Last month, the Lion Tales Settlement Spotlight shared the history of Luxembourgers in Aurora, Illinois, one of the largest settlements of Luxembourgers in the Midwest, and its Luxie Club, the last Luxembourgish social hall still operating in the U.S. This second...
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Beginning in 1850, two significant waves of immigrants from Luxembourg found a new home in Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, about 40 miles west of Chicago. Many of the Aurora’s early settlers came from the Canton of Echternach, including the villages of...