2023 Week of Italian Language in the World: Italo Calvino’s Animals
Conversation with Serenella Iovino. Friday, October 6 at 5:00pm CT. DePaul Art Museum - 935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), the IIC Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University, presents a series of lectures o...
Naked to the Water(s): Early Christians Between Baths and Baptisms
Monday, October 02, 2023 at 4:00 pm CT. Entrance: Free. Loyola University, McCormick Lounge. 1000 W Sheridan Ave, Chicago IL. Presented by prof. Stefania Santelia. The ancient Romans particularly loved the thermal baths: for centuries, they were a place of physical well-being, socialization, and relaxation for everyone, men and women alike. However...
Italian American Future Leaders Seminar a Pivotal Success in Detroit
Basil Russo, John Viola, and the IAFL team conducted a special seminar in Detroit last weekend at the request of Italian Consul Allegra Baistrocchi. Its purpose was to bring together future leaders of the Italian American community and offer them a platform to collectively express their pride in their heritage, to formulate plans as to how they can...
Italian Festival set Friday in Collinsville, IL
Collinsville will be celebrating their 40th Annual Italian Festival in Uptown Collinsville from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. starting Friday, Sept 15 and going into Saturday. Come partake in Collinsville's annual Italian Festival celebrating Italian heritage and the history of Collinsville. Italian Fest is a family-friendly event. The annual celebration falls o...
Italian American Veterans ‘Festa Italiana’ scheduled for Sept. 16
Italian American Veterans Post 1, 4567 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain, is bringing the Italian-American community together Sept. 16. The group’s annual Festa Italiana will feature traditional Italian music, food and a bake sale, organizers said. Bambi Dillon, a member of the Italian American Veterans, said the group is looking forward to one of its largest...
The Strange Tale of The Italian Bride, Whose Final Resting Place Is Mount Carmel Cemetery In Illinois
One of the most well-known residents of Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, is the notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. While the cemetery is mostly populated with dead gangsters, there is another significant figure buried at the cemetery who did not become famous for organized crime. And that individual is none other than Julia Buccola Pe...
Students remember Italian professor Tiziana Serafini for passion, service
Italian professor Tiziana Serafini, a voice for those caught up in the Italian refugee crises who was known to teach yoga classes in her native tongue to her students for extra credit, died in Rome from cancer Aug. 20. She was 62. Serafini spent most of her time in the classroom since coming to Notre Dame in the fall of 2016 instructing courses for...
Italian Fall Festa Kicks Off Friday in Dayton With Carry Out Lunch
Order Sons of Italy - Dayton/John Pirelli Lodge #1633 kicks off their 46th annual Fall Festa by offering lunch to go this Friday with pick up from 11am – 1pm. The actual Festa kicks off Friday night at 6pm runs through Sunday at 8pm. It’s a weekend full of Italian music, delicious Italian food, good friends, and a fun game of Bocce on the beautif...
Festa Italiana guide for the festival’s 43rd edition in Milwaukee
In yet another sign that we’re in summer’s winding-down period, Festa Italiana returns this weekend, Sept. 8-10, to close the book on what’s considered the city’s modern ethnic festival lineup. The first Festa took place back in 1978, when members of Milwaukee’s Italian community revived the traditional neighborhood festivals that started in the ea...
Maria Santissima Lauretana fest, held in Niles, marks 400 years since origin in Italy
As the 123rd annual Feast of Maria Santissima Lauretana got underway in Niles Friday, the Sicilian Band of Chicago played and marched down the festival midway, stopping before an elaborately decorated shrine tent. The band serenaded those inside, many sitting in front of large stands of red flowers, others lighting candles and still others lined up...
St. Jude's arm is going on tour: Catholic church announces relic's first-ever tour of US
For the first time, the arm of St. Jude will leave Italy and tour churches, schools, prisons, and more across the United States beginning this month, a Catholic evangelization ministry announced this week. The relic of one of Jesus' 12 apostles, considered to be the patron saint of hopeless or difficult causes, is scheduled to first stop at St. Joh...
The Consulate of Italy in Detroit is getting ready for the second edition of LoveITDetroit, with an installation dedicated to sustainability, 12 sectoral events and a metaverse with the exhibition "Fashion Panorama - The Italian New Wave" in collaboration
After the success of the 2022 edition, the Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan are about to launch their presence at the Detroit Month of Design through the project called “LoveITDetroit”, that, in its second edition, won the grant "City of Italian Creativity in the World" established for the first time by the...