Polish flag with mourning ribbon on the front of Polish-American grocery store Shop & Save at 5829 South Archer Avenue, Chicago.(Photo by Leonard H. Cizewski.)
Garfield Ridge, a southwest Chicago neighborhood just west of Midway Airport, is home to recent immigrants from Poland and descendants of previous ones. I lived there in the 1960s and 70s and relatives still do.
I visited this week and saw homes, businesses, and cars displayed the flag of Poland with mourning ribbons for the deaths in the tragic plane crash near Smolensk, Belarus. Poles, including one from Chicago, were traveling to a 70th anniversary memorial service at Katyn where Soviets massacred captured Poles in the early days of World War II.
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