Italian Village’s newest restaurant Sotto and sibling establishment Bar Sotto are the brainchild of the great-grandchildren of the restaurant’s founder.

Walk up the stairs of The Village off Monroe, you can feel its history. Its sign has become synonymous with old Italy and the Capitanini family. Alfredo Capitanini opened Italian Village back in ...

Capitanini’s great-grandfather, Alfredo Capitanini, opened Italian Village’s first restaurant, The Village, in 1927. He had immigrated from a town in Tuscany a few years before, ...

Ray Capitanini, wine maestro of Italian Village in the Loop, has died at 89 The table-hopping maitre d’ at Chicago’s oldest Italian restaurant schmoozed with patrons including Frank Sinatra ...

In 1927, their great-grandfather, who’d arrived from Italy three years earlier, opened what is now the Village, the upstairs restaurant in this building at 71 West Monroe Street.

As Italian Village Restaurants nears their 97th year in business, the new generation is putting as much love and hard work as ever into their business. The siblings, Jonathan and Giovanna Capitanini, ...