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Alexi Giannoulias, candidate for Senator from Illinois, is interviewed by Polvision, a Polish language TV station in the U.S., after he meets with leaders of the Polish community in the board room of the Polish National Alliance (PNA) in Chicago.

Wanda Lorenc and Wladyslaw Mazur (center) are concentration camp survivors and veterans of Poland’s Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Downstate New York Division of the Polish American Congress (PAC). President Frank Milewski (left) and PAC Political Activities Chairman Chet Szarejko (far right) invited them to spend a few moments to tell the children what it was like to live as a teenager in German-occupied Poland in World War II.

Aurelia Pucinski addresses a forum sponsored by the Illinois Division of the Polish American Congress (PAC) during her successful campaign to become the Democratic candidate for Judge of the 1st District of the state's Appellate Court.

Congressman Quigley (right) discusses extending the Visa Waiver Program to include Poland, as well as economic issues facing Poland and Polish Americans, with Polish Ambassador Robert Kupiecki (center) and Artur P. Orkisz (left) of the Polish Embassy. Quigley represents the Illinois 5th congressional district, which has a substantial Polish population.

Rabbi Moses A. Birnbaum welcomed his Polish American guests at the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills. Pictured are (l. to r.) John Gmerek, Chairman of the Holocaust Studies Committee of the Kosciuszko Foundation; Rabbi Birnbaum; Michael Preisler; Frank Milewski, President of the Downstate N.Y. Division of the PAC; and Chet Szarejko, who heads the PAC’s Political Activities Committee. [Photo by Polish American Congress]

Mayor Richard M. Daley greets the Honorable Zygmunt Matynia, Consul General of Poland in Chicago, Frank Spula, President, Polish American Congress, and Dr. Sharon Hahs at the recent PAC National Conference and Symposium of Polish American Organizations. Daley delivered the welcome address at the conference entitled, "The Polish American Community in the 21st Century-Challenges and Opportunities." [Photo by Antonio Dickey, City of Chicago]

Chicago Society Inaugural Ball Reception

The scene is the reception at the Inaugural Ball of the Chicago Society PNA on January 30, 2010, where the year's officers and directors were administered the oath of office. Friends and associates from as far as Wisconsin and Michigan attended the event at the Cafe la Cave in Desplaines, Illinois.

Famous polka bandleader Johnny Bomba, who has not been seen at events recently, seen here with equally well known Chet Kowalkowski, attended the Festival of Polka Bands sponsored by the International Polka Association on January 17, 2010.

The members of Full Circle traveled from the east coast to Chicago to entertain at the Warm-Up Dance the day preceding the Festival of Polka Bands, January 16, 2010, and attracted a very large crowd at Polonia Banquets, site of many polka events and the Polka Music Hall of Fame.

The Dziennik Związkowy, also known as the Polish Daily News, unveiled its new masthead at a reception announcing Comcast's new Polish language TV and radio service. The party, attended by many Polonian leaders, took place at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago in mid-January, 2010.

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