Protestant and got yourself disinherited. Caroline Stripling was a Catholic by the time my mom was born in 1914.
Why is it nearly impossible to a watch a Milwaukee Brewer's⚾ game at Miller🍺 Park®?!
*Because there's ALWAYS a Pole in your way!!*
😁 Sorry for that - I like corny/cheesy jokes!!
PS I'm surprised it's not called Piwo Park!! :-)
Hi there, native chicagoan here. Its AV-on-dale... not A-von-dale
Not even a minute in and I was going to say the same thing
It's a short A sound.. Not long
@@xladydriver I had to stop watching too
You should've gone to Belmont & Central , that's where everyone moved to.
If you want to see Polish traces or communities outside Poland, you should visit Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine ;-)
Did you speak Polish to anyone whilst there?
I did. I asked a middle-aged woman to appear in my video. She looked me up and down and just walked away 😢
@@LoveMyPoland Szkoda! Może niegrzeczny?
On thumbnail there was "Ziemia Moniecka" sign. And here's one funny thing: I was on holiday in Mońki region (pol. Ziemia Moniecka). Więc tak, na znaku jest napisane "Ziemia Moniecka", a ja byłem na wakacjach na ziemi monieckiej xD
When I watch your videos here on RUclips I got "Date beautiful Polish women" add!
This is ridiculous! :D
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We still out here! We haven’t gone nowhere except the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Chicago is just not that attractive anymore to us. The crime rate and the taxes sitting on top of your neighbor etc. We are in Des Plaines, Arlington Heights, Palatine, Mount Prospect and Schaumburg now.
Thanks for the info 👍 😊. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Co sie stalo? (What happened)?
Yes
Ypu missed St. stanislus Kotstka church inthe old Polish Downtown in Chicago.
I was thing this also. I grew up outside of the city , but my extended family stayed in that parish.
You gotta go to Greenpoint
Ernest Barteldes yeah, but just like in Chicago, less Polish people live in Greenpoint. Moved to Ridgewood Queens or suburbs or back to Poland. However it is still the heart of historical Polonia in NYC
@@robson_pl8694 True... last time I was in Greenpoint I noticed how less and less Polish it is, and more hipsters. A lot of Poles have moved to Staten Island, too.
New Britain has large a Polish Stronghold
A lot cheaper to ship to Poland from Chicago then from New York!!!
i used to get my hair cut at bruno’s barbershop, i miss it
😁👍🏻
I been there i think was 88 or 89 life were a little cheaper than Toronto
These changes well represent what US were that days and what it is now. American dream does not exist anymore :-( This is more like south america now...
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THE Amurican dream is STILL alive - although it's NOT thriving - for people who want to work hard and make something of themselves. Unfortunately, however, too many people here now want to be lazy slobs and live by sucking on the government's teat. It's pretty sad, especially since certain American politicians seem To be hell-bent on seeing America fail. I'm not a HUGE Trump fan (I typically loathe ALL politician scumbags) BUT I'm hoping that he's politically incorrect enough to tell people that if you don't have a *LEGITIMATE* reason why you're not working, you won't receive any "public assistance." America's new motto should be: *"If you're a productive, hard-working ,nonviolent individual who'll assimilate nicely into society, COME on OVER. If you're not, then stay away!!"*
The America built by Europeans is coming to an end. The liberals and the Jews hate white Christians. So we should give our energy, creativity, and talents to our original homelands. The USA betrayed white European Americans.
Its worst than that.
Jacek i Wacek, Jackowo i Wacławowo 😂😂😂
nonperson22 no ,this Władysławowo.
@@utahdan231
czyli Władek 😋
@@nonperson22 tak, Jackowo, Wladyslawowo, Stanislawowo, itd... Te nazwy pochodza od kosciolow Sw Jacka, Sw. Wladyslawa, w tych dzielnicach.
Pozdrawiam!
@@eveadam7462
Domyśliłem się gdy Russell zrobił zbliżenie na tabliczkę kościoła. Komentarz dodałem zanim obejrzałem cały filmik.
