Greg Morelli is a co-owner of Max's Deli, a Jewish Deli in Highland Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. In October, 2017 he became infamous for calling the Mandalay Bay Resort Shooting October 2017 the deadliest mass shooting in American history "community outreach". ^[1]

Greg Morelli was born in New York City into a Jewish Italian family. He also has a brother named Joey. His family later moved to Highland Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago, Illinois where the two boys grew up.

Greg Morelli graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. He also studied at New York University graduating in 1991. Greg graduated from Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois) in 1986.

Greg Morelli and his brother Joey founded Joey's Brickhouse a pizza, breakfast, and brunch restaurant located in Chicago.

The two brothers funded the launch of their restaurant with a loan from their grandfather Bernie who ran Max's Deli, a Jewish Deli in Highland Park, Illinois. The restaurant opened on May 11th, 2004. The brothers later closed the restaurant and shutdown its website.

From October, 2007-September, 2014 Greg and Joey also ran a radio program called "Family Values with an Oy Vey!" where the brothers would discuss different themes.

At the end of every show their mom would call in and say what she liked and what she didn't like about the discussion.

In 2011, Greg Morelli and Joey took over Max's Deli which their grandfather Bernie founded during the 1980s.

Greg Morelli, told the Chicago Tribune that he voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential Election. However he said he was rooting for President Donald Trump to succeed in office. ^[1]

On October 2, 2017 Greg called the Mandalay Bay Resort Shooting October 2017"community outreach" on Twitter. His comments came one day after the shooting which was the deadliest mass shooting in American history killing 59 and injuring more than 500 people. ^[1]

Greg Morelli wrote:

Greg Morelli, one of the owners of Max's Deli, expressed regret Tuesday to the Chicago Tribune for the tweet, which he says he dashed off at about 7 a.m. Monday from his personal Twitter account. ^[1]

Greg later deleted the tweet and made a Facebook post apologizing for his comments. ^[1]

"As a white guy, I was relieved that it wasn't across race lines, or religion lines or (an attack) from outside the country," Morelli said.

"When I heard the news, I said, Please God, don't let it be" war.

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Greg Morelli said his tweet about the deaths was thoughtless.

"It was a dumb joke and it didn't work.

I own it.

It was stupid," Morelli said.

"It was seven in the morning and I was stressed out and freaked out by the shooting," he added.

"I was trying to participate, and all I did was put my foot in my mouth."

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Morelli expressed frustration that the death toll from mass shootings in the U.S. keeps rising and nothing meaningful seems to result from the horror.

"How many shootings are we going to let happen in this country without having a conversation about it?" he asked.

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The August, 2017 Unite the Right marches in Charlottesville, Virginia by white nationalist and alt right groups inspired Greg Morelli to make a statement against racism. He started drawing a cartoon of a man resembling Donald Trump wearing a Nazi armband, a T-shirt reading "I'm with Alt-Right," and giving a stiff-armed "Heil Hitler" salute.

On October Greg Morelli then posted the cartoon with the Max's Deli menu on the restaurant's Facebook page. The decision offended many other Jews.

He responded to the controversy by telling the Chicago Tribune: