Humbert S. Nelli

Humbert S. Nelli (1930-2021) was an Italian-American historian and author born in Chicago, specializing in Italian immigration, urbanization, organized crime, and sports history. His most notable works include Italians in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility (1970), The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States (1976), and From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans (1983), which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction in 1984 [Legacy obituary, Anisfield-Wolf, Wikipedia].