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Steve Schmidt’s first visit to Italy was in 2002 as part of a delegation of Elk Grove Village leaders to Termini Imerese, a town on the north coast of Sicily east of the city of Palermo. Schmidt, who was then the village’s police chief, said he wasn’t crazy about having to go. “I’d never been out of the U.S. before,” says Schmidt, an “honorary Italian” of German descent. “But once I got there I fell in love with Italy and Sicily and they had to drag me back to the plane.” So it isn’t much of a surprise that after …