Oral Histories & Stories

Individual stories of Greek immigrants — in their own words, or told by those who knew them.

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Labor & Trades

Halsted Street: The Rise and Resilience of Chicago's Greektown

For more than a century, a stretch of South Halsted Street on Chicago's Near West Side has been the beating heart of Greek America…

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Postwar Migration

Little Athens on the East River: How Greeks Made Astoria Their Own

Astoria, Queens became the largest Greek community outside of Greece itself by the 1970s, a city within the city where the languag…

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Labor & Trades

Monroe Street: Detroit's Greektown and the Neighborhood That Outlasted the City Around It

Detroit's Greektown was built by immigrants who came for the auto industry and stayed to build churches, restaurants, and a commun…

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Labor & Trades

The Invisible Greektown: Baltimore's Lost Greek Neighborhood and Its Lasting Legacy

Baltimore's Greek community never achieved the fame of Chicago's or Astoria's, but for three decades in the early twentieth centur…

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