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The Highland Park Sister Cities Foundation, winner of Sister Cities International's award for Best Overall Program, brought tenor, Gianni Coletta, from Highland Park's sister city, Modena, Italy to Highland Park to participate in Focus on the Arts and perform at a variety of other concerts. Coletta was honored at a dinner sponsored by the Modenese...

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Italy’s Trentino region is home to over 800 companies in mechanics and mechatronics industries employing the highest number of employees in the Trentino region (almost 10,000) and providing an important contribution to its exports. The Office of the Italian Trade Agency in Chicago together with Italy’s Trentino Sviluppo would like to invite US comp...

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While Beard Award partiers wipe their eyes from a late night on Monday spent at Lena Brava, there’s news on Rick Bayless’ new neighbor on Randolph Street. Reps for esteemed Italian pizza maker Gabriele Bonci have applied for a liquor license for 161 N. Sangamon St., the northwest corner of Randolph and Sangamon. That’s where America’s first Bonci p...

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Herrin (IL) will soon roll out its red carpet for its 2017 Herrin Festa Italiana.  From May 22-29, thousands of visitors descend on this Southern Illinois community to enjoy their carnival, International Bocce Championship, golf tournament, talent contest/ pageants, road races, grand parade, art exhibition, poker run, and lots more.  One of the mai...

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The smell of fresh pesto wafts from the kitchen as Emile Chalouhi and Camillo Villa huddle over the stainless steel kitchen island, weighing ingredients on a small scale and exchanging banter in Italian. It is early afternoon at The Polenta Bar in the West Loop. White chairs and tables sit empty as the restaurant undergoes renovations to make the e...

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When: June 8th at 6pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 - What: Renaissance Cuisine: Banquets and the Food of the Rich a lecture by Daniele Macuglia. Free and open to the public. RSVP at: https://renaissancecuisine2.eventbrite.com The second of two seminars by Daniele Macuglia that explore Renaissance cuisine. W...

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Vapiano, the Italian restaurant chain with a location in The Loop, is opening another Chicago restaurant. Ownership has leased space in the AC Hotel in River North, the same building where SafeHouse Chicago opened in March. Look for a two-floor, 9,188-square-foot restaurant to open this fall, according to REJournals.com. The location at 630 N. Rush...

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The musical version of The Light in the Piazza has had a long voyage from novella to film to the stage. The complex demands behind its seemingly simple songs make it an ideal vehicle for operatically trained singers, or an opera company. For its final production of the season, the Lyric Theatre @ Illinois will use our prime musical talent to bring...

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Two Kankakee County Italian-Americans residents, Jeff Bruno and Joe Armenise, will be honored with Leonardo da Vinci awards. The da Vinci awards, given by the Sons of Italy in America, honor Italian-Americans for achievement. This year, Bruno and Armenise are among a dozen recipients from Illinois and Wisconsin to be honored at a ceremony at White...

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The first time I saw Joe Mantegna in the flesh he was in the flesh, naked as a newborn baby on stage at the Shubert Theatre in a 1969 production of "Hair." It was his first professional acting job in what is now nearly 50 years of steady and acclaimed work on stage, in films and on television. "I have been very lucky," he says on the phone from Cal...

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