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The Chicagoland Italian American Professionals is pleased to present our 23rd event on March 10, 2017. This event will feature Italian food, wine, networking and 2 Italian operas written by one of the greatest Italian composers, Puccini. The event will start out at Pazzo's on Jackson from 5pm to 7pm and then we will move to the DePaul Reskin Theate...

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The owners of Ferrante’s Restaurant in Mequon credit their success to family recipes from Rome that have remained unchanged for 40 years. "If you would have told me I will be serving my Italian-American fare in 2017 when I opened in 1977, I may not have believed you,” said Amy Ferrante-Gollwitzer, owner of Ferrante’s Restaurant and Signature Cateri...

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A second generation of Arlington Heights restaurant royalty has set up shop in an aging strip mall and is serving well-crafted, familiar Italian fare in a family-friendly atmosphere under the name Via Arenella. Franco Longobardi watched his parents, Mario and Rosa, work in the restaurant business his whole life. He watched them spend long nights on...

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When: Sunday, March 5, 2017 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Where: Navy Pier's Crystal Garden, 700 E Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 Free and open to the public. For more information visit navypier.com/neighborhoods-world  Join us at Navy Pier's Crystal Garden for the annual celebration of Chicago's diverse communities. Over the course of seven weeks (F...

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Augie Morelli built a thriving restaurant business on ripe tomatoes, mortadella, capicola, salami, provolone cheese and Turano bread — delivered fresh, twice daily — and a vinegar-and-oil dressing he dubbed “Love Potion No. 9.” He paid attention to details. When he opened Augustino’s Rock and Roll Deli in West Chicago, he felt the homemade Italian...

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The likes of Spacca Napoli and Forno Rosso have new competition in the Six Corners Shopping District, as the long-awaited Neapolitan eatery Taurus fired up its brick oven for the first time Monday. After ending a two-year legal battle with an absentee contractor, owners Rado and Silvana Vidakovic became the latest entrepreneurs to breathe life into...

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The Illinois Supreme Court has reappointed personal injury attorney Antonio M. Romanucci vice chairperson of its Rules Committee. A founding principal and partner at Romanucci & Blandin, Romanucci has served on the Rules Committee since December 2011. He and 15 other committee members are responsible for analyzing and recommending new Supreme Court...

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John Mirabelli was honored as Man of the Year and Marianne D’Amico as Woman of the Year at the Mazzini-Verdi Club’s President’s Ball in December. John Frank Mirabelli was born on Feb. 28, 1938, at home near Taylor and Ashland. His parents, Enrico and Mary Anne Mirabelli, migrated from Calabria to Chicago in the early 1900s where they raised their s...

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When: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago, IL  Save Venice Inc. and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago are pleased to invite you for a lecture on restoring and preserving the incredibly vast Venetian art and architectural heritage.  Art historian Frede...

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Springfield got its first taste of pizza 70 years ago this month. It was the start of something big. Fred and Anna Viele, who operated The Wonder Inn tavern, 808 E. Washington St., began marketing "La Pizza" as "something new and tasty from Italy" in February 1947, according to advertisements in the Illinois State Journal. Pizza was a "delicious It...

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