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Taylor Street Archives Vince Romano
www.taylorstreetarchives.com
Historic Scrap Book
Vince Romano
1524 So. Sangamon #803
Chicago, IL 60608
312-443-6240 (Business) 312-218-4044 (Cell)
Mission Statement
1. To preserve, for posterity, the names and memories of those
emigrants (along with their offspring) who found their way, from their
Italian origins, to the legendary Taylor Street’s “Little Italy”.
2. To capture, through stories and pictures, how it was, for those
emigrants and their offspring, growing up through a time and in a place
unmatched by any other.
3. To capture, through stories and pictures, how those Taylor Street
children, nurtured through the Great Depression and the Great War
(and other not so visible obstacles of similar magnitude) by their
immigrant parents, reshaped and redefined the subculture that had
been imposed upon them by the greater society.
4. To ensure that our place in the history of Taylor Street’s Little Italy,
the social laboratory of the Jane Addam’s Hull House, is neither
usurped nor redefined by those who were not part of the Taylor Street
experience.