The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, which has been celebrating sports history for nearly 50 years, has found a new home on the Far Northwest Side. The Hall of Fame spent much of the past two decades on Taylor Street in Little Italy, but when the museum’s building was sold in 2019, all of its memorabilia went into storage as the hunt for a new location began.

Ron Onesti, Hall of Fame president, said the organization bought its new location, a former wedding dress shop in Dunning, about four years ago. Part of what sold Onesti on the two-story building at 3417 N. Harlem Ave. was its spacious, north-facing outer wall. This summer, artist Laurynas Buzinskas used the blank wall as a canvas for a vibrant mural featuring 13 Italian American sports icons.