Individual stories of Greek immigrants — in their own words, or told by those who knew them.
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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…
Astoria, Queens became the largest Greek community outside of Greece itself by the 1970s, a city within the city where the languag…
Detroit's Greektown was built by immigrants who came for the auto industry and stayed to build churches, restaurants, and a commun…
Baltimore's Greek community never achieved the fame of Chicago's or Astoria's, but for three decades in the early twentieth centur…