In 2025 Chicago shoes will be celebrating 60 years in the field of high-quality leather shoes, but the beginning goes way back. Soon after the war, Nikos, the sixth child of a poor Greek family from Piraeus, decided to emigrate all alone to America to seek his fortune. He went to Chicago because he loved water and sailing. In the mornings he searched for work and at night he slept at the big marina, on an abandoned sailboat named “Chicago”.
A bit later Nikos found a job in a small shoe factory and he met Nikolas, another young Greek immigrant who worked at the marina taking care of the “Chicago” boat whose owner was very rich, but old and sick.
