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Taylor Street has popularly been known as Chicago's "Little Italy," but several other areas in Chicago have had significant Italian populations. Inner-city enclaves along Taylor Street, Roseland on the Southwest Side and Little Sicily on the Near North Side, as well as enclaves beyond the city limits, such as those in Highwood and Melrose Park ...
Taylor Street: Chicago's Little Italy (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing, 2007. ISBN 0738551074, 9780738551074. Gardaphé, Fred L. and Dominic Candeloro. Reconstructing Italians in Chicago: Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches. Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia (Chicago), October 5, 2011. ISBN 0983553807, 9780983553809.
The new Chicago Westside Music Festival occurs annually in Garfield Park. [60] Festa Italiana occurs every year in Little Italy, near the location of the Taste of Greektown. In Little Village, the Festival de la Villita takes place along 26th Street
Some sources have the Jousters forming in the 1960s, but evidence has come to light recently, that seems to point to the fact that the Taylor Street Jousters started in the 1950s, around the area of Taylor and Oakley in Little Italy, Chicago, Illinois. One piece of that evidence is a photograph of members called Little Bill and Big Bill at the ...
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The Hall of Fame and museum was located in a 44,000-square-foot (4,000 m²) building on Taylor Street in the heart of Chicago's "Little Italy" neighborhood from 2000 until 2019. [2] The Hall of Fame is now based on the city's north side.
The event runs Wednesday through Saturday at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 4705 Fairhaven Ave. NW. Festival hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Wednesday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 11 p ...
Taylor Street (1000 S) was the port-of-call for Chicago's Italian American immigrants and became known as Chicago's Little Italy. Italians were the only ethnic group that remained after the exodus of Jews, Greeks, Irish, etc. that began shortly before the Great Depression of the 1930s.