RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the .Polish Highlanders'Alliance of America was founded in Chicago in 1929 to organize Polish highlanders spread throughout the United States and Canada, into a single, cohesive highlander family, while promoting their love for the Highlander dialect, literature, and Podhalan art; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance focuses on uniting persons connected with Southern Poland, including Podhale, Orawa, Pieniny and Spisz;,and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance was founded by Karol Stach, Antoni Zygmuntowicz, Franciszek Cyrwus, Stanislaw Tatar, Stanislaw Bachleda, Anna Topor, and Henryk Lokanski; and
WHEREAS, the first members of the Polish Highlanders Alliance were social activists and artists who loved the beautiful highlander world, and who also knew how to translate the beauty of nature into words, dance, music, and song; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance has helped Poland, churches, schools, charity organizations, and young people by sharing love to their homeland, a tradition which its members learned as children; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders' headquarters, known as the "Highlander Home," is located ih the 1,4th Ward alongsArcher Avenue on the Southwest Side, where most of the City's polish community is concentrated; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance has lasted continuously for 87 years arid consists of 86 chapters, including more than 3,000 members; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance has its own radio station, WPNA 1490, and publishes quarterly periodicals to inform the public about current organizational issues; and
WHEREAS, the Polish Highlanders Alliance has perpetuated its love for the homeland by designating a part of Archer Avenue with the honorary name "G6rale 'Ppdhalanscy"; and
BE It RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members of the Chicago City Council, assembled this twenty-eighth day of March, 2018, do hereby support the designation of Archer Avenue, where the Polish H...
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