There are plenty of Italians and Italian-Americans whose names would be a far better fit for the east-west avenue. One is St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and for whom a major Chicago public housing complex, since demolished, was named. Another is Enrico Fermi. He won the Nobel Prize in physics before escaping Mussolini's Italy for America, where he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, built the first nuclear reactor and worked on the original atomic bomb project. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who became one of the nation's most respected and influential Catholic prelates while serving as archbishop of Chicago from 1982 till his death in 1996, would also be more than worthy. And there is always Ron Santo.