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Unread 04-08-2010, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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There was once an Italian neighborhood along West 63rd Street between Ashland and Damen. My guess is that has probably long evaporated.
I think that evaporated about 60 years ago.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 11:43 AM
 
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that's a funny thought -- Italians on 63rd and Ashland.
A friend said the Italians were situated:

"Between Ashland and Damen & 63rd and 71st - my cousin lived there - my Uncle was pure Italian and the whole neighborhood was all Italian."

Things were different back in those days. There was a very popular Italian Deli there too.

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Unread 04-08-2010, 02:10 PM
 
Location: The great, formidable City of Chicago, Illinois
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There was once an Italian neighborhood along West 63rd Street between Ashland and Damen. My guess is that has probably long evaporated.
Now it's a good place to get hit by stray bullets. Truly one of the worst places in Chicago.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 02:19 PM
 
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Now it's a good place to get hit by stray bullets. Truly one of the worst places in Chicago.

I believe you. Too many eating Jerk Soulfood.

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Unread 04-08-2010, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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There was once an Italian neighborhood along West 63rd Street between Ashland and Damen. My guess is that has probably long evaporated.
I grew up around Marquette and Halstead. . . we were the only Italian Family in the neighborhood. My Italian Grandma that lived in the flat above us went to her "Italian" Catholic Church a couple of miles away. . . to the southwest, if i remember correctly.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Chicago: Beverly, Woodlawn
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Cool. Any good (or bad) stories from the day? What was the neighborhood like?

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I grew up around Marquette and Halstead. . . we were the only Italian Family in the neighborhood. My Italian Grandma that lived in the flat above us went to her "Italian" Catholic Church a couple of miles away. . . to the southwest, if i remember correctly.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 04:53 PM
 
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I grew up around Marquette and Halstead. . . we were the only Italian Family in the neighborhood. My Italian Grandma that lived in the flat above us went to her "Italian" Catholic Church a couple of miles away. . . to the southwest, if i remember correctly.
cap1717
There was St Sabina's Catholic Church about a mile south near 79th and Halsted. Other than St Sabina, I don't recall any other Catholic churches around that area.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 06:39 PM
 
Location: The great, formidable City of Chicago, Illinois
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St. Sabina's is still going strong... with a primarily black Catholic congregation. The priest there, Father Pfleger, is a bit of a left-wing publicity seeker. I'd admire him if he weren't so much like Al Sharpton. To me he seems more interested in his own sense of importance than anything else.
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Unread 04-08-2010, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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it was a long time ago, neighborhood was "working class" white. . . felt like a small town. . . everybody watched out for everyone else and as a kid, you couldn't get away with anything. . . too many mothers watching! Most of the men were in unionized labor jobs, eveyone had enough but no had anything resembling the wealth that is considered normal today. My dad had the first TV on the block and every one came over to watch bowling, of all things! There was a Public Library in Ogden park and I took out 6 - 7 books a week and read every one of them. We were the only Catholic family and we went to St. Brendans, elementary school, and Church. Our block had a whole bunch of kids within 5 to 7 years of each other, and we formed a sort of pack.. . the bigger kids watching out for the younger ones (no formal babysitting), In the winter all of us older kids would get out every snow night and scoop snow from the entire block, paying special attention to the homes of the elderly folks that lived there. Sometimes we sprinkled salt as well. The boys played baseball and football in the street, the alley behind our house was a vitual "wildlife preserve", tons of songbirds. We had a red-headed woodpecker in a silver poplar tree in our back yard and I could see right into the nest from our attic window. Not a bad place to grow up. Such neighborhoods do not exist anymore. No place else will ever be "home' for me. . . .
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Unread 04-08-2010, 07:51 PM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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cap1717
There was St Sabina's Catholic Church about a mile south near 79th and Halsted. Other than St Sabina, I don't recall any other Catholic churches around that area.
That could have been it. . .sounds familiar. . . was too long ago for me to remember clearly, as our parish was St. Brendans.
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