Forty-two participants in the Chicago Society’s Milwaukee Tour departed the city shortly after 10:00 a.m. on June 16, 2007. Within an hour they were well on their way and enjoying a box lunch prepared by Polonia Banquets aboard the deluxe motor coach.

The first stop was the Polish Center of Wisconsin of Wisconsin in suburban Franklin, Wisconsin, where they were greeted by Terry Witkowski, Alderman of Milwaukee’s 13th District and a Milwaukee Society Member. Inside the beautifully designed building, they were given a guided tour by Michelle St. Marie Baelkow, a former Polish Fest Queen. Then, adding to the gracious hospitality extended to them, Judge Dan Kunkol, another Milwaukee Society member, presented each tour member with a Polish Center coffee cup as a souvenir.

It was only a short trip from the Polish Center to the site of Milwaukee’s Polish Fest, the largest such festival in the nation. Once there, the tour participants were free to go their own way and enjoy the variety of entertainment, music, refreshments and food that was available at the spacious lakefront grounds. They had plenty of time to explore the Fest before returning to the bus at 8:00 p.m.

The participants went their own ways at Polish Fest, so the pictures from that part of the tour are primarily "generic" rather than of individuals on the tour.