Italian Entrepreneurs bring 4 original machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci 
are flying to Chicago in the next few days, for their first Trans-Atlantic 
flight ever, resulting from the Milan/ Chicago Sister City Program

They are part of an Exhibit called: "Italian Ingenuity in Industrial Design", 
organized by ASSOLOMBARDA, the Milan-based Manufacturing Association,
from the Museum of Science and Technology of Milan, Italy.

This Exhibition will be inaugurated Wednesday June 12th 2002 at the John
David Mooney Foundation (114 W.Kinzie, Chicago). It will remain open to the
public for only 4 days. This is due to the Italian regulations on historical
artifacts, requiring their retrieval  in a very limited time span.

ASSOLOMBARDA is coming to Chicago, Milan's Sister City in the U.S.A., for a
Business-to-Business series of meetings, organized by the Italian Trade
Commission. Nearly 20 Italian companies are involved in the program.
This is the first high profile promotional event made by the Italian
entrepreneurs from Lombardy in Chicago, a city they consider to be their
natural gateway for expanding their business relationships with America.
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PRESS RELEASE from the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago