This is the long-awaited second volume on Chicago Heights in the Images of America series. Chicago Heights Revisited expands on the popular first volume, as the authors cover the period from 1930-1970 in greater detail. What emerges from this wonderful collection of images is a multi-layered portrait of a lively city striving as one to assist in a World War II Allied victory, even while supporting a large spectrum of differing religious, social, and ethnic institutions. When residents remember Chicago Heights, they remember downtown. Images of the Liberty Restaurant, Nick Guzzino’s Barbershop, and Rau’s Toyland will evoke fond memories for past and present Chicago Heights residents. The various industries of the city are captured in historic photographs, reminding us all of the hard working residents that created the thriving community of Chicago Heights. Images of the World War II era capture the contributions that the people of Chicago Heights made for their nation and community.

Chicago Heights Revisited (Images of America: Illinois)

Arts & Photography

Candeloro, Dominic

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing (SC)

The stories of Chicago's Italian communities are an important part of the rich and diverse mosaic of Chicago history. As a rail center, an industrial center, and America's fastest growing major city, Chicago offered opportunities for immigrants from all nations. Italians in Chicago presents an intriguing narrative record of the earliest beginnings of Italian communities in the city, going back to the 1850s. It explores the lives of ten significant members of the Chicago Italian-American community.
This book is a collaborative, cumulative effort, and gives glimpses and echoes of what occurred in the Italian-American past in Chicago. Including vintage images and tales of such individuals as Father Armando Pierini, Anthony Scariano, and Joe Bruno, and groups such as the Aragona Club and the Maria Santissima Lauretana Society, this collection uncovers the challenges and triumphs of these Italian immigrants.

Italians in Chicago (Voices of America)

Arcadia Publishing

Between 1850 and 1870, New Orleans boasted the largest Italian-born population of any city in the United States. Its early Italian immigrants included musicians, business leaders, and diplomats. Sadly, in 1891, 11 members of the large Sicilian settlement in New Orleans were victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. However, by 1910, the city’s French Quarter was a “Little Palermo” with Italian entrepreneur, laborers, and restauranteurs dominating the scene.

Italians in New Orleans (LA) (Images of America)

Maselli, Joseph

Since 1850, Chicago has felt the benefits of a vital Italian presence. These immigrants formed much of the unskilled workforce employed to build up this and many other major U.S. cities. From often meager and humble beginnings, Italians built and congregated in neighborhoods that came to define the Chicago landscape. Post-World War II development threatened this communal lifestyle, and subsequent generations of Italian Americans have been forced to face new challenges to retain their ethnic heritage and identity in a changing world. With the city's support, they are succeeding.

Chicago's Italians: Immigrants, Ethnics, Americans (Making of America: Illinois)

The history of Chicago Heights mirrors the growth and struggles of the entire nation. From determined settlers to visionary industrialists, from the power of rail to the vast intercontinental highway system, this Illinois city of hard workers and dynamic ethnic groups persevered through overwhelming obstacles to claim its place at the center of the Industrial Revolution.

Chicago Heights: At the Crossroads of the Nation (Making of America: Illinois)

History

Paul, Barbara

Americas

Italians have been a part of the Chicago community since the 1850s. The city’s Italian immigration rate peaked in 1914, and many of these new residents settled in neighborhoods on the north, west, and south sides of the Loop and in the industrial suburbs of Chicago. An intriguing visual tour, Italians in Chicago explores the lives of over four generations of the community’s residents and experiences. In over 200 images accompanied by an insightful narrative, this collection uncovers the challenges of migration and ethnic survival as well as the trials and triumphs of daily life.

Italians in Chicago (Images of America)

More than 25,000 Italian immigrants came to Chicago after 1945. The story of their exodus and reestablishment in Chicago touches on war torn Italy, the renewal of family and paesani connections, the bureaucratic challenges of the restrictive quota system, the energy and spirit of the new immigrants, and the opportunities and frustrations in American society. Drawn from scores of family albums, these intimate snapshots tell the story of the unique and universal saga of immigration, a core theme in American and Italian history.

