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    Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries...
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    Other: Little Italy, Clinton, in Indiana Little Italy, Chicago, in Illinois Little Italy, Arkansas Little Italy, Baltimore, in Maryland Little Italy, Wilmington...
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    January 3, 2019. Retrieved January 2, 2019. "Little Italy". "Littly Italy, UIC". Explore Chicago. City of Chicago. Archived from the original on December 21...
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    brunch menu. Richard Melman expanded LEYE's Italian division in 1991 by opening Maggiano's Little Italy in Chicago. According to the company's history, the...
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  • Little Italy is a 2018 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, with a screenplay by Steve Galluccio and Vinay Virmani from a story by Virmani....
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  • Chicago and its suburbs have a historical population of Italian Americans. As of 2000, about 500,000 in the Chicago area identified themselves as being...
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    Little Italy, sometimes referred to as College Street West, is a district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its Italian Canadian restaurants...
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    (September 18, 2013). "Rundown of Chicago Italian Neighborhoods and churches: There was never just ONE Little Italy in Chicago". Retrieved March 17, 2023. "U...
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    belonged to Eleanor. 1910 – Chicago police arrest over 200 known Italian gangsters and Black Hand members in a raid in Little Italy. However, none are convicted...
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    and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 119. ISBN 0-2263-2784-1. Italy Architecture: Neoclassicism Archived 28...
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  • Mario Anthony DeStefano (category Chicago Outfit mobsters)
    DeStefano, he later anglicized his middle name. DeStefano grew up in Little Italy, Chicago, with his brothers, including future "mob associate" Sam "Mad Sam"...
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  • a Big Surprise", "Little One", and "Take Me Back to Chicago"—with the former reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100. Chicago XI would become the...
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    immediately west of downtown; Little Italy, along Taylor Street; Chinatown in Armour Square; Polish Patches in West Town; Little Seoul in Albany Park around...
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  • operated from Chicago's Little Italy and maintained control over the Unione Siciliana. They were allies with fellow Italian gang the Chicago Outfit. After...
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  • Illinois at Chicago saw La Guardia ranked as the best American big-city mayor to serve between the years 1820 and 1993. The first Italian to reside in...
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    Carl Bonafede (category Musicians from Chicago)
    Carl Bonafede was born in the Little Italy Chicago community on October 16, 1940. He appeared as a young boy on local television on Morris B. Sach's Amateur...
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  • Established initially as Alta Villa by the Italian immigrants who settled there in 1915, Little Italy is an unincorporated community in Pulaski and Perry...
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    2015. Chicago Historical Society: Global Communities in Chicago Project The Italian Community of Chicago The German-American Community of Chicago The Jewish...
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    organizations of Little Italy. In later years, the Outfit consisted of various street crews controlling different territories around Chicago including Elmwood...
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  • some 5.3 million Italians went to the United States. Like many ethnic groups who emigrated to the Americas, such as the Germans in Little Germany, French...
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    Little Italy as a top ten Little Italy in America. Askmen.com ranked Cleveland's Little Italy #3 out of 10 in their list of "Top 10: Little Italies"...
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    Italian Americans just east of Roseland in the Kensington community. While some Italians of southern Italian origins came to the area from the Little...
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    hundred years. Today the Chicago area possesses the largest Lithuanian community outside Lithuania, who have dubbed the city as Little Lithuania, and many...
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    Joe Mantegna (category Male actors from Chicago)
    in Chicago, to Italian American parents. His parents were Mary Ann (Novelli; 1916–2017), a shipping clerk from Acquaviva delle Fonti, Apulia, Italy, and...
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  • of Italians, it also included some Mexican Americans, reflecting the ethnic diversity of the area, which was recognized as one of Chicago's "Little Italies"...
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    Jerry Colangelo (category Sportspeople from Chicago Heights, Illinois)
    culture and heritage. Colangelo was born and raised in Chicago Heights, Illinois, to an Italian-American working class family. He played basketball and...
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    Christopher Columbus Statue located at Columbus Plaza in Arrigo Park, Little Italy, Chicago. Temporarily removed by orders of Mayor Lori Lightfoot on July 24...
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    transported by ship. Little Sicily in Chicago was also located in River North. The first Italian Roman Catholic Church in Chicago was Assumption, on Illinois...
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    Colosimo immigrates to Chicago, Illinois from Calabria, Italy Machine Gun Kelly, Prohibition era gangster James Belcastro, Chicago Outfit enforcer Frank...
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