Thursday, April 26, 2012 "To Go Home and Fight - Chicago Greeks
Ready to Raise a Large Regiment" article - Chicago Daily
Tribune, February 15, 1897 Take special notice of the section
below "Greek Colonies in Chicago" which outlines the particular
streets where Greeks are living in 1897. Published by Chicago
Daily Tribune, February 15, 1897 TO GO HOME AND FIGHT CHICAGO
GREEKS READY TO RAISE A LARGE REGIMENT Spartan Blood Boils in
the Local Colonies for a Conflict with the Turks -
Representative Men of the Nationality Talk of the Cretan News
with Enthusiasm - Hellenic and Ottoman Consuls Decline to be
Interviewed on the Bellicose Cablegrams. The Greek colony in
Chicago was greatly excited last evening over the news of the
nominal declaration of war against Turkey by their mother
country. These people are for the most part humble citizens, but
the Spartan blood is still running in their veins, and they all
say that if there is a war they will hurry back to Greece to
take up arms for the land they have left but h