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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.
Gabaccia, Donna R. "Inventing “Little Italy” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 6.1 (2007): 7-41. Gabaccia, Donna R. "Global geography of ‘Little Italy’: Italian neighbourhoods in comparative perspective." Modern Italy 11.1 (2006): 9-24. online; Garroni, Maria Susanna.
The neighborhood is traditionally an extension of the Little Italy neighborhood to its east, although it has consistently been one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Chicago as it was situated on the borders of African American, Irish, Hispanic, and Italian areas. It is a residential area for students from UIC.
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.
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The cluster of streets in downtown Baltimore that make up Little Italy, where Ms Blatterman owns one of the neighbourhood's many Italian restaurants, has been an enclave for Italian immigrants ...
Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3] Chicago's community areas are well-defined, generally contain multiple neighborhoods, and depending on the neighborhood, less commonly used by residents. [2] [4]
Little Italy in Belmont, The Bronx [251] Little Italy in Erie, Pennsylvania has the largest Italian-American population in the city. [252] In Philadelphia, Italian immigrants initially settled in Bella Vista on the city's south side. [253] Little Italy, North Beach, San Francisco; Some communities in Oakland and Pittsburg, California