WW I & Ethnic Chicago-- Part 5: Magyars and Jugo-Slavs

In fact, by now the tide of war had changed.

The German offensive had been stopped and Austria-Hungary, Germany's main ally, was on the verge of collapse.  There were wild celebrations in Chicago's Slavic neighborhoods, understand that their homelands would soon no longer be under Austrian or German rule.

A Polish nationalists asked:  "What is Austria-Hungary?  A degenerate crippled empire, ruled by Germans and Magyars against the will of the majority of its population, composed of Czechs, Jugo-Slavs, Poles, Roumanians and Italians."

--Cooter