What Chicago is talking about this week:
It's PULASKI DAY on Monday! School are closed, city government takes a holiday, and no trash is picked up in honor of one of the most famous Poles (up there with Polanski, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa and the North and South ones). Why do we celebrate him? Because he is the "Father of American Cavalry" and we remember our Revolutionary War heroes, dammit! Why do we really celebrate him? Because Chicago has the largest concentration of Polish people outside of Warsaw. To which I say, "Na zdrowie. Vivat!" and to which I do not say any of the jokes I learned in my youth. Now please click on the link for your history lesson -- and take special note of the old school music!
http://www.eiu.edu/~insight/pulaski/pulaski.htm
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