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By Lauren Rapciak Chicago has a new place for aspiring comic artists to learn the trade: the International School of Comics. Its nine Italian locations (known as Scuola Internazionale di Comics) have been educating students for over 30 years. In March, the very first US branch opened in the Kinzie Corridor. It's time more people heard about this p...

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by Kim Mikus   A trip to Japan sparked Tony Volpentesta's entrepreneurial ideas to launch a business making Italian cannolis. Volpentesta was very interested in the simplicity of the food while he visited Japan a couple of years ago. The trip also encouraged him to dive into his Italian roots.   He started making pasta, cannoli a...

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We've been worried about the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame for a while. The Little Italy landmark has been in trouble with its bank for some time now, and the prospect of it being shut down was saddening. But with powerful backers like sports mogul Jerry Colangelo — the man whom the museum's building is named after — it didn't succ...

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After successful visits to the New York tri-state area this past February, and to southern California in April, two important relics of St. Anthony of Padua are returning to the United States for a nine-day tour of Illinois and Wisconsin. The event, organized by the Messenger of St. Anthony magazine directed by the Franciscan Friars of the Pontific...

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by Lee Breslouer   Just because a pizza place has stuck around for a long while doesn't mean its pies are anything special... but mostly it does. We tricked you again, it 100% does! And that's certainly the case with these 21 pizzerias from across the country, all of them continuously in operation since the day they opened so many years ago...

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The Greater Rockford Italian American Association recently held its Hall of Fame and Special Recognition Award Banquet. The organization inducted Louie Miceli into its 2015 Italian Hall of Fall and gave John Terranova special recognition for community service.   The ceremony honors Rockford-area Italian Americans who have made significa...

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Stefani Signature Restaurants founder and CEO Phil Stefani will be the recipient of the 2016 Chicago Classic Award at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's 19th Annual Grand Chefs Gala on Friday, January 29. The Chicago Classic Award recognizes lifetime achievement in Chicago's culinary scene.   Phil Stefani has been a staple of the Chicago...

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By Alana Hudson Torontonians are peppering the culinary landscape here in Hamilton, and though these restaurants do have a big city feel with a funky Steeltown vibe, sometimes you want good, old-fashioned home cooking. Cibo Osteria, just off Main Street East in downtown Grimsby, aims to do just that. We were looking out for it as we made...

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MESA, Ariz. -- Joe Torre, manager of the USA squad in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, believes that players are bound to get a special feeling when they first put on the uniform and embrace the notion that they're representing their individual countries. Torre received firsthand evidence of that excitement recently when he called Cincinnati se...

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by Michael Gebert   Nick Nitti is a guy who owned a pizza parlor, and gave it up to follow his dream of opening . . . a different pizza parlor.   Five years ago, he owned a New York-style slice place near the Board of Trade called Pizza Broker. Then he went to Naples. "I had my first taste of true Neapolitan pizza, and I absolutely fe...

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