The picture above is the First Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Greek Republican Club in Dayton Ohio.
- The greeks first took up a small section in Chicago, and gradually got bigger and nearly 15,000 greeks lived in the city.
- They mostly lived on the North Side, by Clark, Kinzie, and South Water Streets.
- Newer Greek immigraznts settled Near West Side, which ended up displacing the Italians.
- Near West Side is known as Greek Town, or the Delta.
- The Greeks took the Italians housing and their jobs. They mostly owned their own businesses and were very much into fruit-peddling trade.
- The Greeks are running the Italians out of the fruit business for the big wholesale fruit houses on South Water Street, they are nearly all owned by men from the isles of burning Sappho.
- In 1919, About 10,000 out of 18,000 Greeks from Chicao owned their own establishments.
