Chicago Museum mystery solved.

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Imagine the shock when a Chicago antique dealer realized he had stumbled on artifacts stolen from Chicago's Polish Museum decades earlier.

According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, an antiques shop in Chicago was approached about purchasing some old documents filled with Polish surnames and the signatures of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. They asked for $2,000, but the store paid them $4,000. Then the owner started doing some research, which prompted him to contact the Polish Museum, the president of which, in turn, contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Eventually, the items were recovered.

The museum's president reportedly...