Blue Island, IL was a great working mans town which had a large Italian American community now replaced by Mexicans and welfare mommas. 
Blue Island, IL was a great working mans town which had a large Italian American community now replaced by Mexicans and welfare mommas.
Blue Island was a Polish/Italian neighborhood. The two Catholic churches there tell the story. One Parish was Polish (St. Isidore), one Italian (St. Donatus). I have terrific memories of walking uptown to go shopping with my buscia. It was a nice, safe, well kept up neighborhood. Now you get ticketed for parking on the street without a permit. My buscia still lives there.
Mrs. BGH