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The 38th annual Roma Lodge Italian Festival returns to Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., Friday through Sunday, July 29-31. This year's festival is again all about traditional Italian foods, entertainment and family fun. To show its gratitude for 38 years of support by the community, Roma Lodge will again present fireworks from Bartolotta Fireworks...

The Brier Hill Italian Fest will return this week with four straight days of music, food, dancing, bocce and morra tournaments, a wine contest and a hot pepper contest. The event, which begins Thursday, sprawls over a few blocks at the intersection of Calvin and Victoria streets in the Brier Hill neighborhood of the North Side. The hillsi...

ABC7 Chicago to feature live broadcast of Columbus Day Parade from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. On Channels 7 and 7.2 Monday, October 10, 2016. ABC7's Alan Krashesky and Janet Davies to host parade along with Windy City Live's Ryan Chiaverini.   ABC 7 CHICAGO, the official station of the 64th annual Columbus Day Parade, will present the parade live, Mon...

Chicago Sister Cities InternationalFriday, June 21, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CDT)Chicago, IL Join the Milan Committee of Chicago Sister Cities International for the opening reception of the exhibition Wings of Italy: Italian Aeropainting from 1910–1935.One of the earliest and most effective means of mass communication, the poster was the perf...

A gala celebration of the 75th anniversary of Viva La Panza drew 650 men to Todaro's Party Center in Akron Wednesday evening. Presented by the Italian-American Professional and Businessmen's Club and the House of LaRose, the event is the premier fundraising and networking event of the Italian community. Ralph Trecaso, who chaired the event along w...

Youngstown, Ohio, never developed a centralized little Italy. Instead, the city's mostly southern Italian settlers chose to live near the foundries, rail yards, and steel mills where Germans, Spaniards, Welsh, Slavs, Irish, African American, and others also called home.   Of these the two most iconic neighborhoods that boasted large Italian...

The Amici Club is a social organization for anyone wishing to enhance their appreciation of Italian heritage and culture. The club was founded by Maria Mastrolanardo, who moved with her family to Naperville in 2004 from an Italian neighborhood in Chicago. Disappointed she could not find stores that sold the Italian foods she was used to, Maria...

Marino Soave escaped life in war-torn Italy to pursue the American Dream. He came to Detroit with family values, work ethic and determination. That was a foundation for a family that would develop many new homes and businesses in and around Livonia – including Primo's Pizza, one of the city's legendary eateries.   Mr. Soave died Saturday fr...

When: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PMWhere: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago, IL What is it about Parma? An opera town like no other, Parma and its magnificent Teatro Regio enjoy fame -- some would say infamy -- as the "toughest", most passionate and best-informed opera audience in the world. Fi...

Visit Detroit's Italian sites on this bus tour from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tour leaves from Eastpointe at 16600 Stephens Road (one block from Gratiot). The tour will include a luxurious coach bus, significant Italian homes in Grosse Pointe, the Italian Art Collection at the DIA, lunch at Mario's and more.   Visit Lake Shore and Jefferson th...

When: Friday, November 18, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PMWhere: Eataly, 43 E Ohio St, Chicago, ILOn the occasion of the Week of Italian Food in the World, (November 14 - 20, 2016), the Italian Cultural Institute and Eataly are pleased to present THE ROOTS OF ITALIAN TASTE: REVISITING SEVEN-THOUSAND YEARS OF CULINARY TRADITIONS. &...

The Little Italy festival is in full swing in Clinton. From carnival rides to two stages full of entertainment, this annual event has something for everyone -- and every stomach.   This weekend, this isn't the town of Clinton -- it's Little Italy, Indiana. "I look more forward to this more than Christmas!" said Robert Stultz. ...