Little Italy 5K helps out local dance team
Day two of the Little Italy Festival has wrapped up for the night. The fun picks back up on Sunday. On Saturday, activities started bright and early with the Little Italy 5k. The South Vermillion Middle School Dance Team and the Clinton Breakfast Optimist Club hosted the event. The one mile and 5k was open to all runners of all ages. For many, the...
The Historic Flight of a Flawed Aviator
July 15, 2018, marked the 85th anniversary of the first large-scale trans-Atlantic flight. Yet few Americans have ever heard of the event. One reason may be that Italo Balbo, a member of Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime, spearheaded this trailblazing aerial trek. The world is grateful that Fascism has long since been cast into the ash heap of hist...
3-Foot-Long Pizzas Could Make this River North Italian Restaurant Different
In a neighborhood full of Italian options, chef Joe Farina is giving River North another with Victory Italian, a spinoff of his South Loop restaurant, Armand’s Victory Tap. Farina’s new restaurant opens on Monday at 434 W. Ontario Street. The former Rosebud chef described it as a neighborhood restaurant that gives River North a refreshing change of...
Road construction impacts Clinton's Little Italy Festival
For more than 50 years, Labor Day Weekend has been Clinton, Indiana’s "time to shine." That's with the Little Italy Festival. The festival celebrates the Italian immigrants who founded the community. Of course, the amusement rides are a huge draw to the festival for kids and adults alike. But this year, there was a bit of a hiccup in the set-up. N...
Mino's Italian in Winnetka tries to make dinner an experience
When Eric Fosse and Glenn Deutsch teamed up to open Mino's Italian in Winnetka, they decided to create a restaurant they wanted to eat at. "We built this based on what we wanted," said Deutsch, a Winnetka resident. "We didn't mold this into what we thought would possibly satisfy every person. We found out a lot of people wanted that as well." Since...
Artistica Italian Gallery Acquires Deruta of Italy
Artistica Italian Gallery, a family-owned importer of Italian home decor for over 28 years, announced that it has acquired the assets of New York-based Deruta of Italy, the oldest B2B distributor of hand-painted ceramics and majolica from the medieval hill town of Deruta, Italy, into the United States. Coinciding with Deruta of Italy’s 35th anniver...
Danny Boys Italian Eatery Review: All about the pizza
The great thing about pizza is that even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good. So, when a pizza is genuinely delicious, like the offerings at Danny Boys Italian Eatery, it’s something you want to eat again and again. This review wasn’t my first experience with Danny Boys—the Frank Sinatra themed restaurant has six locations around Northeast Ohio a...
Italian Art at EXPO Chicago 2018
Follow Giovanni Aloi, Art Historian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, on a tour of the most exciting modern and contemporary artists whose legacy and originality represent Italian art on the contemporary international scene. Tour limited to 25 people. Registration deadline: September 28th. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and publ...
Women’s Club a force for good in NW Indiana
The Italian American Women’s Club of Lake County, Indiana, is seeking women of “Italian heritage or espousal, from ages 16 to 116” to join their organization. The group hosts a dinner meeting on the second Thursday of the month at the Villa Cesare Lodge, 900 Eagle Ridge Dr., Schererville. The next meeting is Sept. 13. “The club’s goals are to have...
Screening of "The sense of beauty" (2017, 75 min) by Valerio Jalongo at Gene Siskel
Friday, September 28 at 6pm - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N State St, Chicago, IL. Chicago Premiere! Director Valerio Jalongo will be in attendance! Presented on the occasion of EXPO Chicago, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. A quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe through an audacious experiment conducted b...
Agnes ‘Aggie’ DeBartolo, a renowned Chicago ballroom dancer, teacher, dead at 93
Franz Benteler owned a 1701 Stradivarius, and he played for five U.S. presidents — but Aggie DeBartolo made him forget all about his violin. “Benteler said, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’ve got a chance to dance with Aggie’ — and he flings this instrument over to my father at the Daley Plaza. He takes off dancing with my mother,” said her son Bill. Mrs. DeBartol...
MART and Museion: modern and contemporary art in the Italian Dolomites
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 6:00 pm. Entrance: Free. Location: Italian Cultural Institute - 500 N Michigan, #1450. Presented on the occasion of EXPO CHICAGO. Daniela Ferrari, Curator at MART Museum of Trento/Rovereto and Frida Carazzato, Curatorial Assistant, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano will participate in this event....