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By Ray Hanania

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Much is fabricated by the boilerplate account media of some indigenous holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, Fiestas Patrias, and Bud Billiken Day, for example.

Television letters on these and added parades boss the holidays' weekends and the contest accept above coverage, abnormally on TV.

But one indigenous anniversary seems to accept been forgotten, the Houby Day Festival, partly because the indigenous accumulation it is associated with may accept been pushed to the back-of-the-line of indigenous character and activism.

Houby is the Czech/Slovak chat for mushrooms, and it symbolizes a accepted acquaintance for abounding cultures, the Fall Harvest.

Czechs and Slovaks came to Chicagoland in the average of the 19th Century, consisting of bodies from the old Hapsburg Empire in Europe, a Roman Catholic association consisting of Czechs, Slovaks, Bohemians and Moravians.

These Czech immigrants acclimatized on the abreast West Side of Chicago's Loop, in a association they dubbed "Praha," according to Czech historian and biographer Frank S. Magallon. No one remembers the name Praha, but anybody remembers what happened there when, according to Chicago folklore, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow agape over a lantern starting the Chicago Fire there in the Fall of 1871.

The Czech and Bohemian association grew as Praha was rebuilt, and it adapted into Pilsen. Abounding bodies accessory the name Pilsen with today's ample Mexican American association but in actuality the name Pilsen is alleged afterwards a burghal in Western Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

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One of the capital anchorage that cuts through Pilsen and served as the cyberspace for the Western amplification of Chicago is 22nd Street, which years after was alleged in account of a acclaimed Czech ambassador of Chicago.

Anton Joseph Cermak's parents immigrated from the Czech Republic in 1874, and enjoyed a actual acknowledged career in Chicagoland politics, accurate by the ample Czech community. Cermak was administrator of Chicago's 12th Ward, again the Admiral of the Cook County Board, and again Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Organization. In 1931, in the deathwatch of the Abundant Depression, Cermak was adopted Chicago's 34th Mayor, afterwards the arguable Ambassador William Hale Thompson in a political war that disconnected the affecting Irish and Czech communities.

During a appointment by anew adopted Admiral Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Chicago in February 1933, Ambassador Cermak was afraid FDR's duke back an apache ran up and approved to annihilate the president.

No one knows for assertive how it happened, but the gunman's aim was baffled back a woman agape his arm back he fired. The ammo hit Cermak, according to reports. Although theories are abounding that Cermak was the absolute target, not FDR, because the Chicago Ambassador was in the crosshairs of Al Capone's Outfit.

Cermak died three weeks after from his wounds, or complications from Colitis, according to the generally inaccurate rumor-filled Chicago newspapers. But not afore he accurate his acclaimed quote, "I'm animated it was me instead of you" – or maybe the adduce was a conception of the boilerplate abridged account media which thrived in agrarian rumors and typewriter-crafted myths.

Cermak's son-in-law, Otto Kerner Jr., became Illinois' 33rd Governor. Cermak's grandson, Frank Jirka, absent both legs during World War II and was a hero of the Battle of Iowa Jima. He became a doctor and served as admiral of the American Medical Association.

With Cermak's death, and the access of added immigrants into Chicago, the indigenous mural of Chicago connected to change and the able attendance of the Czech's was diluted.

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Pilsen bound adapted into a Mexican adjacency of Chicago, and Czech's connected to move west into Lawndale and after into the suburbs of Cicero and Berwyn.

Many added Czech Americans rose to abundant heights of bulge in every career including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Chicago football drillmaster George Halas, extra Sissy Spacek, Secretary of State John Kerry, astronaut Jim Lovell, amateur Ashton Kutcher, amateur Peter Falk and Admiral Donald Trump's aboriginal wife, the backward Ivana Zelnickova.

The affluent history of the Czech association continues to survive in abounding of Chicagoland's traditions, although they generally do not get abundant attention.

Every year in the Fall, Czech's bless the Fall Harvest division with a array committed to the augment alleged the Houby Day Festival and Parade.

This year is the 49th year of the Houby Day Festival and the array will be held, as it has been over the years, in both Berwyn and Cicero in Chicagoland's West Suburbs.

The array appearance floats and groups from the Chicagoland arena from all indigenous walks of life. More than 25,000 bodies band the array avenue forth Cermak Road alpha this year at Riverside Drive in Berwyn and catastrophe at Central Avenue in Cicero. Anniversary year the array avenue switches starting locations amid the two burghal communities.

Actor Martin Sheen served as the Houby Day Array Admirable Marshall in 2014, and television celebrity Affluent Koz, who plays the "Son of Svengoolie," served as admirable Marshall of the Houby Day Array in 2011.

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Svengoolie's attendance acquired a activity back the Chicago Sun-Times attacked the array organizers for spending $1,000 to buy several hundred "rubber chickens" that Svengoolie anesthetized out to the massive array crowd.

This years 49th Annual Houby Day Array is actuality captivated in account of Fire Departments about the country and Aboriginal Responders and will cap-off a anniversary of Czech and Bohemian celebrations of cultural ball and performances, aliment and ancestors fun. Artisan and aliment vendors will band Cermak Road.

This year's Houby Day Array will activate at 11 am on Sunday, October 8 at Riverside Drive and Cermak Road (22nd Street) in Berwyn

(Ray Hanania is an accolade acceptable above Chicago Burghal Hall reporter. He writes his amalgamated cavalcade anniversary anniversary on ethnic, cultural, political and slice-of-life issues every anniversary at TheDailyHookah.com. Email him at rghanania@gmail.com)

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Originally appear Oct 3, 2017.

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