Daley vs. Little Italy: Did the Mayor Drop UIC on the Neighborhood Out of Spite?

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🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Why did Richard J. Daley push for the UIC campus to rise from the heart of a long-standing ethnic neighborhood? In this special Curious City presentation, reporter Monica Eng examines the pervasive suspicion that the mayor’s choice rose from a political spat or — even worse — from disdain for the Italian-American community. Click here for the full story.

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0:47.9	Here to answer a question about one of Chicago's oldest ethnic neighborhoods.
0:51.8	It's called Little Italy.
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