$5M in stolen artifacts returned to Polish museum

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CHICAGO (AP) — More than 120 stolen artifacts worth as much as $5 million have been returned to Chicago’s Polish Museum of America.

The FBI returned the letters and documents dating to the 18th and 19th centuries to the museum on Wednesday. The museum’s president, Maria Ciesla (chess LAH), says she was “hoping against hope” the pieces would eventually be found. The FBI says they went missing in the 1970s or 1980s.

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