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For Wendy Snyder, La Grange resident, Brookfield native and popular radio personality at WGN Radio AM720, life isn't as much about a box of chocolates as it is a spaghetti sauce she makes from scratch. It's a family recipe, but one that includes ingredients from multiple family members, shared, sampled and perfected over time in that way that famil...

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Friday October 6, 2017 - 6 PM to 8PM. Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago - 500 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450. Chicago, Illinois 60611. RIGOLETTO. "QUEL VECCHIO MALEDIVAMI: A CURSE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES THROUGH THE LENS OF VERDI'S MUSIC". Maestro Marco Armiliato in conversation with Maestro Emanuele Andrizzi. As part of its 2017/18 season, Lyric O...

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Il CTIM parteciperà con una delegazione guidata dal rappresentante Carlo Vaniglia alla prossima parata del Columbus Day che si svolgerà a Chicago il 9 ottobre. “Ci uniremo – si legge in una nota – assieme alle altre organizzazioni italo americane ed Associazioni Italiane ed ai Rappresentanti dei Comites che credono nei valori della difesa delle tra...

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Javier Baez broke the code of silence when he mentioned to reporters the latest thing for a Cubs team that designed a Party Room for their state-of-the-art clubhouse at Wrigley Field, turned Jason Heyward’s Rain Delay Speech into World Series mythology and interviews each other in the dugout for pretend TV segments after hitting home runs. “He does...

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During his lifetime, the beloved Roman Catholic priest and friar known as Padre Pio was believed to levitate, heal the sick, read minds and bilocate — the power to be in two places at once. Since his death in 1968 and his canonization in 2002, believers say at least two of those gifts endure. Through prayer, the faithful still believe Padre Pio wil...

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The owners of Pizzeria Da Nella have jumped from the North Side to the South Side, as on Friday they’ll open Nella Pizza & Pasta on the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus. Owners Frank and Nella Grassano closed their acclaimed Lincoln Park location after six years as they prepared to open a new Neapolitan pizzeria. The couple’s pies are among...

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Despite backlash from members of the local Italian-American community, Chicago aldermen are proceeding with their proposal to rename Balbo Drive and move or modify the Balbo Monument, memorials to a henchman of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The tributes were added shortly after Italo Balbo, a leader of the Blackshirts paramilitary units and la...

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The Comboni Mission Center will honor Rose Mary Ranallo on Nov. 25 at Porretta’s Banquets in Chicago. (708-450-9050) Ranallo is the chief financial officer and manager of her family businesses, NS Builders and Arno Decorating. A resident of Schaumburg, she grew up in Chicago and Elk Grove Village with her two sisters, Josephine and Lisa, and her pa...

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Campana will be back in the news on the entertainment front, where it once was synonymous with the longest-running show in the golden age of radio. “The First Nighter Program” aired from 1930 to 1953 and carried the name of the Batavia beauty products manufacturer across the nation. Actors will re-enact several of the scripts Sept. 22 for Water Str...

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Prepare for the annual return of the famous S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna-sponsored Italian chef congress Identita Golose, as it makes an exciting foray stateside this October. Increasing its American presence the haute cuisine congress will take on three USA cities this year: Boston, Chicago and New York. Unmissable masterclasses, seminars and dinn...

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