Polish food & polka

This weekend, Chicago is celebrating one of its last summer weekend festivals - this one called "The Taste of Polonia." The Polish people of Chicago have a pretty long history here, starting in 1837 with the settlement of Polish Downtown. They settled in 5 areas around town, one of them being prominent in the meatpacking district so much so that Sinclair based his novel "The Jungle" upon Polish characters... (yeah - I'm reading that book right now)
Nowadays, Chicago is the headquarters of every major Polish organization in the US. Polish people are the largest white ethnic group in Chicago, and they claim to have the largest Polish population of any city outside Poland (185,000). Pretty incredible.
So Chris had a great idea to go see all the celebrations and watch some polka. I've always wanted to try Polish food, so of course I was down for it. And the weather was great. I got the "polish dinner" which was polish sausage, sauerkraut, cabbage meat roll, potato pancake and a couple pierogies. That's a lot of food. But good.