 On September 21, 2015, in Bloomingdale (near Chicago), Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine, consecrated the first North American monument to the Euromaidan "Heavenly Hundred".As of the 2000 U.S. Census, there were 892,922 Americans of full or partial Ukrainian descent.The New York City Metropolitan Area contains by far the largest Ukrainian community in the United States, due to historically receiving the highest number of Ukrainian immigrants.