{"id":7562,"date":"2016-05-29T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxwellhalsted.publish.uic.edu\/?page_id=7562"},"modified":"2018-10-13T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T17:28:36","slug":"czech-bohemian-americans-pilsen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/home\/alien-colonies\/czech-bohemian-americans-pilsen\/","title":{"rendered":"CZECH-BOHEMIAN: PILSEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe West Side neighborhood was the Prague of the Bohemian people in Chicago. Before the great fire in 1870, the district extending from Canal to Halsted, and from Ewing to Twelfth Street was the largest settlement of Bohemians in the city.\u00a0 After the fire, the population moved south to the Pilsen area, where there grew up a vast colony, &#8216;a city within a city,&#8217; spreading from Halsted To Ashland Avenue, and from Sixteenth to Twentieth Street.<\/p>\n<p>By the turn of the twentieth century, Chicago emerged as the center of Czech-American life, with almost one fourth of all Czechs in the U.S. living in the Pilsen area. \u00a0By 1910 more peoples of Czech extraction from Bohemia and Moravia lived in Chicago than in any city in the world except Prague or Vienna. \u00a0 bjb<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/06\/0270-e1498502431892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/06\/0270-e1498502431892.jpg\" width=\"397\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>INTRODUCTION <\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/ko2kju226y9d1lmuw8iv3vylafuyzopz\">Pilsen Czechs and Bohemians<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/0lg207mm4fh4au3z9xqdrakl57ya38xf\">Lake Street, Lumber Yards and Grain Ele<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/0lg207mm4fh4au3z9xqdrakl57ya38xf\">vators, Pilsen<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/1158.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/1158.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em><strong>PHOTO GALLERY<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/dgr96h6o1didm94ulfzu9eebxtq6v9yo\">Czech-Bohemian: Pilsen<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>WAGE EARNERS (1902-1910)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/1401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/1401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/fdwylogrdomyy15dbzfiy4eaveupxvmo\">Races Shift Like Sand: West Side Scene of Some Strange Migrations (1902)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/z1jrt8yfypu4n5ma93no3ulowqemj0ik\">Employment of Women in Industries, Cigar-Making, Its History and Present Tendencies by Edith Abbott (1907)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/m1to8psjpfshgxti5l99m156m75lofe4\">Nothing Like Race Suicide on Chicago West Side (1910)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>BOHEMIANS, SLOVAKS, CZECHS IN CHICAGO (1895-1925)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/2817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/2817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/0710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/05\/0710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/1nk3awqhxc9v9giwj1famt0j8smqrm1u\">Bohemian People in Chicago by Josefa Humpel Zeman, (1895)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/r6z619jq6s7lut96pjo0a6yes86eqeyb\">The Bohemians in Chicago by Alice G. Masaryk (1904)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/594zy8adnbpigi0vntam6xtfj3kspyt4\">Chicago Housing Conditions: Among the Slovaks in the Twentieth Ward by Helen L. Wilson and Eunice W. Smith (1914)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/e426akncsk3is68rz04gm4zaqaje2v16\">Bohemians and Slovaks, Now Czechoslovaks by Jaroslav F. Smetanka (1921)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/0k8701d1309sdo94j9e5xz15tth01wd6\">The Americanization of Czech Given Names by J.B. Dudek (1925)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe West Side neighborhood was the Prague of the Bohemian people in Chicago. Before the great fire in 1870, the district extending from Canal to Halsted, and from Ewing to Twelfth Street was the largest settlement of Bohemians in the city.\u00a0 After the fire, the population moved south to the Pilsen area, where there grew<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/home\/alien-colonies\/czech-bohemian-americans-pilsen\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":7312,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21251,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7562\/revisions\/21251"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}