• Over the years Chicago has been called home by many immigrant groups and cultures, the Welsh included. Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen, whose grandparents...
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    Eisteddfod Maps of American ancestries Welsh settlement in the Americas Welsh History in Chicago Chicago Welsh Societies Chicago Tafia British Americans Cornish...
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    American Welsh Argentine Welsh Australian Welsh Canadian Welsh Chilean Welsh history in Chicago Welsh immigration Welsh Italians Welsh New Zealander Y Wladfa...
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  • of people with Welsh origins in Chicago. These are the Chicago Tafia, the Cambrian Benevolent Society of Chicago, and the Women’s Welsh Club of Illinois...
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    The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the Province of Pennsylvania, a British colony in North America (today a U.S. state),...
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    dishes that can be considered Welsh due to their ingredients and/or history, dishes such as cawl, Welsh rarebit, laverbread, Welsh cakes, bara brith and Glamorgan...
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    Y Wladfa (redirect from Welsh in Patagonia)
    Wladfa (Welsh pronunciation: [ə ˈwladva], 'The Colony'), also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig (Welsh pronunciation: [ə wlaˈdəχva ɡəmˈreiɡ], 'The Welsh Settlement')...
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    Welsh wrote on Twitter: "dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today." On October 8, 2011, Welsh was...
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    Mary Welsh Hemingway (née Welsh; April 5, 1908 – November 26, 1986) was an American journalist and author who was the fourth wife and widow of Ernest Hemingway...
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    The history of African Americans in Chicago or Black Chicagoans dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable's trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable...
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    social and cultural well-being of Chicago from its very beginning. Poles have been a part of the history of Chicago since 1837, when Captain Joseph Napieralski...
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    The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society (also known as the Chicago Tafia) is an expatriate Welsh group formed in Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1999. As one of the...
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  • Chicago and its suburbs have a historical population of Italian Americans. As of 2000, about 500,000 in the Chicago area identified themselves as being...
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  • ethnic groups in Chicago has varied over the history of the city, resulting in a diverse community in the twenty-first century. The changes in the ethnicity...
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    The Welsh traditional costume (Welsh: Gwisg Gymreig draddodiadol) was worn by rural women in Wales. It was identified as being different from that worn...
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  • estimate of the Jewish population in metropolitan Chicago is around 319,600, according to Brandeis University's Chicago Report. The population of Jewish...
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    culture. Artists and writers drew on the traditions of Gaelic literature, Welsh-language literature, and Celtic art—what historians call insular art (the...
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  • The 1904–1905 Welsh revival was the largest Christian revival in Wales during the 20th century. It was one of the most dramatic in terms of its effect...
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    The Church in Wales (Welsh: Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed...
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  • The Chicago metropolitan area has an ethnic Chinese population. While historically small in comparison to populations on the coasts, the community is...
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    (approximately 1 in every 10 Bosnian immigrants to the US) in the state and 8,200 in Cook County alone. The largest concentration of Bosnians in Chicago live on...
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    The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is...
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    Welsh dishes as a whole are generally associated with simplicity. Welsh cookery is thought to be similar to English cuisine in style. There are few written...
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  • came to the US in the late 1800s. By 1914 approximately 1,000 Albanians resided in greater Chicago and northern Illinois. Most worked in factories, restaurants...
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    Welsh–Ryan Arena is a 7,039-seat multi-purpose arena in Evanston, Illinois, United States, near the campus of Northwestern University. It is home to four...
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    Pioneer Zephyr (category Passenger trains of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad)
    Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), commonly known as the Burlington...
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    Freddie Welsh (born Frederick Hall Thomas; 5 March 1886 – 29 July 1927) was a Welsh World boxing champion. The lightweight boxer was born in Pontypridd...
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  •  23. Reetzke, James. Biographical Sketches: A Brief History of the Lord's Recovery. Chicago: Chicago Bibles and Books, 2003: 29. Print. Al-islam.org [1]...
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  • people in Chicago are an ethnic group in the Chicago area. Around 5,000 to 10,000 Roma reside in the Chicago area. Romani people first came to Chicago in the...
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    Lithuanians in Chicago and the nearby metropolitan area are a prominent group within the "Windy City" whose presence goes back over a hundred years. Today...
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