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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
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 Second Baptist Church, located at 441 Monroe Street within Greektown in Detroit, Michigan, is the oldest African-American church in the Midwestern United States. [3] It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [ 2 ] listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.