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The article reports on the flight across the Atlantic Ocean undertaken by Italian airforce officer Italo Balbo in the year 1933. Balbo, as reported, led a crew of 24 Savio-Marchetti S 55X hydroplanes, to Chicago, Illinois and, was welcomed by around 125,000 Italian Americans living in the city, when he arrived on July 15, 1933. Balbo's complete crew, as reported, was officially greeted at Chicago's Soldier Field. Balbo, as reported, returned to Italy on August 12, 1933.

Reports on a study at the Chicago Housing Authority in Chicago, Illinois, regarding methods used for monitoring refrigerator energy usage. Result of the refrigerator replacement program at the public housing; Method used regarding the duration of monitoring energy usage; Devices used for monitoring energy consumption. INSETS: Other Methods of Shortening Refrigerator Monitoring Time;Calculating Annual Usage.

Focuses on the zero-energy housing project facilitated by the nonprofit organization Claretian Associates in South Chicago, Illinois as of April 2004. Number of new homes which Claretian plans to build; Support given by the Chicago's Department of Environment for the remaining cost of the photovoltaic panels in the project; Estimated prices for the homes; Comment of Mark Burger of Spire Solar on the project; Specification of the houses.