National Guard Brigadier General John Fascia

Jul 23, 2018 514

John Fascia was born in Chicago and lived in the Italian neighborhood of Lexington Street and Kedzie Avenue for several years until the family moved near Homan Avenue and Roosevelt Road. His father, Leonard Fascia, immigrated from San Marco la Catola when he was 16 years old, and his mother, Antoinette Riccio, was born in Chicago. He has one sister.

Most of his mother’s large family lived within a few blocks. “You never took the car anywhere,” Fascia says. “Pa would just grab you and you’d be walking down the street.” Both parents loved to cook and had a small garden. “We had vegetarian meals three or four times a week,” he says. “They were real meals in themselves.”

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