Landmark
Greektown
Restaurant-lined strip famed for flaming saganaki, Greek flags, and festival dancing.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
0:00≈ 2 min
About this audio guide
This guide to Greektown in Chicago traces the 1960s demolition that erased the old Delta neighborhood for the University of Illinois campus and expressway, and the Harrison-Halsted Community Group's fight to stop it. It follows the displaced restaurateurs who resettled on Halsted Street, including how the Parthenon's owners turned a wedge of seared kasseri cheese into a flaming tableside performance. Within a few years, restaurants up and down Halsted were staging their own versions of the dish.
This audio guide was created using AI.