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by Valeria Fanelli   Celebrate spring with a musical journey to Italy – through the eyes of composers from northern lands who visited this beautiful and captivating country, at the Mandel Hall (University of Chicago) on April 25, 2015, from 8 to 9:30 p.m.   The German composer Felix Mendelssohn described his "Italian" Symphony No. 4 i...

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What do Microsoft, GE, and the Chicago Police Department have in common? They're all working to reach community and team members in a more meaningful way with the help of a Chicago-born tech entrepreneur with deep Sicilian roots. MeetApp North America co-founder and CEO Sal Camarda has taken his smartphone app from a lean startup to a company...

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Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611   Four women in the same family make ends meet in a small town in Salento during the crippling economic crisis of our times. The failure of a family business and the foreclosure of their house seems t...

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by Casey Cora   The imposing brick building that houses the Old Neighborhood Italian American Club, plastered everywhere with "Members Only" signs, looms large at 31st Street and Shields Avenue.On Saturday, the decades-old men's club is throwing its first-ever Italian Fest and inviting neighborhood residents to get a taste of what they're al...

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After using a derogatory term referring to Italian-Americans during an MLB Network show broadcast at Wrigley Field on Tuesday, Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts issued a statement of apology through the team's website Tuesday night.   The statement was released unsolicited to the website's beat writer Tuesday night, with none of the other media out...

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Date: Tuesday, July 07, 2015. Hours: 6:00 p.m. Site: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago - 500 N Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611. In collaboration with: Co-presented by the Italian Cultural Institute and the University of Chicago Press, with the support of ItalCultura.   "Siena, City of Secrets" (University of Chicago Press, 20...

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In America they sang in Italian. An archive and a book written by Giuliana Fugazzotto sheds new light on American musical tastes of the early twentieth century. In what is perhaps her most surprising finding, she shows how greatly American popular music was influenced by the work of Italians. From about 1900 to 1930, have been produc...

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The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, will present the documentary "L'orologio di Monaco," by Mauro Caputo on Wednesday, Jan. 27th at 6p.m. Holocaust survivor Dov Boros, born in Budapest, will speak briefly before the screening....

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Friday, January 20 - Sunday, January 22. Beverly Art Center, Blair Thomas & co., Istituto Italiano di Cultura/Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in association with Instituto Cervantes de Chicago present: Sonata for 4 feet   Part mime, part contortion, Italy's Teatro dei Piedi (Theatre of Feet) stages characters whose stori...

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Dal 15 al 17 Luglio 2012, si svolgerà a Chicago, Italian Food & Wine Expo, l'evento annuale organizzato dalla Camera di Commercio di Chicago in collaborazione con ItalianExpo.us; l'evento è stato ideato per presentare e promuovere le specialità enogastronomiche italiane di alta gamma.La manifestazione è l'occasione per le aziende italiane di in...

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