On March 29, 2023, IAVM Curator Steve Corbo gave a tour of the museum to USMC Veteran Ray Stripling, board member of the Friends of Fisher House Illinois and Veteran Mel Twining, founder of the Michael Nathan Twining Foundation and Champions 4 Heroes. Fisher House is a network of housing facilities where military and Veteran families may stay at no […]
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Vietnam Veteran and Far South Side historian C.J. Martello spoke about the Italian American Veterans Museum at a meeting of the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America’s Leone D’Oro Lodge #2700 on March 20, 2023, at the American Legion Hall in Tinley Park. Martello is the author of Petals From Roseland, a column about the Far South Side […]
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The Friends of the 85th Division, made up mostly of alumni of the 85th Training Division, holds luncheon meetings semiannually near Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The event includes a guest speaker and of course a chance to reminisce with old friends. This year’s meeting was held in the Banquet Center at Casa Italia on Nov. 10. IAVM President and […]
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The Italian American Veterans Museum lost one of its most avid supporters with the passing of Paul Joseph Rubino, MD. Educated at St. Ignatius High School, Loyola University and Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine, Paul as a Naval surgeon tending to often-critically wounded military personnel during the Vietnam War. Upon discharge, he joined the Family Medical Group in Joliet, where […]
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The Lincoln Land Brass Band performed for an appreciative audience on Oct. 22 in the Ballroom of the Community Center at Casa Italia. Officially known as Illinois Army National Guard’s 144th Army Band, the 12-member ensemble served up a stirring mix of patriotic pieces and traditional marches. The concert was capped off by a medley of official music from every […]
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The Italian American Veterans Museum took a leap of faith when it decided to stage its first-ever wine festival, and the outcome was nothing short of spectacular. More than 200 wine lovers converged on the Festival Center at Casa Italia on Sept. 18 for Festival del Vino. The weather was picture perfect and the venue was magically decorated with banners, […]
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Americans of color have fought bravely for their country in every war from the American Revolution to the present, but that story has only recently been told in movies like “Glory” and books like “Strength for the Fight.” Today, those tales of valor are being celebrated across the Chicago area, thanks to History on Wheels. A groundbreaking mobile museum that […]
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At 3 p.m. on Memorial Day, musicians around the country lent their talents to Taps Across America’s National Moment of Remembrance. The organization called upon all Americans to pause then for a minute to remember those who died in military service to the United States. Those who could were asked to mark the moment by playing “Taps.” Undaunted by his […]
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Museum First Vice President Joseph Troiani delivered a riveting national security briefing at a recent museum fundraiser. A retired Navy Commander and Associate Professor of Psychology at Adler University in Chicago, Troiani detailed the risks to world peace posed by Russia and China, offering chilling accounts of their expansionist philosophies and tactics. Dubbed “A Night at the Museum,” the event […]
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World War II Navy Veteran Carl Liture may be 92 but there’s plenty of fight left in him. When he heard our donation box was a little worse for the wear, he sprang into action, crafting a Plexiglas replacement, decorating it in the colors of America and Italy, and bestowing it upon the museum. Many thanks to Carl as well […]
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