Find Apartments for Rent in Little Italy Chicago

Many renters new to Chicago may wonder "Where is Little Italy in Chicago?" Little Italy apartments can be found in the near west side of Chicago. The neighborhood of Little Italy Chicago is about 2 miles southwest of the Loop, or Chicago's central downtown district, and is adjacent to the University Village neighborhood. Nearby attractions to Little Italy Chicago apartments include the Jane Addams Hull House, the University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC) campus, the Italian-American Sports Hall of Fame and many Italian restaurants in Little Italy can be found along Taylor Street. Concerts, lectures and sporting events are mainstays of the Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum, also known as the UIC Forum, located near Little Italy at the corner of S Halsted St and W Roosevelt Rd.

Little Italy used to encompass more territory of Chicago's near west side, however the construction of both the UIC campus and the Dan Ryan Expressway in the 1960s meant that much of the eastern reaches of Little Italy Chicago were engulfed by these concrete mega-projects. Formerly residential streets dominated by three-flats, six-flats and small apartment buildings gave way to open air plazas and the distinctive mid-century campus buildings constructed for the university. Though the neighborhood of Little Italy Chicago has contracted considerably in size since its heyday in the first half of the twentieth century, the cultural legacy and import of Little Italy lives on.

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Another popular question among new renters and long-time residents of Chicago might be, "What is there to do in Little Italy Chicago?" Family-owned businesses and Italian restaurants still operate in Little Italy, primarily along W Taylor St. Many of these Little Italy establishments can trace their roots back several generations to Italian immigrants who settled in Chicago during the late 1800s, before the Great Fire of 1871 in some instances, and throughout the early 1900s. This area was favored by Italian immigrants as well as immigrants from other countries, however few ethnic enclaves hung on as long as Little Italy did.