I did live in Bloomingdale Il for some years and ALL my neighbors were Italian.
Good people.
I’m still not sold on the burying the fig trees for the winter thing?
Lot of work.
Man were these folks off the boat?? :)
Only the oldest still do that and A FEW 2nd generation (which is me).
I have a few friends that do it but they still speak Italian as well as they speak English (they speak English with no accent as they are second generation also) and visit Italy regularly.
They are the die hards :)
I fall somewhere in between.
My nephews and nieces? Forget about it.
They might as well be WASPs instead of WOPs lol