A long-running effort to turn a stretch of Harlem Avenue on the Far Northwest side into a showcase for Italian American businesses like Little Italy’s Taylor Street is inching forward.
A man walks through a business corridor with several Italian-themed restaurants and stores in the 3400 block of North Harlem Avenue, April 19, 2024, in Chicago. A long-running effort to turn a stretch of Harlem Avenue on the Far Northwest Side into a walkable showcase for Italian American businesses and culture like Little Italy’s Taylor Street is inching forward.
She presented a draft of the Harlem Avenue Visioning Study at Thursday’s commission meeting, outlining a plan to create community gathering spaces and new landscaping, increase pedestrian safety, maintain the neighborhood’s heritage and perhaps install archways on the thoroughfare, creating a brand like the South Side’s Chinatown or Paseo Boricua on Division Street in Humboldt Park.
“This will make the area much more attractive to new businesses,” said Portage Park Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Michael Giordano. Harlem is currently a daunting street to cross for many pedestrians, said Martinez, but designing safe, walkable areas will hopefully bring travelers and convention attendees from nearby O’Hare Airport and Rosemont.The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame will open at 3417 N. Harlem Ave. in the fall, said President Ron Onesti. It was recently located on Taylor Street in Little Italy, but displacement and gentrification forced many Italian American residents to leave.
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