Dallara Car Factory Tour
Tour the Dallara Indy Car Factory in SpeedwayIHSI members will get the opportunity to witness IndyCar chassis being made and produced right in front of their eyes! The Dallara factory isn't like the assembly lines and robot-assembled cars that come to mind when you think of car production; every Dallara chassis is handmade by one of the many qualif...
2013 Italian Hall of Fame awards banquet on Oct. 12
The Greater Rockford Italian American Association will hold the 2013 Italian Hall of Fame and Special Recognition awards banquet at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at Franchesco's Ristorante, 7128 Spring Creek Road. Entertainment will be provided by the Vince Chiarelli Combo. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. The dinner menu will include a combination of chicken, si...
Who Has Chicago's Best Italian Beef? Reviewers Debate at ItalianBeef.com
David Fowler never gets tired of eating — or talking about — Italian beef. The Gold Coast resident is co-owner of ItalianBeef.com — a website devoted to reviewing and rating restaurants in Chicago and its suburbs that serve Italian beef, sharing recipes featuring Italian beef and selling beef. "People love our site — it's all about Italia...
Ferraro elected to top elder law attorney spot
Anthony B. Ferraro has been elected president of the Illinois Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. Ferraro is the founder and managing member at the Law Offices of Anthony B. Ferraro. He received his bachelor of commerce in accountancy from DePaul University and his master of science in taxation. After receiving his...
Marianos new Lakeview digs: much more than a grocery store
By Carole Kuhrt Brewer Mariano's store #38 officially opened in Lakeview yesterday. The grocery chain that has taken Chicago by storm since it opened its first Chicago area location in Arlington Heights only a short six years ago knows what the public wants. Their newest store at 3030 N. Broadway is a combination dining destination and su...
Antico Posto
Walking through the door of Antico Posto on a rainy Wednesday night, we found the place completely packed. Perhaps it was because their weekly Wednesday special is one of the most sought after menu items. Although, after experiencing the scrumptious breadth of their menu, it's entirely possible that it's just always busy. From the wall of...
Salon owner Fred Piattoni, 90, helped promote beauty industry
By Maureen O'Donnell Fred Piattoni operated seven Powder Puff hair salons, headed a top cosmetologists' association and helped draw as many as 80,000 people to Chicago for the nation's second-largest beauty show. During his career, he witnessed explosive growth in the beauty business, thanks to postwar prosperity, product innovations and...
"Don't be stupid, go open!"
By Vikki Ortiz Healy and Joseph Ruzich Stella Albano's Pizzeria in Cicero reopened Friday, serving up giant pizza puffs, spinach, onion and mushroom pizzas and Italian beef sandwiches the way it has for 25 years, because that's what Giovanni Donancricchia — known as "Pa" to his children who will take turns running the place in his absence — would...
Spring Valley residents connect with the past
by Alicia LeGrand-Riniker Investigating your family history has become a popular activity, but not every search leads to an international partnership. Amber Dhesse of Spring Valley loved her grandmother, but when her grandmother passed away Dhesse felt the loss. Soon Dhesse found herself connecting with family she never knew she had....
Across the Oceans to the Land of Mines, a book presentation by Pier Giorgio Ardeni
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - Hours: 6:00 p.m. - Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 Five Thousand Stories of Italian Migration from the Mountains of Bologna and Modena to America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: a book presentation by Pier Giorgio Ardeni This...
Preserving and celebrating Herrin’s Italian heritage
Linda Jennings, director of the History Room at the Herrin City Library, can trace the lineage of many of the Italian families in Herrin and Energy to the tiny northern Italian village of Cuggiono, just west of Milan. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, more than 5,000 immigrants left Cuggiono, searching for better live...
Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco" in Chicago
January 20, 2016 - Wednesday 6:00 PM - Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 - Chicago, Illinois 60611. On the occasion of Lyric Opera's upcoming production of Nabucco conducted by Maestro Carlo Rizzi, The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with Lyric Opera of Chicago, presents...