TSA head asks Hull-House to include more about Italians

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June 30, 2011

By Susan Fong

Vince Romano, founder and editor of the Taylor Street Archives (TSA), wants the Italian-American history of the Near West Side featured more prominently in the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, which is owned and operated by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

Romano was reared in the Taylor Street area. Since 2004, the historian has been writing and editing his own vignettes, collecting other people’s memoirs of the neighborhood’s Italian heritage, and preserving both in the TSA. Read more…

The most important criticism is the failure to reference the symbiotic relationship that existed between Hull House and the residents of “The Hull House Neighborhood.” Quoting the Taylor Street Archives: UIC: Flawed Hustory, Taylor Street’s Little Italy was the laboratory upon which the Hull House elite had tested their theories and formulated their challenges to the establishment. Read more…

January 20, 2011

Presentation to the U of I Trustees

Chicago Campus

Vince Romano

The Hull House Museum, under the guardianship of the UIC, is the primary outlet for the dissemination of information to the public.  Consistent with the code of the International Community of Museums, the Museum preserves the legacy of the Jane Addams Hull House and the Neighborhood it served. Read more…

By Vince Romano

September 2006

By Matt Piechalak:  UIC Chicago Flame

September 25, 2006

Slicing through the heart of UIC ‘s east campus is Taylor Street. Yet, few remaining residents still refer to this heart as the place once proudly called ‘Little Italy. ‘ Today, an effort is underway to preserve the memories of this once Italian-American neighborhood with the introduction of the Taylor Street Archives. Read more…

By Vince Romano, June 2005

I grew up in Taylor Street’s Little Italy, the Hull House neighborhood.  I share this with the other members of the Taylor Street Archives. I’m sure there are many stories that have come out of the old neighborhood.  This story I cherish.  I have given it a chapter in my memoirs:  “Over the Fence is Out!

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By Vince Romano

November 4, 2004

In 1912, Jane Addams and Mrs. Louse DeKoven Bowen purchased the 72 acre site on the north end of Waukegan, IL, to add to the recently completed13 building Hull House complex on Chicago’s near-west side. Jane Addams, who had become one of the premier sociologist of her day, recognized the potential of a summer camp that could provide a change of environment for the inner-city slum dwellers who made up ‘The Hull House Neighborhood.”

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