More Lawndale News Memoirs

By Daniel Nardini

This is about the other stories from Mr. Nardini's career at Lawndale News that the author had not included in the previous book. These include people, places and events that took place over a 20 year period. This book reveals some of the issues the Latino communities have had to deal with over the years, and how some of these issues are still ongoing problems. Despite the problems, many talented, hardworking and innovative people have come up with solutions for dealings with the issues of the day. The book includes the personal experiences of the author during that time period. This book is not just a reminiscence of the author of his time at the newspaper, but a deeper look at the Latino communities that the newspaper serves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669852964

Daniel Nardini

Daniel Nardini was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and raised in Elmhurst, Illinois. He graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1983, with a bachelors degree in anthropology and history, and from Western Illinois University in Macomb, in 1986, with a masters degree in European and Asian history. Mr. Nardini taught English as a foreign language in Taiwan from 1990 to 1994, and in South Korea from 1996 to 1997. He worked as an editor for Lawndale News in Cicero, Illinois, from 1994 to 2014, and as a newspaper correspondent for The Fulton Journal in Fulton, Illinois, from 2018 to 2020. Mr. Nardini has written eight other books. They are: South Korea; Our Story; The Day China Cried; My Taiwan, Seoul, and Guadalajara (Mexico) Memoirs; My Italian American Family, Rural Taiwan, and Lawndale News Memoirs; My South Korea Photograph Memoir; My Taiwan Photograph Memoir; A Taoist in Rural Illinois; and More Lawndale News Memoirs. Mr. Nardini is retired, and lives with his wife Jade in Chadwick, Illinois.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

The Stories That Make the News

Hunger Strike for the Day Workers

Day of the Dead

Evolution of Technology

UNO

The Cinco de Mayo Parades and Celebrations

100 Year Old Mexican American Lady Becomes U.S. Citizen

The Thrill of the Art

The Titanic Exhibit

Taking Care of the Local Children

Ashmar Mandou

Mexchicana Bookstore

The Salvadoran Experience in Chicago

Venezuela

The Trump Years

Life After Lawndale News?

Dedication

I dedicate this book to Pilar, Ashmar, and Maria for all of the years that I have known them. I also dedicate this book to all of the wonderful people I had met over the years in the Chicago communities Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards and Humboldt Park, and in the towns of Cicero and Berwyn.

The Stories That Make the News

I worked at Lawndale News for 20 years. This is longer than anything else I had ever done in my life. Longer than all of my years in college, longer than my years in Taiwan and South Korea, and longer than I worked for The Fulton Journal (a job similar to what I did for Lawndale News, although that job came after I resigned from being editor of Lawndale News) all combined. All told, I had been a newspaper correspondent for 22 years of my life, and it was in so many ways a rewarding occupation. People showed me a lot of respect for what I did, I felt like I was helping not only individuals but the various Latino communities that the newspaper served, and more than that I felt like I was recording history. No, for the most part I did not write articles on earth-shattering events (although September 11, 2001, which I did write articles about when it took place, was certainly an exception). My work was dedicated to ordinary people in the Latino communities who were not well-known, but who tried to make a difference in the community they lived in.

There are so many examples I could give. I had covered so many stories in that 20 year period that I cannot even begin to recall them all. Within these pages I am recalling some of the stories that were memorable to