Campus building named after Walesa

A campus building in Chicago now bears the name of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose Solidarity movement in the '80s helped trigger communism's collapse.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa (LEHK vah-WEHN'-sah) spoke at a ceremony at Northeastern Illinois University where the classroom building was named in his honor.

The dedication of Lech Walesa Hall Friday coincided with the 20th anniversary of the end of communism in Poland. Walesa joked that if his father came back to life and beheld some of the dramatic change in Eastern Europe, he would, Walesa said, "die again of another heart attack."

The Chicago campus of the 12,000-student university is near a major Polish neighborhood. Many of the 400 people in the audience Friday were Polish immigrants.