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The Italians in Chicago: A social and economic study (Volume 9 of Special report of the Commissioner of Labor). United States Bureau of Labor. Government Printing Office, 1897. Nelli, Humbert S. Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: a study in ethnic mobility, Volume 2 (Urban life in America Series). Oxford University Press, 1970.
Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to the south.
During and following World War II, many renowned refugee scholars from Nazi-occupied Europe served on the Spertus faculty. Among them were Dr. Fritz Bamberger, who, following his decades teaching philosophy and comparative literature, left academia to run Esquire magazine; and Simon Rawidowicz and Nahum N. Glatzer, who went on to establish the Jewish Studies Department at Brandeis University.
Italians never actually constituted a majority in the polyglot area, [13] but the neighborhood is still home to several Italian-American landmarks, such as the Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei and the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, as well as Italian-American social clubs. Taylor Street is home to the Italian restaurants Rosebud ...
Mallinckrodt College (1916–1991, Wilmette), merged with Loyola University Chicago [4] [5] Mundelein College (1930–1991, Chicago) merged with Loyola University of Chicago [6] Old University of Chicago (1856–1886, Chicago) Robert Morris University Illinois (1913–2020, Chicago), merged into Roosevelt University in 2020
A few blocks north of Maxwell Street are the city's historic Greek and Italian communities. Taylor Street is Chicago's Little Italy, and one can still find Italian cuisine, including pastries and lemon ice. Pilsen, the neighborhood to the south, was originally Bohemian but today is Mexican.
The City Colleges of Chicago is the public community college system of the Chicago area. Its colleges offer associate degrees, certificates, free courses for the GED, and free English as a second language (ESL) courses. The City Colleges system has its administrative offices in the Chicago Loop. [2]
Eastern European Jews made up 80% of the city's Jewish population, which accounted for 8% of Chicago's total residents at the time. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Starting after World War II , wide-scale suburbanization of the Chicago-area Jewish community began, influenced by white flight , the availability of affordable vacant land, and the opening of the ...