Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha, Wisconsin Official seal of Kenosha, Wisconsin Location of Kenosha inside Wisconsin Location of Kenosha inside Wisconsin Kenosha, Wisconsin is positioned in the US Kenosha, Wisconsin - Kenosha, Wisconsin County Kenosha Incorporated Kenosha, 1850 Kenosha /k no / is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. Kenosha is on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan.
Early archaeological sites have been identified in the Kenosha vicinity; the discoverer of two sites believes they antedate the Clovis culture, making them contemporaneous with the ice age. Paleo Indians settled in the region at least 13,500 years ago. In 1850, another change brought the burgeoning city (and later Kenosha County) its current title, an Anglicized version of the early name Kinoje. Between 1902 and 1988, Kenosha produced millions of automobiles and trucks under marques such as Jeffery, Rambler, Nash, Hudson, La - Fayette, and American Motors Corporation (AMC).
In partnership with French automaker Renault, AMC produced several models in Kenosha in the early 1980s, including the Alliance, which won the 1983 "Car of The Year" award from Motor Trend.
In 1987, Renault sold its controlling interest in AMC to Chrysler Corporation, which had already contracted with AMC for the manufacturing of its M-body midsized cars at the Kenosha plant.
The AMC Lakefront plant (1960 88), a lesser facility, was completed in 1990 (a chimney-demolition ceremony that June drew 10,000 spectators) and was redeveloped into upscale Harbor - Park. The region now hosts lakeside condominiums, a large recreational marina, various parks and promenades, sculptures, fountains, the Kenosha Public Museum, and the Civil War Museum, all of which are connected by the Kenosha Electric Railway streetcar system.
Kenosha has 21 locations and three districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places including the Library Park, Third Avenue, and the Civic Center historic districts.
The town/city has a Kenosha Landmarks Commission, and among the many small-town city-designated landmarks are the 1929 YMCA at 711 59th Place, the Manor House at 6536 Third Avenue, the John Mc - Caffary House at 5732 13th Court, the St.
In June 1993, the town/city installed reproductions of the historic Sheridan Le - Grande street lights that were specially designed for Kenosha by Westinghouse Electric in 1928; these can be seen on Sixth Avenue between 54th Street and 59th Place.
A classic two-mile (3.2 km) downtown electric streetcar fitness was opened on June 17, 2000, and on September 22nd, 2014, the Kenosha town/city council allowed a crosstown extension of the fitness incorporating the existing route between 48th and 61st Streets on both Sixth and Eighth Avenues. Kenosha is in southeastern Wisconsin at 42 34 56 N 87 50 44 W (42.582220, -87.845624). It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the east, the Town of Somers to the north, the village of Bristol to the west, and the village of Pleasant Prairie to the south.
Kenosha's traveler train station is the last stop on Chicago's Union Pacific North Metra Line and is nearly halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago.
The 2010 census announced that the city's populace are mainly newcomers, with 51 percent of Kenosha inhabitants having moved from other metros/cities and states.
Kenosha has an voted for mayor, who is the chief executive, and an assigned town/city administrator, who is the chief operating officer.
The city's Common Council comprises of 17 aldermen from Kenosha's 17 districts (each precinct having a several wards), voted for for two-year terms in even-numbered years.
The mayor of Kenosha is John Martin Antaramian, the longest-serving chief executive in the city's history over four terms between 1992 and 2008.
Kenosha is represented by Paul Ryan (R) in the United States House of Representatives, and by Ron Johnson (R) and Tammy Baldwin (D) in the United States Senate.
Robert Wirch (D) represents Kenosha in the Wisconsin State Senate, and Peter Barca (D) and Tod Ohnstad (D) represent Kenosha in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Uptown Kenosha 6th Ave Downtown Kenosha Kenosha, decades ago a bustling core of manufacturing, is today a bedroom improve because of the ease of access to the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor.
According to county statistics, 49% of Kenosha's workforce commutes outside of Kenosha County to their positions.
Many travel northward towards Milwaukee or south into the Chicago area. The 2016 Kenosha County Out-Commuter Analysis, underwritten by the Kenosha Area Business Alliance (www.kaba.org) and an adjunct to the coincidental Labor Analysis of Kenosha County, found that Kenosha's "out-commuters most likely work for positions in healthcare, manufacturing, professional/scientific and technical services.
Kenosha's poverty rate is lower than the state average, while its median homehold income exceeds the state average.
A June 2009 study by the Milken Institute announced that Kenosha placed in the nationwide top-50 high-tech economies. The city's biggest employer is the educational system, including Kenosha Unified School District, UW-Parkside, Gateway Technical College and Carthage College. Kenosha's biggest private employer is Abbott Laboratories, which recently[when?] purchased 400 acres (1.6 km2) territory in Kenosha County. Others are working at three hospitals and their satellite campuses. Snap-on Tools world command posts and Jockey International corporate command posts are in Kenosha.
Kenosha has a number of light industrialized and distribution companies in outlying company parks.
Tourists spent an estimated $196.6 million in Kenosha County in 2015, with the county ranking fourth in the state in tourist cash generated. The Kenosha Public Museum System contains the chief Kenosha Public Museum, the Dinosaur Discovery Museum in association with Carthage College and the Smithsonian, and the Kenosha Civil War Museum.
