What is surprising about that is that the remaining Italians are street enough to support a street gang.

The area around Grand and Ogden is about 10 percent Italian at best, and the housing values are extremely valuable.

It's odd to me to think that most families sitting on a million dollar three flat they inherited from their grandparents would permit their kids to be gangbangers.

I know that changes as you get down Erie with the Hipsanic gangbangers, but I imagine that situation is rapidly eroding as well.

Sure as you go west toward Smith Park and the actual "Patch," the housing values are going to do go down, but I imagine buying property over there would still be very pricey, and I doubt there is a single Italian left who isn't a homeowner.

Anyway, I went to church over there once at the church near Lombardo's house and I was literally the only Caucaisian out of like 350 people.