This annual ceremony is held so that all GermanAmericans of the Chicago area can honor not only the illustrious General Von Steuben. but all GermanAmericans who have fought. served. and worked to make the United States the greatest country in the world. Today. more than 57 million Americans trace at least part of their ancestry to Germany and many of those are residents of the great city of Chicago. which has long had a most active and vibrant GermanAmerican community. Since the arrival of the first German immigrants in Philadelphia. PA. on October 6. 1683. GermanAmericans have much distinguished themselves by their loyalty to their new homeland and their contributions to the cultural and economic life of the United States of America.
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