Greektown

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.