Iroquois Theatre fire the "Chicago Tribune", one of the "Top Five Funniest Shows of 2011" by WBEZ Radio and one of the "Twelve Outstanding Ensembles of 2011" by "Time Out Chicago"'s Kris Vire. The Ruffians theater company has remounted the production during the Christmas holiday period each year since 2013, mostly with the original cast. Iroquois Theatre fire The Iroquois Theatre fire happened on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. It was the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. At least 602 people died as a result of the fire, but not all the deaths were reported,
Poles in Chicago singlehandedly painted New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois, over the span of three years. While large numbers of Jews from the former lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth immigrated to the Chicago area, they faced a historical trajectory far different from that of their Christian counterparts. In the process of Americanization, many Polish Jews in Chicago would lose their identification with their native land, with notable exceptions. There have also been small numbers of Muslims, mostly Lipka Tatars originating from the Białystok region. Chicago bills itself as the largest Polish city outside of Poland with approximately 1,100,000 people of Polish