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Madison's Italian community in the early 20th century

Madison's Italian Colony Most Romantic Part of Capital City

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian immigrants streamed north up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago, Rockford, Madison and Milwaukee. This article reviews the founding and local culture in Madison's Italian community, a few blocks south of the Capitol and University campus.

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Cool, Robert N. "Madison's Italian Colony Most Romantic Part of Capital City." Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 2, 1932.