Trying to free up space on my hard drive.

I have deleted over 100GB from my iPhoto Library, emptied iPhoto trash, secure emptied the Trash Can, and restarted the computer. Why did it only free up 1.5 GB on my disk? Everything has current updates.

Disk space mean nothing to iPhoto. It's the number of items that matters. So, whether a library is 10 gigs or 100 gigs is unimportant. There is a difference if there are 50,000 items and 500,000 items. The current version of iPhoto is good for 1,000,000 items.
Yes, the overhead in the Finder would be greater than 170 gigs, so I'm pretty sure that the effort to trash the data hasn't cleaned up very well.
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.

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