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part 1: essential resources
part 2: towns and neighborhoods
Essential Resources:
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Italians in Chicago 1945-2005 Arcadia
128page pdf
Italians in Chicago book Photos
folder with photo images
La Tribuna master folder images of the newspaper
9page 1921 pdf [other folders in process]
Screenshots from Chicago Newspaper L'Italia 1880+
many images [some items not dated]
Struggling in Chicago - - Italian American labor movement --by Eugene Miller and Gianna Panofsky
294page pdf
Italian Americans in Business [ppt powerpoint presentation]
ppt
Clemente [ppt powerpoint presentation] Behind the lines in Italy
ppt
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(most videos are now on the AboutUs page)
Videos
2007
August 2007 - Florence Scala video clips [see also several links in the "People" section]
Italian language version of "Chicago's Italians: Immigrants, Ethnics, Americans" --Candeloro
48page document in Italian
Resources Mixed Formats
La Parola Bicentennial 439page pdf
Vecoli Dissertation Italians in Chicago Prior to WWI 1963 U of Wisconsin
491page pdf [requires downloading to view]
The Italians in Chicago, a study in Americanization, Schiavo, Giovanni Ermenegildo
website for text now freely available digitized at HathiTrust.Org
An Immigrants Story – The Trolley Dodger Colletti
website
What Luigi Basco Taught America About Italian Americans -Candeloro
8page document
Miscellaneous
Alpha List of Italians in Chicago 1860 by Giovanni Schiavo
2page document; Giovanni Schiavo
1930 Selected Directory of the Italians of Chicago
92page pdf; with images of an original by Lisi Cipriani from the University of Illinois Chicago archives
first published by the Italian Consolate
Communes Of Italy - Issue List
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
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:
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.