page_title: Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago)
section_title: Chicago's Polish Corridor
hierarchical_section_title: Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago) / Chicago's Polish Corridor
caption_attribution_description: Sklep polski na Milwaukee Avenue, w Chicago. Zdjęcie Marta Sehn. Polish shop at Milwaukee Ave, Chicago Ill. Photo Marta Sehn.
context_page_description: Milwaukee Avenue is a street in the city of Chicago and the northern suburbs.
context_section_description: While Milwaukee Avenue has been a route of chain migration for various ethnicities, it is particularly associated with Chicago's Poles who have dominated vast areas of the city which Milwaukee Avenue cuts through. Numerous Polish Patches dotted the cityscape in its vicinity, from Polish Downtown near Polonia Triangle through the Polish Village in Avondale and the adjacent Villa District which journalist Mike Royko christened as "Polish Kenilworth". The street was once used as part of the route for the Polish Constitution Day Parade as well as Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to Chicago. Numerous Polish churches, shops, and cultural organizations such as the Copernicus Foundation, the Chopin Theatre, the Society for Arts, and the Polish Daily News still make their home along Milwaukee Avenue, continuing its Polish presence to the present day.
  A stretch of Milwaukee Avenue in Niles, Illinois was renamed in honor of Wojciech Seweryn in 2011, the Chicago area artist who died in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and dozens of other Polish leaders in Smolensk, Russia.
caption: Polish store along Pulaski Rd. in Jackowo
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