On two different voyages during 1921 and 1922, Salvatore (Sal) Leone and Anna Ragusa left their native Sicily and set sail for a new life in the United States of America. Upon their arrival and...

On two different voyages during 1921 and 1922, Salvatore (Sal) Leone and Anna Ragusa left their native Sicily and set sail for a new life in the United States of America. Upon their arrival and processing through immigration at Ellis Island New York, they departed via train to Chicago. They did not know each other as they were from different villages; Sal from Ventimiglia and Anna from Ragusa. Upon arrival via train in Chicago, both Sal and Anna, like thousands of immigrants during that period, prayed that the family that sponsored their immigration would be there to greet them. Immigrants during that time settled in neighborhoods defined by ethnic backgrounds and Sal and Anna were no different. Their daily lives were defined by the work they could get, preservation of their ethnic customs and rituals and religious observations. Sal and Anna settled with their sponsor families in the heart of what is now known as “Little Italy” in Chicago, the area bounded by Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the