[4] They called their first settlement in the city, concentrated around Canal, Harrison, and Twelfth Streets, Praha (Prague), where they would establish several Czech institutions.
Later, more upwardly mobile generations of Czech Americans migrated to Cicero and Berwyn, where many of them took up jobs at the Hawthorne Works Western Electric plant making America's telephones.
[6] In 1915, the SS Eastland Disaster on the Chicago River resulted in the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes, with 844 killed.
[7] Several hundred Czech-Americans were estimated to have been among the passengers who died when the ship, which was transporting a group of Hawthorne Works Western Electric workers and their families for an outing, capsized in the Chicago River.
Cermak was later killed by a bullet intended for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and today is buried in the Bohemian National Cemetery on Chicago's Northwest Side.