by PolackTony » Wed May 21, 2025 2:55 pm
funkster wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 2:43 pm
PolackTony wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 2:41 pm
NickyEyes1 wrote: ↑Wed May 21, 2025 12:58 pm
Very interesting! That whole Glendale/Itasca/Wood Dale/Addison/Bloomingdale/Roselle area still has lots of off the boats
Absolutely; many many families with direct immigration ties to Italy (Sicily, Puglia, Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Molise) in those towns.
A guy I work with off the boat lives in Addison. Very big presence for sure.
In the 1950s-70s, the “second wave” arrivals from Sicily/Southern Italy were mainly settling in the City of Chicago and inner ring burbs like EP, MP, Cicero/Berwyn. But since then, those people (and their relatives and compaesani who continue to settle in Chicagoland today, though obviously the numbers have declined a lot since the 80s) mainly moved out to the Addison et al constellation, along with other burbs like Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Oak Brook. Today they are of course increasingly dispersed in the farther out suburbs (the Barringtons attract a lot of Italians now), but a good number remain in and around Addison (though not as super concentrated in those towns as they were in the 80s/90s anymore).
I had a thread a few years back where I tried to summarize and discuss the little substantive info we have about Italian OC networks in Chicagoland in relation to the significant “second wave” immigration dynamics in the area. People may be interested in this.
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Very interesting! That whole Glendale/Itasca/Wood Dale/Addison/Bloomingdale/Roselle area still has lots of off the boats
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Absolutely; many many families with direct immigration ties to Italy (Sicily, Puglia, Campania, Calabria, Basilicata, Molise) in those towns.
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A guy I work with off the boat lives in Addison. Very big presence for sure.
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In the 1950s-70s, the “second wave” arrivals from Sicily/Southern Italy were mainly settling in the City of Chicago and inner ring burbs like EP, MP, Cicero/Berwyn. But since then, those people (and their relatives and compaesani who continue to settle in Chicagoland today, though obviously the numbers have declined a lot since the 80s) mainly moved out to the Addison et al constellation, along with other burbs like Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Oak Brook. Today they are of course increasingly dispersed in the farther out suburbs (the Barringtons attract a lot of Italians now), but a good number remain in and around Addison (though not as super concentrated in those towns as they were in the 80s/90s anymore).
I had a thread a few years back where I tried to summarize and discuss the little substantive info we have about Italian OC networks in Chicagoland in relation to the significant “second wave” immigration dynamics in the area. People may be interested in this.
https://theblackhand.club/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7151