The definitive Sassano to Chicago Genealogy Resource. Biancamano, Cavallone, Libretti, di Lisa, di Miele, di Novella, Marmo, Petrizzo, Ricciardone, Riccio and Stavola. These are just some of the families that left the small south Italian town of Sassano between 1893 and 1925. Driven by the staggering poverty in Southern Italy which resulted from Italian Unification, they left their beautiful homeland and settled in Chicago, Illinois in a three block area on south Federal Street between 47th and 50th Street to begin a life with new opportunities and challenges. Documented is a 16-year genealogy study tracing family roots back to this Italian town to the mid-17th century.