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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The building is known in popular culture because the outside was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening and closing credits, and establishing shots of the iconic television series, Hill Street Blues. [2] [4] It is also used as the exterior of the precinct house in the television series Chicago P.D., and the television series ...
The Old Shillelagh iconic Irish pub in Greektown is adding a walk-up window that will open at 8 a.m. and feature breakfast bowls and smoothies.
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 ...
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 ...