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Greektown is a social and dining district, located on the Near West Side of Chicago. Today, Greektown consists mostly of restaurants and businesses, although a cultural museum [1] and an annual parade and festival [2] still remain in the neighborhood. The district can be found along Halsted Street, between Van Buren and Madison Streets.
Name Image Location Summary Bricktown Historic District Separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown.: Bricktown separates the Renaissance Center from Greektown. [citation needed] Bricktown is home to St. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church, the oldest standing church in Detroit, and the Italian Renaissance style Wayne County Building (which was saved from demolition in the early 1980s).
Greektown is featured in the video game Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition (2005). In the American cable TV series Low Winter Sun (2013), the Detroit Police precinct is located four blocks from Greektown. Maya and Damon "kick up" tributes from her bar and from their drug and prostitution earnings to Skelos, Greektown's main crime lord.
The telltale landmarks are fewer now than they were when the Tribune offered readers concise directions to Greektown 70 years ago. “When you reach the point on Halsted St. near Harrison where ...
The National Hellenic Museum’s Oral History Project is an effort to document the Greek immigrant experience in America through the process of interviewing and recording the life stories of individuals of Greek descent. Approximately 450,000 Greeks came to America between 1890 and 1920 as part of the flood of Eastern Europe immigrants. Today ...
It's the fourth year that Greektown Pizza Restaurant held a food drive to help feed local families. Volunteers received more than $5,000 in donations. Greektown Pizza serves over 100 needy ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
In the 1860s, a shanty town referred to as Greektown was established at Tambaroora near Bathurst in New South Wales. [22] List of communities with a large concentration of Greek communities: Melbourne. Greek Precinct, Melbourne on Lonsdale Street; Oakleigh, Victoria in the City of Monash; Sydney. Little Greece in Marrickville, New South Wales ...