By Vince Romano
September 2006
“History should include the stories of those who lived it.” - Lisa Lee, Director of the Hull House Museum. “You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk?” -Full Metal Jacket.
“If our generation doesn’t act now, and act boldly, to preserve and remember and disseminate the Italian American past, it will die.” -Dominic Candeloro, noted historian and writer. Read more…
By Sam “Blackie” Pesoli & Vince Romano
The near-west side became the dumping ground for hundreds of thousands of European immigrants who found their way to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. That mass migration of southern Europeans, necessary to provide the labor force that fueled America’s industrial revolution, ended in 1924. By an act of Congress the further immigration of southern Europeans was restricted.