A piece of Lithuania in the heart of Chicago
The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture provides a piece of home to Lithuanian immgrants. A drab building complex in Chicago's West Lawn houses the offices of powerful Chicago Democrat Michael J. Madigan, aka the Velvet Hammer, speaker of the Illinois house. His office sits on the second floor of the somber edifice at 6500 S. Pulaski , its exteriors brown and gray and respectable.…