Editing Italian Americans (section)

===Chicago===
The neighborhood around Chicago's Taylor Street has been called the [[Port#Port of call|port of call]] for Chicago's Italian American immigrants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.TaylorStreetArchives.com |title=Stories from Chicago's Little Italy |publisher=Taylor Street Archives |access-date=September 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228234400/http://taylorstreetarchives.com/ |archive-date=December 28, 2018 }}</ref> Taylor Street's Little Italy was home to [[Hull House]], an early [[settlement house]], founded by [[Jane Addams]] and [[Ellen Starr]] in 1889. Chicago's Italian American experience begins with the mass migration from the shores of southern Italy, the Hull House experiment, the Great Depression, World War II, and the machinations behind the physical demise of a neighborhood by the [[University of Illinois at Chicago|University of Illinois]] in 1963.

Italian Americans dominated the inner core of the Hull House neighborhood, 1890s–1930s.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Dominic|last1=Candeloro|url=http://libblogs.luc.edu/ccic/rundown-of-chicago-italian-neighborhoods-and-churches-there-was-never-just-one-little-italy-in-chicago/|title=Rundown of Chicago Italian Neighborhoods and churches: There was never just ONE Little Italy in Chicago|date=September 18, 2013 |access-date=March 17, 2023}}</ref>

As suburbs grew in the post-World War II era, Chicago's Italian American population spread from the central city, such as to [[Elmwood Park, Illinois|Elmwood Park]]. [[Harlem Avenue]], "La Corsa Italia", is lined with Italian stores, bakeries, clubs and organizations. The Feast of our Lady of Mount Carmel, in nearby [[Melrose Park, Illinois|Melrose Park]], has been a regular event in the area for more than one hundred years. The near-west suburbs of Melrose Park, [[Schiller Park, Illinois|Schiller Park]], [[Franklin Park, Illinois|Franklin Park]], [[River Grove, Illinois|River Grove]], [[Norridge, Illinois|Norridge]], [[Chicago Heights]], and [[Harwood Heights, Illinois|Harwood Heights]] are also home to many Italian Americans. West suburban [[Stone Park, Illinois|Stone Park]] is home of Casa Italia, an Italian American cultural center.

Northwest of Chicago, the city of Rockford has a large population of Italian Americans. Other historical Italian American communities in Illinois include Peoria, Ottawa, Herrin, Quad Cities and the Metro East suburbs of Saint Louis, Missouri.