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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 literal and ideological corner of Greektown. Founded as the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, in 1983, the National Hellenic has a rich history in Chicago. In 1992, the HMCC opened the doors of its first museum facility, located on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. This was two weeks after the Hellenic Cultural Museum in Salt Lake ...
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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.
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).
Roosevelt ushered the nation through World War II and developed the slate of New Deal programs that boosted economic growth and recovery from the Great Depression. #32. Harry S. Truman
Greektown. As of 1999 120,000 people in Metro Detroit indicated they are of Greek descent. [1] Stavros K. Frangos, author of Greeks in Michigan, stated "From the 1890s to the present all available sources agree that" about one third of Michigan's Greek Americans live in Metro Detroit.
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 ...