After 49 years in Evanston, D&D Finer Foods owner reflects on his journey

When his uncle brought his family to Chicago after a 15-day journey from Greece in 1955, Thomas Douvikas, then 12, said he remembers his father starting his first job in America — washing dishes. Back home in Nestani, Greece, his father had been a shepherd and a farmer, assisted by his mother.   “He’d come home...

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