{"id":335867,"date":"2026-09-02T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335867\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:16:15","slug":"gariti-crowned-queen-of-2026-columbus-parade-fra-noi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335867\/","title":{"rendered":"Gariti crowned queen of 2026 Columbus Parade \u2013 Fra Noi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><br \/>\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pf-button-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/printfriendly-pdf-button-nobg.png\" alt=\"Print Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\" style=\"width: 112px;height: 24px;\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><br \/>\n                Gabriella Gariti<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-Queen-edited.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-Queen-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  \/><\/a>The queen and her court<\/p>\n<p>Gabriella Gariti\u00a0was crowned queen of the 2026 Columbus Day Parade at a glittering pageant on July 29 at the Des Plaines Theatre. Sponsored by the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans, the event was chaired by Rose Mary Ranallo, president of the JCCIA Women\u2019s Division, and emceed by Ron Onesti, president of the JCCIA.<\/p>\n<p>Excitement\u00a0radiated from family members, friends, community leaders and other attendees, and the young women were perfect examples of confidence, courage and leadership. \u201cYou are all winners tonight,\u201d Onesti assured them. \u201cWe are grateful to each of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-Queen-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-Queen-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"423\"  \/><\/a>Gabriella Gariti<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of St. Francis High School and the University of Arizona, Gariti serves as a property manager at Gariti Properties while remaining actively involved in her community through organizations such as Feed My Starving Children, the Northern Illinois Food Bank and her local parish. Gariti is studying Italian and is deeply committed to preserving her family\u2019s language and traditions for future generations.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s queen runner-up is Enrica Uhlen, and the members of the queen\u2019s court are: Anna Andriano, Annabella Angarone, Robyn Brenizer, Anna Buescher, Isabella Burke, Teresa Campobasso, Victoria Cianci, Maya Miceli, Anna Muellner, Mia Pasco, Sienna Passo, Alexa Paterniti, Stephanie Pecoraro, Giada Roti and Gabriella Greco-Scott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriella Gariti The queen and her court Gabriella Gariti\u00a0was crowned queen of the 2026 Columbus Day Parade at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-335867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}