Staropolska jeszcze jakoś się prezentuje ale cała reszta wygląda jakby właściciele wyjechali z Polski w czasach PRL kiedy szukali lepszego miejsca do życia i zatrzymali się w tych komunistycznych klimatach nieświadomi, że w Polsce dawno wszystko poszło do przodu. Design, warunki do życia, jakość itp. Może i są tam polskie produkty, ale witryny sklepowe wyglądają odpychająco. To nie jest dobra wizytówka Polski. W porównaniu do naszych lokalnych restauracji, sklepów czy "barber shop'ów" to te 'polskie' sklepy w Stanach wyglądają jak zatrzymane w czasie. Polonia w USA mogłaby więcej czerpać z ojczyzny niż tylko wieszać polskie barwy nad sklepowymi szyldami, bo z tego co pokazałeś to tylko wstyd ale chyba już dawno nie zaglądali co to się dzieje na starych śmieciach.
To prawda, szyldy są zapieprzone napisami, mało w tym estetyki, zgadzam się, że Staropolska prezentuje się nieźle, zwłaszcza na tle pozostałych. Ale przejdź się po ulicach swojego miasta (chyba, że mieszkasz na wsi, to najbliższego ;p) i zobaczysz, że wcale nie jest inaczej. Często gorzej
Pieknie powiedziane. W Toronto tak samo. Nie wiem czy to brak kasy, gustu, checi, czy faktycznie brak spostrzezenia ze business nie wygloda ladnie. Pozdrawiam.
Często tak jest, czas dla tych ludzi zatrzymał się w PRL, dlatego wciąż wysyłają paczki do Polski. Ci starsi ludzie nie zauważyli lub nie przyjmują do wiadomości, że Polska to już całkiem inny kraj, niż ten z którego wyjechali.
Bartosz Jasinski
MsLisbeth26
My tutaj w Stanach inaczej patrzymy na to niż Wy Kochani rodacy.
Polska to Polska, Ameryka to Ameryka.
W Polsce jest wszystko robione na wygląd, to co przyciągnie wizualnie. U nas wygląd sklepu nie ma zbytnio znaczenia, ale za to obsługa i ceny w sklepie maja znaczenie, i są bardzo dobrej jakości! 🤗
Cieszymy się, ze mamy polskie produkty, i ze ludzie którzy pracują w polskich sklepach, są bardzo mili i życzliwi, i to robi renomę sklepu, a nie zewnętrzny wygląd.
My jesteśmy przyzwyczajeni do takiej polskości, i większość osób tutaj nie narzeka. A dziwi mnie bardzo, ze rodacy w Polsce narzekają na nasze polskie sklepy.
Amerykanie maja inna mentalność, jak również Polscy, którzy tu mieszkają wieeeele lat tak jak my, cieszymy się drobnymi rzeczami, i jesteśmy wdzięczni. U nas business się kręci, ze tak się wyrażę, i cieszymy się, ze w tych miejscach możemy spotkać Polaków.
My z rodzina trochę lat temu przeprowadziliśmy się do innego Stanu z IL, i tutaj mamy malutki sklepik polski, w którym produkty są naprawdę drogie, ale robimy w nim zakupy, aby choć trochę mieć polskiego dobrego jedzenia na stole 😋😊
Tutejsza mentalność jest taka, ze my cieszymy się, ze szklanka jest do połowy pełna, natomiast Polacy w Polsce, zawsze widza szklankę do połowy pusta.
Narzekanie, to taka Polska cecha narodowa 😐
Pozdrawiam serdecznie 😊
@@MsLisbeth26 Wysyłają i ja też ,ponieważ nie wszystkim ludziom w Polsce nie powodzi tak dobrze jak Tobie.W latach 90 tych wysyłałem 10 paczek z cytrusami w ciągu jednego dnia.Te miejsca były zawalone paczkami po sufit.Cóż wielu Polakòw ma krótką wybiórczą pamięć .Wysłałem paczek tyle,że jak policzyłem na przesyłki wydałem 8000 $ koszt 1 funta 450 g to było 25 centów potem 39 a teraz 59 centów.Dawanie daje satysfakcję.Kiedy wyjeżdzałem w 1985 w Pols e było tragicznie.Teraz oczywiście jest znacznie lepiej i z tego bardzo się cieszę,ale wielu Polakòw pluje teraz na Polonię co czytam na tym utube nie rozumieją przemijającego czasu.Młodzi ludzie czasami są krytycznymi ignorantami i nie rozumieją tego co rozumie moje pokolenie.
Your content isn’t spectacular but it’s unique to the polish RUclips. Good job.
In US city: "I'm going on foot today..."
Two weeks later...
Ania Dąbrowska
FUCKING SLAWOMIR YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME, haha sorry for the caps couldnt hold it anymore, from all of the cool people we have in Poland there is a poster of a fucking SLAWOMIR, a disco polo singer, its like a pop mixed with country and love music in the most cringy way possible