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Main Street Opera and Casa Italia proudly present......Puccini's TOSCA! Full Dinner and Opera on Friday, June 7, 2013, at the Festival Center at Casa Italia – 6:30 p.m. 3800 W. Division St., Stone Park, IL 60165   Tickets (including sit down dinner) $50 Per Person in Advance $60 per per at the door. Limited Reserved Seating   Click...

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by Megy Karydes   Make no mistake, Chicagoans love their beef. Perhaps it's because Chicago's food ways have a brawnier feel to them, owing at least in part to the city's former glory as the center of the meatpacking world.   While you won't find one in Italy, why do men and women travel for miles to enjoy an Italian beef sandwich in...

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In an Italian family, the celebratory ritual of creating and sharing the meal trumps all. In my own family this has also been the case.   Providing and preparing delicious nourishment can become an event that connects the members of a family in the present—while linking us to our shared past, and to those no longer at the table. In the act o...

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About 1,000 people came out Sunday to support Mokena's first Festa Italiana. After the Mokena Lions rolled up the carpets from the Firecracker Dance on Saturday night, the Mokena Downtown Merchants Association and Knights of Columbus rolled out the welcome mat Sunday.   Organizers of the two events found a way physically and financially to...

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The Northwestern University Music Academy Chorus and Chamber Choir -- a group of 30 or so community members, faculty, staff and students who sing recreationally -- will perform a concert of Italian songs, choral works, arias and madrigals.   The fall program of Italian music is titled "Italian Salad," in honor of the opera parody by Prussian...

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Father Tony Pizzo, O.S.A., has been an ordained priest for 30 years and a member of the Midwest Augustinians for 35 years. He is currently assigned as Pastor of St. Rita Parish in Chicago, where he has been serving since June, 2006.   Under his pastoral leadership, St. Rita has been actively involved in community organizing to seek solutions...

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Ted Lega of Joliet is being honored at 34th Chicago Music Awards, in Chicago IL, March 15 with a life time achievement award. Lega spent 34 years at Joliet Township High School Central. He started a band program at Richland School in Crest Hill, He spent nine years at the Troy Middle School, retiring in 2014.   He graduated from Joliet...

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Italian classes start up again the week of January 13th! Daytime, evening, and Saturday classes are all available. ENROLL ONLINE TODAY! Learn more about ItalCultura, the official language school at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.   The upcoming Winter session will run for 10 weeks. January 13th - March 22nd. Daytim...

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by Daniel Gerzina   There will be some more changes at Cocello very soon. Brendan Sodikoff's Italian reconcept of Dillman's that opened last year in River North will discontinue reservations (the last date available is June 6, according to OpenTable) and close for a few days at a very soon but undetermined date in order to become an Italian...

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Chicago Shakespeare joins the Italian Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago to commemorate the Year of Italian Culture in America. First written and performed in Milano in 1948, Inner Voices tells the story of a man who dreams the murder of a friend so vividly that he believes the crime has actually been committed b...

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