North Italian Club Celebrates 100 Years
The North Italian club celebrated its 100th Anniversary on Sunday May 4, 2025 at the St. Adelbert Hall in Berea, attended by 255 happy members and guests. A delicious dinner was served, following appetizers, an opening prayer given by member Frank Pocci, and a toast made by the Event Chairman Joe Lucchese, whose many efforts made for a beautiful ev...
Celebrating Italian Speed in the US
Dallara and Purdue University started their engines on an innovative partnership at Indianapolis 500 race weekend. The Dallara IndyCar Factory will serve as the new home for Purdue’s motorsports engineering program and pairs Purdue’s unique motorsports engineering program — the only undergraduate, ABET-accredited such program in the country — and D...
Retired DePaul women’s basketball coach Doug Bruno
After 39 seasons of exemplary leadership on and off the court, Doug Bruno has stepped down as the head coach of the DePaul women’s basketball team. Through his long career, Bruno established himself as one of the most prominent and influential figures in collegiate women’s basketball. He was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2022...
Visit Detroit Signs Global Partnership with Juventus FC in Italy
Visit Detroit, which promotes metro Detroit as a convention, business meeting, and tourism destination, will be featured on the front of Juventus Football Club’s jerseys as part of a new multi-year agreement. Visit Detroit will serve as Juventus FC’s Principal Destination Partner, becoming the first active convention and visitors bureau to receive...
Dean Martin Hometown Festival Returns to Steubenville – June 12-14, 2025 for a stellar Celebration of the King of Cool
The Dean Martin Association, the City of Steubenville, Ohio and The Harmonium Project is proud to announce the return of the highly anticipated DEAN MARTIN HOMETOWN FESTIVAL set to take place June 12-14, 2025. This annual celebration pays tribute to the legendary singer, actor, and entertainer Dean Martin, one of Steubenville’s most cherished nativ...
Rock icon Danny Seraphine
One of the architects of the iconic rock group Chicago, Danny Seraphine has never lost touch with his roots on Chicago’s Far Northwest Side. Danny Seraphine first picked up a set of drumsticks at 9 years of age, beginning a musical roller-coaster ride that gave the world some of the best-loved pop hits of our lifetime. Sixty years ago, the 17-year-...
Anna Maria Schultz Wins Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan Vocal Competition
Anna Maria Schultz, a high school senior from Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan is the $1000 First Prize Winner of the 31st annual Italian Songs and Arias Vocal Competition for Michigan High School Students. The Concert of the Finalists of this event, sponsored by the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan, in collaboration w...
Opera Festival Of Chicago brings back The Love of Three Kings after 70 years
The Opera Festival of Chicago will open its fifth season on Friday, May 9 with a performance of The Love of Three Kings (L’Amore dei tre Re), bringing a long-lost Italian masterwork to the Chicago stage for the first time in 70 years. The season offers opera lovers a rich lineup of rarely performed works, bold storytelling, and thrilling music acro...
Team Italy spark plug Nicky Lopez joins hot-hitting Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs signed versatile infielder Nicky Lopez to a one-year contract on April 23, 2025 after releasing him earlier in the spring. The Cubbies initially offered a minor-league deal with an invite to Spring Training on February 7, 2025, but the 30-year-old utility man was one of the final roster cuts before the MLB Tokyo Series against the...
Italian American Sports Hall Of Fame Moves To Dunning, Anchoring Northwest Side’s Growing Little Italy
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...
Book Presentation / “Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection” by Antonio Fava
Event date: The May 14 2025, 18:00 (Local time) - Place: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - For a fee: No Antonio Fava, Maestro of Commedia dell’arte, will present his book “Vita Morte e Resurrezione di Pulcinella” (Pulcinella’s Life, Death and Resurrection) at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Laughing Stock Th...
5 early contenders for Italian Bowl XLIV this summer in Toledo
The Italian Bowl makes its return to the University of Toledo’s Glass Bowl on June 28, following the success of the 2023 championship game held in the Glass City. On July 1, 2023, the Italian Bowl XLII took place at the Glass Bowl as the first Italian Bowl played outside of Europe. Tens of thousands of fans participated in the advance and game-day...