Milwaukee’s Italian families have a distinguished heritage, one that began in a great rush to the city shortly before the turn of the 19th century. Seeking a way out of the economic misery of their homeland, tens of thousands of Italians made their way to the Midwest, lured by the promise of Milwaukee’s well-paying factory and service industry jobs. The émigrés brought their colorful traditions and culture with them, making themselves at home in close-knit neighborhoods. Arrivals from various villages settled into specific blocks, with a widespread Sicilian contingent living in the old Third Ward, while Italians from the north settled in Bay View. Others moved into the Brady Street area.
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Martin Hintz is an award-winning journalist who has covered ethnic affairs in Milwaukee since the early 1970s. He is a past president of the Society of American Travel Writers and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists. In addition to Italian Milwaukee, Hintz has also written Irish Milwaukee for Arcadia’s Images of America series.
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The peak of early immigration to Milwaukee by Italians was from the late 1880s to the World War I era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Third Ward, World War, Betty Puccio, Italian Community Center, Joan Antida, Marquette University, Festa Italiana, Three Holy Women Parish, United States, Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Church, Frank Balistrieri, Rose Mastrogiovanni, Anna Tarantino, Brady Street, Milwaukee's East Side, New York, Italian American, Air Force, Mike Mille, Wisconsin State Fair, Bay View, Cass Street, Commission Row, Giorgio Argondizzo, Jennie Puccio New!
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The peak of early immigration to Milwaukee by Italians was from the late 1880s to the World War I era. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Third Ward, World War, Betty Puccio, Italian Community Center, Joan Antida, Marquette University, Festa Italiana, Three Holy Women Parish, United States, Blessed Virgin of Pompeii Church, Frank Balistrieri, Rose Mastrogiovanni, Anna Tarantino, Brady Street, Milwaukee's East Side, New York, Italian American, Air Force, Mike Mille, Wisconsin State Fair, Bay View, Cass Street, Commission Row, Giorgio Argondizzo, Jennie Puccio New!
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- The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Writing Baseball) by Professor Lawrence Baldassaro on page 111
- Ted Williams: Reflections on a Splendid Life (Sportstown Series) by Lawrence Baldassaro on page 111
- The Making of Milwaukee by John Gurda in Back Matter
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