According to the last U.S. census, 18,000 Italians live in Cook County. That number includes Italian immigrants and Italians born in the United States. The group makes up the second largest European population in Cook County, just after the Polish.

Giuseppe Quercia, from Naples, Campania, moved to the United States in 1968 with his family. Today he owns Freddy's Pizzeria, in Cicero. Every day a line of costumers forms at his pizza business to buy his Italian food, but life in America wasn't always easy for him.

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