Editing Anton Cermak (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Antonín Čermák birth record 1873 (SOA Prague).jpg|thumb|left|Antonín Čermák birth record 1873]]
Anton Joseph Cermak was born to a mining family in [[Kladno]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (now in the [[Czech Republic]]), the son of Antonín Čermák and Kateřina née Frank(ová).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Baptism records of Kladno Roman Catholic Parish |url=https://ebadatelna.soapraha.cz/d/6393/14 |access-date=May 9, 2022 |website=ebadatelna.soapraha.cz}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/czechs/antonin-cermak-from-czech-miner-to-chicago-mayor|title=Antonín Čermák: from Czech miner to Chicago mayor|last=Johnston|first=Rosie|date=June 18, 2008|publisher=Radio Praha|access-date=December 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bHxcDwAAQBAJ&q=Kate%C5%99ina+(n%C3%A9e+Frankov%C3%A1)+and+Anton%C3%ADn+Cermak&pg=PT130|title = Czechs Won't Get Lost in the World, Let Alone in America: Portraits and Vignettes from the Life of Czech Immigrants in America|isbn = 978-1546238904|last1 = Rechcigl|first1 = Miloslav Jr.|date =2018| publisher=AuthorHouse }}</ref>

He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1874, and  grew up in the town of [[Braidwood, Illinois]], where he was educated before beginning to work full time while still a teenager.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sawyers |first=June Skinner |date=2012 |title=Chicago Portraits: New Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qojgLBuEFEUC&pg=PA65 |location=Evanston, IL |publisher=Northwestern University Press |page=65 |isbn=978-0810126497 |ref={{sfnRef|''Chicago Portraits: New Edition''}}}}</ref> He followed his father into coal mining, and labored at mines in [[Will County, Illinois|Will]] and [[Grundy County, Illinois|Grundy]] counties.{{sfn|''Chicago Portraits: New Edition''|page=65}} After moving to Chicago at age 16, Cermak worked as a tow boy for the horse-drawn [[Streetcars in North America|streetcar]] line,<ref>{{cite book |last=Wisconsin State Assembly |date=1933 |title=Journal of Proceedings of the Sixty-First Session of the Wisconsin Legislature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kPTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA533 |location=Madison, WI |publisher=Democrat Printing Company, State Printer |page=533 |ref={{sfnRef|''Journal of Proceedings''}}}}</ref>{{Efn|A tow boy was positioned with a horse at the bottom of a hill on a streetcar route.  When a car began to ascend, the tow boy would hitch his horse to it and provide extra pulling power to the top, then return to the bottom to await the next car.}} and then tended horses in the stables of Chicago's [[Lower West Side, Chicago|Pilsen neighborhood]].{{sfn|''Chicago Portraits: New Edition''|page=65}} During the early years of his working life, Cermak supplemented his education with evening high school and business college classes.{{sfn|''Journal of Proceedings''|page=533}}