Mobility and Migration

As Italians left Big Italy during the 1930s for better housing and neighborhoods, Italians would continue this trend of outward migration for the rest of the twentieth century.  By the 1990s, western neighborhoods of St. Rocco's and Mt. Carmel were semi-viable, and Little Italy on the eastside was becoming increasingly home to professionals and university students.

"As was the case with other immigrant groups, the suburbs were more attractive to both the descendants of immigrants and new immigrants, and the future of Cleveland's Italians was more firmly linked to regions outside of the city's boundaries" (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History).