Jesus you to? they call this morning telling me my package is coming between the hours of 3pm-6pm which is a ridiculous fucking time period, so I'm sitting at home all day long waiting for these c unts while i had a whole list of shit to do but couldn't leave and then finally 15 mins ago i get fed up with it and call and they track my order and tell me that there was a mix up and my package isn't coming until tomorrow :roll eyes: its shit like this that makes me wanna go out and do bad things to good people.

Ya thats funny, a coupla schmucks waiting for a package.

The 70s was when the downsizing happened & pure Italians really began assimilating in Chicago, but yeah you could include the 70s I guess. Things were looking grim by the late 70s though. They were losing their strongholds within city limits & losing them very fast.

'55-'65 was the glory decade though.

You mean when those guys died out?

Yeah, like I said, when Italians in Chicago began to assimilate, the Outfit began to crumble. The primary farming areas within the city limits were the Taylor Street & Patch neighborhoods. Even as early as the 70s, those areas were becoming less & less ethnically Italian.

The 70s was when the downsizing happened & pure Italians really began assimilating in Chicago, but yeah you could include the 70s I guess. Things were looking grim by the late 70s though. They were losing their strongholds within city limits & losing them very fast.

'55-'65 was the glory decade though.

For whatever reason, Italians in Chicago have just never been able to keep their neighborhoods in tact like they have out east.