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The Casa Italia Library/ Italian Cultural Center (Chicago) announces the release of Italian Women in Chicago, Volume II, Siamo arrivate (We have arrived). This anthology is a collection of stories, spotlights, poetry, and much more. You can order Italian Women in Chicago vol ii from Casa Italia here. Focusing on “Saving Our Stories,” “Pop Culture,”...

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My husband and I became interested in the 1-euro housing schemes in Italy last year but were concerned about investing time and money into a house in a village that was dying out. We are in our early 30s and had read online that the catch to these 1-euro homes was that they're usually falling apart and located in towns that are basically desolate r...

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From Thanksgiving to Christmas, the leap feels almost instantaneous. Time seems to race faster with every passing year, and December feels shorter and shorter. A hundred tasks to juggle, a hundred thoughts swirling. Mornings disappear in a blur, afternoons vanish just as quickly, and days that dragged in November now sprint toward the most dazzling...

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In the spring of 2021, I noticed a new ache in my left hip. Being of a certain age, I didn’t think much of it and chalked it up to simply growing, ahem, older. I was 50. At my next physical I brought it up to my doctor who dismissed it and suggested yoga. So I took up yoga, but the pain was getting worse. I went back to the doctor who then suggeste...

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The exhibit “Traditions and Progress: Italian Americans in Northern Indiana” continues through May 4 at The History Museum, 897 Thomas St. The exhibit features photographs, maps, artifacts and information about the history of Italian Americans in northern Indiana, a press release says. “Traditions and Progress” describes the heritage, values and wi...

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Italian immigration was one of the largest influxes of southern and eastern European groups into Utah. While some Protestant Waldensians from northern Italy had immigrated in the 1870s after being converted by the Mormon missionary program, the bulk of Italians came to Utah during the period from the 1890s to the 1920s in response to demands for un...

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A network of Italian Emigration Museums to enhance the heritage of knowledge they hold. This is the major initiative presented as part of the Italea Project, the program to promote root tourism launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The numbers of the Italea Project, which aims precisely to attract Italians abroad and Italian-descendants inte...

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As I grew up in Highwood, visiting my friends was like being in my own home: the same foods were served, I sat on the same style furniture, and I saw pictures of relatives on their walls posted in a fashion similar to mine at home. The promotional calendars of the local Italian insurance firm hung right next to the pictures of the pope in all our k...

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in recent years, Italy has faced a demographic shift, with a rising number of citizens moving abroad in search of better opportunities, while only a smaller fraction of expatriates chooses to return home. According to the Fondazione Migrantes’ 19th report on Italians abroad, Italy has lost around 652,000 residents since 2020, while the number of It...

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The “Italians in Chicago” traveling exhibit may be appearing at a public library near you in the not-too-distant future, thanks to the efforts of the volunteers at the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia. The idea for an exhibit documenting the Italian-American immigrant experience in Chicago was hatched in 1978 by Dominic Candeloro, who taught...

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