Rumor in our parish was that our Pastor, Father Alex Peloso (one of Chicaago's most profitable Bingo Operating Parishes) didn't push the city too hard in order to build the new facilities from scratch. The other story was that the Ward Bosses in our 26th Ward, who were Polish, didn't quite work as hard to save the Italian church. Who knows. But as you observe, the land in question really coul
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This site--What a Find! While I try to figure out how to upload old pix of that area, where I grew up, a couple of observations-- Patsy's Restaurant was operated by the Spilotro family (Mr. S senior was Patsy) and was a gferat little neighborhood eatery of the old Italian type The Norwegian Luthern Church in the photo(Erie and May) was bought by the Italian Catholic Parish of Santa Maria
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