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…

By Vince Romano

Collaborator:  Johnnie Parise

September 2006

The historic significance of the Dante School yard dates back to the turn of the century and then some. It shares center stage with the Jane Addams Hull House (circa 1889), Halsted Street, Greek Town, Maxwell Street, and Cinder Stadium. While one could make a sociological, philosophical or political connection that extends as far back as Dante Alighieri’s literary works, we will confine our story to the Italian American experience of growing up in the legendary Chicago’s Taylor Street neighborhood.

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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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