Pulaski Avenue

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Pulaski Avenue Soundex Code P420

4000 W. from 6300 N. to 11458 S.

This street's name was changed from Crawford Avenue, which honored an early West Side and Cicero settler named Peter Crawford, to honor Casimir Pulaski, a Polish hero in the American Revolution. But it took nearly twenty years of court battles and ethnic politics to change the name.