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Lithuanians in the Chicago area
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 the Chicago area possesses the largest Lithuanian community outside Lithuania,〔Čikagos aidas. (The Lithuanian Market ). Retrieved on 2008-09-04〕 who have dubbed the city as Little Lithuania, and many Lithuanian-Americans refer to it as the second capital of Lithuania. Lithuanian-Americans from Chicago have had a significant impact on politics in both the United States and Lithuania.
==History==
Lithuanians have been documented as arriving in the US since 1918, when Lithuania re-established its independence from Imperial Russia.〔 Although this is the first official record, Lithuanians began arriving at least two decades earlier; however, they were listed as Russian citizens.〔 This is compounded by the fact that, prior to Lithuanian independence, most if not all official documents were written in Russian, Polish or German. Thousands of Lithuanians have since moved to Chicago, providing a good source of labor for the growing city. The Lithuanian community in Chicago was most famously immortalized by Upton Sinclair in his 1906 novel about the treatment of workers in the Chicago stock yards, ''The Jungle'', whose story revolves around telling the life of a Lithuanian immigrant named Jurgis Rudkus.
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