• St. Wenceslaus Church
• Milwaukee Avenue Polish Heritage Corridor
• CTA Blue Line Addison Station
• Mosaic Stations of the Cross (Vatican-made)

Wacławowo takes its name from St. Wenceslaus Church, founded in 1912 as a Polish parish to relieve overcrowding at St. Hyacinth Basilica just to the south, as Polish settlement spread northwest along Milwaukee Avenue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Together with its neighbor Jackowo, Wacławowo forms one half of what Chicagoans call the Polish Village, a name still displayed on street-lamp signs along the district.

The present St. Wenceslaus church building, a Romanesque-Art Deco hybrid completed in 1942, was the first church consecrated by newly appointed Cardinal Samuel Stritch and features a set of mosaic Stations of the Cross executed in Vatican City. After the Solidarity movement of the 1980s brought a fresh wave of Polish political refugees to the neighborhood, Wacławowo remained one of the cultural anchors of Chicago's Polonia.

For anyone whose family found a spiritual home within these blocks, MY-NHD's Wacławowo tee is a way to carry that Polish heritage with you.