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On March 11, 1957 a gang of Chicago teenagers assaulted and killed a sixteen-year-old African American boy, Alvin Palmer. Many of the members of the 'Rebels', a street gang from the Back of the Yards neighborhood were Polish Americans and members of Sacred Heart Parish. The paper looks at both the gang and the neighborhood in an attempt to see the effects of assimilation on Chicago's Polonia. Chicago's...