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Chicago’s Pilsen: A Neighborhood Shaped by Successive Migration Layers
Pilsen is one of Chicago’s clearest examples of how migration can “write” itself onto a city map. The neighborhood’s name points to Plzeň in Bohemia and is commonly linked to a Czech restaurant/tavern that helped the label stick. Built as a dense working-class district after the 1871 fire, Pilsen later became a major Mexican and Mexican American cultural center, while the Czech name remained. This article follows that layered history through architecture, institutions, displacement, and public culture, with point-by-point sources.
Chicago’s Pilsen: A Neighborhood Shaped by Successive Migration Layers
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