has suffered from contamination. The Bowman Creek initiative included partners from local high schools, colleges, and business leaders focused on improvements to both the creek and the neighborhoods. The vision for the collaboration is to institute a unique water quality monitoring system, similar to South Bend's combined sewer overflow system. Sister cities South Bend has four sister cities: Częstochowa (Poland) Arzberg, Bavaria (Germany) Guanajuato (Mexico) Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Notable people References Further reading Bodnar, John. "Power and memory in oral history: Workers and managers at Studebaker." Journal of American History 75.4 (1989): 1201-1221. online Breza, Kathleen. "The Polish-American Community in South Bend." (ERIC, 1975). online Esslinger, Dean R. Immigrants and the city: Ethnicity and mobility in a nineteenth century Midwestern community (Kennikat Press, 1975); focus on demography and social mobility of Germans, Poles, and other Catholics in South Bend Fotia, Elizabeth R., and Karen Rasmussen. "The Italian-Americans of the South Bend-Mishawaka Area." (ERIC, 1975) online. "Language and identity of Latinos in South Bend," (Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame) 3#4 (fall 2009) pp 1–16. online Mattox, Jake. The Negro in South Bend: A Social Study Sermon: The Quest of Restless Souls (1922) reprint Wolfson Press, 2009. online review Mize, Sandra Yocum. "Parish History as Theological Resource: A Case Study of Little Flower Parish, South Bend, Indiana." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 105.3/4 (1994): 77-91. online Mize, Sandra Yocum. "Lay Participation in Parish Life: Little Flower Parish, South Bend, Indiana." US Catholic Historian 9.4 (1990): 419-432. online Osterhus, Grace. "City Directories Tell the Story of South Bend." Indiana Magazine of History (1939): 261-281. online Palmer, John. South Bend: Crossroads of Commerce (Arcadia Publishing, 2003) online. Prizant, Yael. "Reimagining the Rust Belt: South Bend, Indiana, and The Citizen Project." Studies in the Literary Imagination 50.1 (2017): 21-43. excerpt Robinson, Gabrielle. German Settlers of South Bend (Arcadia Publishing, 2003). Rotman, Deborah L. "The fighting Irish: historical archaeology of nineteenth-century Catholic immigrant experiences in South Bend, Indiana." Historical Archaeology 44 (2010): 113-131. online Rotman, Deborah L. "Irish-Catholic immigrant life in South Bend, Indiana: refined earthenwares and the 19th-century social worlds of the Midwest." Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 37.1 (2012): 25-44. Swastek, Joseph. "The Poles in South Bend to 1914." Polish American Studies 2.3/4 (1945): 79-88. White, Joseph M. Worthy of the Gospel of Christ: A History of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend: Commemorating the