Pulaski Day

As a small green oasis at a busy urban intersection, Bethlehem's Pulaski Park is easy to miss. Too bad. It's worth sitting there and reflecting on what might have been had Brig. Gen. Kazimierz Pulaski never come to the colonies to lend his military...

Here are the trivia questions I ask Kristen toward the end of the show: What is the descriptive phrase most often applied to Casimir Pulaski’? Which major Chicago street was renamed for Pulaski in the 1930s, touching off a 20-year......

Memorial School  students in Tinley Park are having an especially short week of classes, thanks to the Casimir Pulaski Day holiday on Monday, a blizzard that canceled classes Tuesday, and a water main break and power outage at the school early this...

Chicagoans are used to giving Casimir Pulaski lots of love. But, frankly, you're no one until someone writes a song about you. Well, the Revolutionary War figure has finally hit the big time, courtesy of Kidd Russell, a Highwood-based hip-hop artist and...

MORNING NEWS POLL: Yes: % No: % MIDDAY NEWS POLL: Do you agree with the CPS proposal to elimate school holidays on Columbus Day and Pulaski Day? Yes: 39% No: 61% NEWS AT NINE POLL: Yes: % No: % THANKS FOR VOTING.

The public and members of the media are invited to celebrate Pulaski Day on Monday, March 5, 2012 at 10 am at the Polish Museum of America. The presence of distinguished leaders of national, state, county and city government is anticipated, as well as...

Summit Hill School District 161 school officials intended to discuss common core curriculum implementation, a pre-k program and other matters, according to Monday’s workshop agenda, …...

The Sun-Times reports that Polish and Italian civic leaders intend to fight the proposal to eliminate school holidays on Columbus Day and Pulaski Day. I'll look at Columbus Day in another post (if you just can't wait, here is site......

It's ironic, Dominic DiFrisco and I agree. The announcement that Chicago schools want to start holding classes on Columbus Day and Pulaski Day — traditional ethnic pride holidays for students and local government workers — broke on Friday, the...

Arlington Heights School District 25 is aligning its school year calendar with its feeder high school, but the changes also mean a slightly shorter summer …...

As a recent transplant to South Dakota, the question I'm most often asked (besides "Cold enough for ya?") is what I miss most about my old life back in Indiana. Well, the answer changes from day to day. But I can say, without any doubt, the thing I miss...