AP® Italian Reading to Take Place in Ohio June 12-18, 2014
The AP® Italian Reading will take place June 12-18, 2014 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the third year after the AP® Italian has been reinstated as a course and, after the excellent results of the two previous years, we are once more all looking forward to this year's Reading with great anticipation. The Chief Reader, the Q...
Italian company plans $17.6M plant, 109 jobs
An Italian maker of molds for the plastics industry is investing $17.6 million in the area and plans to create 109 jobs in the process. San Polo di Piave, Italy-based INglass-HRSFlow recently agreed to terms with NAI Wisinski of West Michigan to purchase land to make hot-runner systems for plastic injection molding in Byron Center Township...
Chicagoland Italian American Professionals presents "Living la dolce vita"
Salvatore J. Sciacca and the Chicagoland Italian American Professionals personally invite you to an exclusive event on July 24th at A Tavola Restaurant: "Living La Dolce Vita" Experience a most memorable evening. Networking in the beautiful outdoor patio Upscale dining at A Tavola Restaurant including a glass of fine wine, grill...
Italy-Based Magneti Marelli Opens Its Manufacturing Facility In Independence Township, Michigan
Italy-based Magneti Marelli Holding USA officially opened its 100,000 square foot exhaust system manufacturing plant located in Independence Township, Michigan. The plant located in suburban Detroit is the first Michigan manufacturing facility for Magneti Marelli, whose North American headquarters is in nearby Auburn Hills. Employing 75 pe...
Eataly Chicago presents Osteria Valentino
For those who want to celebrate Valentine's Day by enchanting their other half with a delightful dinner for two, Eataly Chicago is pleased to offer a unique pop-up restaurant that will be open for one night only: Osteria Valentino. We will combine our restaurants La Carne, Il Pesce, and Le Verdure to create one unique dining room where guests will...
Paulie Gee's to open pizza shop in Logan Square
by Louisa Chu The critically acclaimed and fan favorite pizzeria Paulie Gee's in New York just announced the location of its long-awaited Chicago shop, in Logan Square at 2451 N. Milwaukee Ave., near Logan Boulevard. Before you raise your pizza rivalry pitchforks, these are not New York-style pies. Owner, pizza maker and namesake Paul Gia...
Columbian Club goes to bat for Miseracordia
The Columbian Club of Chicago will host a Sunday brunch at 10 a.m. on June 26 at Miseracordia Home Chicago. The event will feature a performance by Miseracordia's own group, The Heartbreakers, and raise funds to benefit the home's more than 600 residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Proceeds from a split-the-pot will b...
Akron’s Italian-American Festival is the real deal, own son of Italy says
By Ed MeyerRino Ricchiuti, who was born in Italy in 1970 and emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was 15 months old, came to the Italian-American Festival of Summit County with his own family Sunday to savor the friendships he has made here — and the food. Ricchiuti, his wife, Nicole, and their children — Giustina, 9, Lu...
Area Italians gather at Christopher Columbus statue to celebrate shared heritage
Rain could not deter the Italian pride at Laura Bradley Park on Sunday afternoon.Standing under the Christopher Columbus statue that looks down onto West Parkside Drive, more than 30 Italians watched the rainy Christopher Columbus and Italian Heritage Recognition Ceremony. "It's an honor to have a Columbus statue here in a central part of Peoria,"...
Treasure: Sculpture made from Italian marble
by Khristi Zimmeth While many of our homes are filled with holiday decorations at this time of year, large busts and works of sculpture were common sights in upscale homes at the turn of the century, where they were often displayed in formal parlors that received guests. Linda Roach recently brought in a piece of sculpture that her childre...
Baldo (Ubaldo) Campana
Baldo (Ubaldo) Campana, 90 years old, passed away peacefully, at Mercy New Life Hospice in Lorain, on Friday, April 24th 2015. He was born January 1 1925, in Lorain, where he lived his entire life. On August 24 1946, he married his loving and devoted Mary (CambriaCampana Baldo). Baldo and Mary raised five children, Tom, Jim, Joe, Caro...
Italian American Cultural Club planning 90th anniversary celebration for Oct. 11
'Celebrate America' was the theme of the Italian American Cultural Club's July 13 dinner and business meeting held at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville where discussion was held on the club's upcoming 90th anniversary celebration set for Oct. 11 at St. Florian Hall, beginning at 3 p.m. Cost of the event will be $25 for members and $30 for g...