Corrado Parducci: Detroit’s Architectural Sculptor
Event by Detroit Historical Museum and Detroit Historical Society. 5401 Woodward Avenue, 48202. September 27, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30pm. Included with museum admission! Learn more and register here. Join author, photographer, and historian Dale A. Carlson as he explores the life and career of Corrado Giuseppe "Joe" Parducci (1900–1981), Detroit’s most pr...
Tinaglia a good fit as Arlington Heights mayor
Jim Tinaglia, an architect with a long history of community service, was voted in as mayor of Arlington Heights (IL) this spring. When people ask him what it’s like to be mayor, he says that he always tells them his job is 90% wonderful. “People have been so respectful, decent, optimistic and kind,” Tinaglia says. “The 10 percent is the scary part...
Conference / American Boccaccio Association
From September 16 2025 To September 20 2025. Newberry Library and IIC Chicago. The year 2025 marks the 650th anniversary of the death of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), author of the Decameron and foundational author of the European narrative prose tradition. To commemorate this milestone, the American Boccaccio Association (est. 1974) and the Newb...
Chapel in the Meadow: Mass and Picnic
Sunday afternoon, September 14th. The Italian POW Chapel in the Meadow at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Mass and Picnic. Do you know the story? It’s a fascinating slice of Italian American history that not many people know about. Camp Atterbury, located a 45-minute drive south of Indianapolis in Edinburgh, IN, is named after Brigadier General William Wa...
Incoronata prez keeps flame burning brightly
Jim Distasio hasn’t missed the Feast of Maria SS. Incoronata in what is now Chicago’s Chinatown neighborhood since he was a little boy. At first, it was top avoid incurring the ire of his grandfather, who expected every family member to be in attendance at the yearly tradition started in 1897 by emigrants from his ancestral hometown in Italy. “We h...
On Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, ISDA Celebrates Progress and Pioneers Change
Basil M. Russo, national president of the Italian Sons and Daughters of America (ISDA), was elected to his sixth term during the 47th ISDA Biennial Convention, held on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. Since first taking office in 2014, Russo has been unanimously reelected five consecutive times, leading ISDA through a decade of sustained cultural and fi...
Christopher Columbus statue could return to Columbus (OH) in a new park. See the proposal
Reimagining Columbus has unveiled its "generational vision" for a park that includes the Christopher Columbus statue but is not centered on it. Their plan is an approximately 5-acre park designed in a spiral around a circular community gathering space where festivals and concerts could be held. The hope is the park would include access to the river...
Youngstown’s Brier Hill Festival: A taste of Italy in Ohio
If you’re in the mood for Italian, it’s another good week around Youngstown, OH. The Brier Hill Festival is set up at Calvin and Victoria Streets in Youngstown. It’s the 33rd festival in what was called Little Italy. The neighborhood was where many of Youngstown’s first Italian settlers lived. There’s Morra on Friday, a hot pepper contest on Satur...
Fundraising dinner for Italian Cultural Garden, Sept. 4 at Dante
A fundraising dinner for Cleveland’s historic Italian Cultural Garden is Thursday, Sept. 4, at Dante Restaurant in Tremont. Established in 1930, the garden is part of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Money raised will be used for renovations to preserve and enhance its cultural significance. Recent restoration work, t...
Group to present vision for Christopher Columbus statue, but not new location
Five years after the 22-foot Christopher Columbus statue was removed from the grounds of City Hall, Reimagining Columbus is ready to present a vision for how the statue could be displayed in the city again — but don't expect an announcement about where it's going. Just know, it's not going back up at Columbus City Hall. Mayor Andrew J. Ginther has...
IACC celebrates Una Serata Italiana 2025
The Italian American Cultural Club held its 2025 Una Serata Italiana event Aug. 1 at Froehlich’s Classic Corner in Steubenville, OH. Those in attendance had the opportunity to sample various foods, drinks and sweets from three regions of Italy, where the largest number of area families came from, including Abruzzo, Calabria and Sicily. Young people...
Kenosha-Cosenza Sister city mural project
Kenosha Sister Cities has embarked on an exciting new collaboration. We are working with Professor Carey Waters and her students at UW-Parkside to create a mural celebrating our relationship with our Sister City in Cosenza, Italy. Her class will be working with an Italian Mural artist named Carlo Giardina to create two designs, one to be placed i...