Italians in Chicago: 1945-2005 (Images of America)

Edited by Dominic Candeloro, Kathy Catrambone and Gloria Nardini--- Revised Edition (b) 2019 Published by the Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia. The spotlight has always been on the men. This anthology is a preliminary effort to “write” that wrong and to focus on women in our effort to document and share the FULL Italian experience in Chicago. The purpose is S.O.S.—Save Our Stories! Dominic Candeloro, lead editor, recruited the almost 50 contributing authors; Gloria Nardini managed the section on creative writing, edited individual pieces, and refined the Italian language usage in the text; and Kathy Catrambone edited individual pieces and copyedited the entire volume. Diane L. Cosentino designed and formatted the book for printing. This edition was further formatted by Casa Library publishing. Our contributors include some of the most prestigious scholars in the field of Italian American Studies, experienced journalists, freelance writers, researchers and first-person narrators with varied backgrounds. This book is path-breaking in that it increases enormously the amount of published material on the topic. The names of more than 500 individuals and groups are mentioned and discussed in varying degrees of depth. Inexorably, the history we gathered took the form of biography. Since Italian American history is at risk of being lost, we can congratulate ourselves for capturing and preserving in book form as much as we have. An anthology is a tool that marks out the territory and invites the reader to go beyond the samples, to delve into original sources for a deeper understanding of the subject. The big picture that emerges is a varied one. Chicago Italian women have been ragpickers, needle workers, midwives, labor organizers, farm workers, club women, county commissioners, lawyers, doctors, dentists, writers, entrepreneurs, broadcasters, performers, homemakers, and mothers. The authors of the essays in this anthology are: Theresa Amato, Agata and Rocchina D’Ambrosio as translated by Maria DiMarco, Michael Anania, Tony Ardizzone, Rose Argo, Mary H. Ber, Lisa Krissof Boehm, Mary Jo Bona, Ann Calcagno, Dominic Candeloro, Kathy Catrambone, Gloria G. Coco, Lou Corsino, Pam DeFiglio, Tina De Rosa, Vincenzo DeVito, Chickie Farella, Gloria G. Gugliotta, Concetta Hedrick, Terry CatramboneHeffron, Maria A. Iannotta, Anna Clara Ionta, Valerie Kane, Donna Gabaccia, Fred Gardaphe, Joyce Garro, Diane Ledet, Leonora LiPuma, Carlo Lombardo, Anthony J. Maro, Alessandro Mastro-Valerio, Benedetta Mentensana, as translated by Jeanette Risatti Viehman, Eugene Miller and Gianna Panofsky, Gloria Nardini, Roxanne Christofano Pilat,Tony Romano, Ann Rubino, Christina Ruscitti, Amabile Santacaterina as translated by Jeanette Risatti Viehman, Dolores Sorrentino Sennebogen, Joanne Spata, Karen Tintori, and Domenica Trevor, Judy Valente We also offer a Note on Sources and suggestions for further research which mostly lead back to the Florence Bartolomei Roselli Library at Casa Italia and to the library archival website "Chicago Italian Archives."

Italian Women in Chicago Madonna mia! QUI debbo vivere? (You mean I have to live HERE?)

Literature & Fiction

Catrambone, Kathy

Nardini, Gloria

History & Criticism

Independently published

Between 1850 and 1870, New Orleans boasted the largest Italian-born population of any city in the United States. Its early Italian immigrants included musicians, business leaders, and diplomats. Sadly, in 1891, 11 members of the large Sicilian settlement in New Orleans were victims of the largest mass lynching in American history. However, by 1910, the city's French Quarter was a "Little Palermo" with Italian entrepreneur, laborers, and restauranteurs dominating the scene.

Italians in New Orleans

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

More than 25,000 Italian immigrants came to Chicago after 1945. The story of their exodus and reestablishment in Chicago touches on war torn Italy, the renewal of family and paesani connections, the bureaucratic challenges of the restrictive quota system, the energy and spirit of the new immigrants, and the opportunities and frustrations in American society. Drawn from scores of family albums, these intimate snapshots tell the story of the unique and universal saga of immigration, a core theme in American and Italian history.

Italians in Chicago, 1945-2005

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