Essential Resources

Communes Of Italy is Italian Genealogy, culture and all things Italian. It was published bi-monthly between 1998 and 2010. Each issue includes detailed information about a featured province and once each year an Annual Surname List is included. All 76 issues are available and some may be purchased. A great resource for beginning and advanced genealogists as well as those interested in an in-depth look at a particular province or area.

Italians in Politics in Chicago and Illinois

13page document

1933 Italian Telephone Directory of Chicago

"World's Fair Edition"

physical copy at our archives

(a few pages of the original are missing)

Audio

Videos

Mar 31 2012 - Genealogy Update - Dan Niemiec and Tony Maro

See also 2022 Geneaology Event Video with Dan Niemic and John Cavalone

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Towns / Neighborhoods of Italian Origin

texts:

Chicago’s Italian Communities and the Chicago Area Project --PPT by Robert Lombardo

Chicago’s Little Sicily by Robert M. Lombardo Ph. D. Loyola University, Chicago -Lombardo

12page document

The Hill Chicago Heights

muti page pdf [requires downloading to view]

Italians in Chicago 1850s-Present powerpoint presentation --PPT by Dominic Candeloro

Gli italiani nei sobborghi: Chicago Heights, 1890-1975* by Dominic Candeloro italian version

Italians in Chicago Hts --Candeloro

36page pdf

Highwood Community newpaper collection

folder with many newsclip images

Melrose Park -- Napolitano Market [Trib2017 via rtf document file]

1 [or more] page document

PIZZONESI DI CHICAGO Frank Cesario -Franco Cesario, 7 Gennaio 2013

4page document in Italian

Robert Cross article--Trib. A long, long way from the Mezzogiorno 1977 --Cross

feature article on Chicago Italians

missing2020Nov https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6zkETXc_kkhRVc3WFpKT2Nndlk/view?usp=sharing

The Marchegiani in Chicago Heights 1893-1997 --Candeloro

17page document

There was never just ONE Little Italy in Chicago --Candeloro

18page document

audios:

Chicago Italian- Americans At Work [wav audio file]

audio file

DeBenedetto-Pizzone, Emilio -- 2-1987 interview [wav audio file] -- persons from Pizzone

audio file

Pancrazio, Dominic -- part1 Chicago Heights interview 1980Mar03 [mp3 audio]

Pancrazio, Dominic -- part2 Chicago Heights interview 1980Mar03 [mp3 audio]

audio files

offsite links:

the old Mother Cabrini neighborhood and The Saint Philip Benizi parish on the Near North Side of Chicago

website

Little Sicily, St. Philip Benizi Parish, Fr. Luigi Giambastiani;

and the Loyola 2013 Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference

References:

Cologero

Lombardo

Bart Lollino "Little Italy" Barbershop Closes

website

repost from CBS

more places identified, see also our webpages menu: audio interviews

videos:

1978

1978 video about Sicilian village of Altavilla Milicia near Palermo and the city of Chicago

This video documents the close and enduring connections between the Sicilian village of Altavilla Milicia near Palermo and the city of Chicago. Among other things, it's a story of an ongoing chain migration that began in the late 19th century and continues in the 21st. It also shows how the traditions of the old world can flourish in the new. Among those featured in the video, a compilation of three stories that aired on Chicago's WMAQ-TV in November, 1978, are Joseph Camarda (proprietor of Joseph's Finest Meats (7101 W. Addison) and the late Anthony Scariano, long time Illinois State Representative and Judge of the Illinois Appellate Court. Production credits: George Peebles (camera), Dick Smith (field tape and audio), Deb Segal (video editor). Written and narrated by Rich Samuels.

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