William Quarter

So we have this kind of invisible impact.

In terms of the people that I think actually are some of the most important people in facilitating kind of an Irish community in Chicago, I would look to the women religious or commonly known as kind of nuns because the Catholic church in Chicago, which is ethnically divided So in the 1840s, when Chicago becomes a diocese, the first bishop, William Quarter, who is an Irishman, he separates the city and its parishes up by language spoken.

So all the English speaking parishes are actually the Irish parishes.

Then you have French parishes, you have German and the Prussian states.

And then what was the name of the fellow who set up the parish system? I find that completely fascinating, Sophie.

What was his name?

So it was Bishop William Quarter, William J.

Quarter.