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Chicago has a large Czech population [1] (colloquially known as "Czechcagoans").
The First Czechs came to Chicago in the 1850s and 1860s, shortly after the Habsburgs crushed the Czech Revolution of 1848 in the Crown Kingdom of Bohemia. Their Slovak counterparts would arrive in the city about 40 years later in the early 20th Century. [2] They called their first settlement in the city, concentrated around Canal, Harrison, and Twelfth Streets, Praha (Prague), where they would establish several Czech institutions. Later, many of them settled in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, which was named after Pilsen, Czechia. The first Czech Catholic Church, St. Wenceslaus, was founded at De Koven and Des Plaines streets in 1863. America's first daily Czech newspaper Svornost began publication in 1875. Also, common in many Czech-American communities was a Sokol (equivalent to a German Turnverein ), or a gymnastics facility, which fostered fitness and community bonding, located at Canal and Taylor. After the Great Chicago Fire started in Praha, the Czechs then moved south in an area they called Pilsen, especially after Italians and Greeks started moving into Praha.
Tragedy struck Chicago's Czech American community in 1911, when five-year old Elsie Paroubek was kidnaped and murdered. As a result, the Czech American community mobilized massively to help in the searches for the girl and support her family, and gained much sympathy from the general American public. [3]
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