History

Succession of Consuls from 1887

Consuls
Camillo BERTOLA (26 May 1887 - 27 May 1888)
Paolo BAJNOTTI (27 May 1888 - 20 April 1890)
Vincenzo MANASSERO di Costigliole (20 April 1890 - 19 August 1894)
Antonio Ladislao ROZWADOWSKI * (13 October 1894-10 April 1906)
Guido SABETTA (14 October 1906 - 21 September 1911)
Luigi PROVANA del Sabbione (12 November 1911 - 6 October 1912)
Giulio BOLOGNESI (26 May 1912 - 26 October 1920)

* Consul General from 1904 to 1906

Consul generals
Leopoldo ZUNINI (18 May 1922 - 1 June 1928)
Giuseppe CASTRUCCIO (19 June 1928 - 2 September 1935)
Mario CAROSI (2 September 1935 - 30 November 1936)
Franco FONTANA (30 November 1936 - 18 August 1939)
Emilio MANFREDI (24 August 1939 - 19 February 1940)
Riccardo MOSCATI (20 February 1940 - 11 December 1941)

12.1941 - 6. 1945 : closure of the Consulate General due to war

Giovanni Battista CUNEO (6 July 1945 - 15 June 1951)
Piero GUADAGNINI (24 September 1952 - 12 December 1955)
Ludovico BARATTIERI di San Pietro (12 December 1955 - 5 August 1957)
Giacomo PROFILI (5 August 1957 - 21 September 1961)
Giovanni MAYR (15 February 1962 - 30 November 1964)
Acting Consul General by vice-consul Francesco Guariglia, 1963
Acting Consul General by vice-consul Mario Scialoja, 1964
Augusto RUSSO (2 January 1965 - 14 August 1968)
Giuseppe AVITABILE (18 September 1968- 19 September 1973)
Acting Consul General by chancellor Italo Bartoli, from 20.09.73 to 26.07.78
Alvaro Italo BELTRANI (26 July 1974 - 1°July 1977)
Acting Consul General by chancellor Angelo Scozia, from l 2.07.77 to '8.03.78
Teodoro FUXA (8 March 1978 - 23 February 1981)
Claudio FERRARI (27 April 1981 al 1° April 1986)
Leonardo BARONCELLI (10 July 1986 - 16 September 1990)
Acting Consul General by chancellor Maria Grazia Mordini, from 16.09.90 to 01.02.91
Stefano CACCIAGUERRA Ranghieri (1° February 1991 - 13 July 1995)
Pasquale D'AVINO (14 July 1995 - 26 August 1999)
Enrico GRANARA (27 August 1999 - 25 June 2003)
Eugenio SGRO' (from 26 June 2003 )

The 22 meters long lateen rigged vessel "Leudo Felice Manin" was built in 1891, in Liguria (Italy). Its original design dates back to the XIII Century. It served as a coastal trader for sixty years. It crossed the Atlantic in 1984, with a crew of ten, reaching Chicago in 1986. It toured the Lake Michigan main ports in 1987, including Milwaukee. After a long stay in a Chicago dockyard, it was sent back to Italy (March 10, 2000), on board of a container vessel, thanks to the efforts of a not-for-profit-organization based in La Spezia, in collaboration with the Consul General of Italy in Chicago and the Mediterranean Shipping Company. Being an invaluable historical artifact it will be fully restored by the Italian Navy.

Visit of the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi - Chicago May 1998

A picture of President Francesco Cossiga during his official visit in Chicago
on January 1992. With the President, Mayor Richard M. Daley

Visit in Chicago of President Sandro Pertini - 29/30 March 1982

Two images of "Frecce Tricolori" which took part, on September 1986,
in an air show in the city of Oshkosh (Wisconsin) and, on July 1992,
over Chicago's skies for the V Centennial Columbus' celebrations

Visit to Chicago by the Italian Navy Destroyer D562 "San Giorgio", 24-30
July 1976, on its training cruise in the North Atlantic and the Great
Lakes, on the occasion of the American Bicentennial and the Olympic Games of
Montreal

In the age of daring aviators, on May 15 1927, days before Charles
Lindbergh completed his transatlantic flight, an Italian pilot, Commander
Francesco de Pinedo, landed his hydroplane 'Santa Maria' on Lake Michigan.

Commander De Pinedo and his crew (Chicago, 15 May 1927).

Chicago receiving the 24 Italian Seaplanes, 13 July 1933

An Italian seaplane resting at the Navy Pier, Chicago, July 1933

Aerial view of Chicago, 13 July 1933

In the picture, one of the 24 Savoia-Marchetti twin-hull S.55X seaplanes
with two Isotta-Fraschini 18 cylinder water-cooled engines each,
mounted fore and aft above the monoplane wing, which took off
form Orbetello (Tuscany) on July 1, 1933, landing in Chicago (navy Pier) on July 6 1933,
at the orders of Italo Balbo.