Restaurant founder Luigi Stefani

Luigi Stefani was patriarch of a family that founded a group ofChicago family restaurants, instilling values of honesty and hardwork.

"One thing he told me that I value most that is a key until thisday, is that you live by your word. `That is the bond we have ashuman beings,' he said," said his son, restaurateur Phil Stefani.

Mr. Stefani died Dec. 8 at age 79.

Mr. Stefani was born in Calumet, Mich., in May 1920 of Italianparents, who took him back to Italy before he was a year old. He wasdrafted into the Italian Army and fought during World War II.

In 1946, after the war, he went to the U.S. Embassy in Florence,Italy, and got a passport allowing him to …