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[B.]

Loiacano and Lojacano are both variations that show up. With some Italian names "i" and "j" are interchanged, i.e. Maiuri/Majuri, Aiello/Ajello, San Giuseppe Iato/Jato, etc. Can be helpful when doing research as families and towns sometimes used both spellings.

[PolackTony]

Loiacano and Lojacano are both variations that show up. With some Italian names "i" and "j" are interchanged, i.e. Maiuri/Majuri, Aiello/Ajello, San Giuseppe Iato/Jato, etc. Can be helpful when doing research as families and towns sometimes used both spellings.

Yup and both are actually two words: Lo Iacono/Lo Jacono (the latter, as in other cases where “j” is used to represent “i”, is a dialect version as the letter “j” is not used in Italian; both pronounced the same way with stress on first syllable). Iacono/jacono is a dialect variant of “diacono”, the Italian word for “deacon”.

[Tocco686]

I thought I read awhile back on one of these posts about Chicago that the Lo Bue’s own some restaurants in the Chicago area.

[Ivan]

I thought I read awhile back on one of these posts about Chicago that the Lo Bue’s own some restaurants in the Chicago area.

I found this and posted it a while back, you can see Massimo himself at the beginning briefly plugging one of his joints on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqa-Y3b4GUs

The restaurants are 750 Cucina Rustica-Cary and ZaZa's Tavola Italiana.

The brothers are also on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/matt.lobue.5

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013819418661

[InCamelot]

I thought I read awhile back on one of these posts about Chicago that the Lo Bue’s own some restaurants in the Chicago area.

I found this and posted it a while back, you can see Massimo himself at the beginning briefly plugging one of his joints on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqa-Y3b4GUs

The restaurants are 750 Cucina Rustica-Cary and ZaZa's Tavola Italiana.

The brothers are also on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/matt.lobue.5

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013819418661

There's a photo with the LoBue brothers and Gigi Rovito but I wonder if anyone else can identify the others in the pictures.