On Simmons Island, the Kenosha History Center and contiguous Maritime Museum offer memorabilia from the city's nautical past.
The Kenosha Harbor - Market is a European-style Farmer's Market held mid-May through mid-October on Second Avenue bisected by the 56th Street boulevard streetcar line.
The number of homeholds in Kenosha County increased by almost 80% from 1990 to 2005. A typical home in Uptown Kenosha A Kenosha neighborhood A 2015 Wallet - Hub survey listed Kenosha among the top 100 American metros/cities for first-time home buyers. Kenosha Electric Railway PCC streetcar 4608 'Pittsburgh'.
See also: Streetcars in Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha has been served by rail service to and from Chicago since May 19, 1855, when the predecessors to the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Milwaukee and Chicago Railway Company (originally the Illinois Parallel Railroad) and the initial "Lake Shore Railroad" (later the Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chicago Railway) were officially joined with great ceremony just south of today's 52nd Street.
Kenosha has the only Metra station in Wisconsin, with nine inbound and nine outbound trains each weekday.
Passenger ridership on the Kenosha line was up by a slight 0.06% in 2009, while elsewhere on the 11-route Metra system, traveler counts dropped by 5.2 percent.
Not all Union Pacific/North Line trains terminate and originate in Kenosha; most terminate at Waukegan, Illinois, to the south of Kenosha. Kenosha is one of the smallest metros/cities in America with any type of streetcar fitness today. In addition to its streetcar line, Kenosha has a town/city bus network with eight routes.
Kenosha was the first town/city to color-code transit routes (with the Blue, Green, Red, and Orange Lines), and also the first town/city to use electric street car buses in full transit service, both occurring on February 14, 1932. Kenosha Regional Airport (KENW) serves the town/city and encircling communities.
Kenosha Metra Station pedestrian tunnel The Kenosha Unified School District operates 23 enhance elementary schools, five middle schools, seven charter schools, and six high schools: Mary D.
Bradford High School, George Nelson Tremper High School, Indian Trail High School and Academy, Lake - View Technology Academy, Reuther Central High School, and Harborside Academy, the latter a research school that uses the Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound model; it was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Kenosha's private schools include St.
Joseph Catholic Academy, All Saints Catholic School, Bethany Lutheran School, Friedens Lutheran School, Christ Lutheran Academy, Kenosha Montessori School, Shoreland Lutheran High School, and Christian Life School.
Kenosha is home to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with over 4,000 pupils, Carthage College with over 2,500 pupils, and the Kenosha ground of Gateway Technical College.
Concordia University Wisconsin, Cardinal Stritch University, National-Louis University, and Herzing University maintain campuses in Kenosha.
The Kenosha Public Library, which is part of the Kenosha County Library System, operates in four locations throughout the city: Northside Neighborhood Library, Southwest Neighborhood Library, Uptown Neighborhood Library, and Simmons Neighborhood Library.
Kenosha has two hospitals: the Kenosha Medical Center Campus downtown and the Aurora Medical Center at the extreme edge of the town/city limits.
Kenosha Hospital & Medical Center Kenosha Hospital's Palmer Recovery Unit Downtown Kenosha.
The major journal of Kenosha County is the Kenosha News, a broadsheet with circulation of around 23,000 copies.
Kenosha News Building Kenosha is considered as part of the Milwaukee tv market by A.C.
Nielsen, but due to a commuter population, Kenosha is also served by Chicago's tv stations, which are carried by Time Warner Cable in addition to Milwaukee stations.
Arbitron classifies Kenosha as part of the Chicago radio market.
Five primary airways broadcasts broadcast from Kenosha: WLIP (CBS) 1050 AM, Gateway Technical College's WGTD (91.1 FM), a member station of the Wisconsin Public Radio News & Classical Music Network, modern WIIL (95.1 FM) and classic hits WWDV (96.9 FM), which simulcasts Chicago-based WDRV (97.1 FM).
The Kenosha Convention and Visitors Bureau operates WPUR937 (1180 AM), a low-power tourist knowledge station.
WPXE (Channel 55), owned by ION Television, is Kenosha's only locally licensed tv station.
Civic organizations in Kenosha include: Italian American Society of Kenosha Kenosha Car Club Kenosha Freemasons, Lodge 47 Kenosha Women's Club Kenosha's three downtown exhibitions, the Kenosha Public Museum, the Civil War Museum and the Dinosaur Discovery Museum, are Smithsonian Institution affiliates. Completed in 2001, the Kenosha Public Museum is on the Lake Michigan shoreline.
The Kenosha History Center is in the 1917 town/city water treatment plant on Simmons Island adjoining the 1866 Kenosha Light Station.
It showcases the history of Kenosha from the time of Native American settlements and the first European settlements to the present day.
Kenosha's 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m2) Civil War Museum opened on June 13, 2008.
The Kenosha Transit Carhouse at 724 54th Street, which homes Kenosha's historic fleet of PCC streetcars, is occasionally open for guided tours.
The Kenosha Public Museum.
Kenosha Civil War Museum Summer band performances are traditionally put on by the Kenosha American Legion Band (renamed the Kenosha Concert Band in 1963 and now called the Kenosha Pops Concert Band).
Since 1988 the concerts have been at Kenosha's Sesquicentennial Bandshell in Pennoyer Park.
The Kenosha Lakeshore Youth Philharmonic offers an intensive orchestral experience to middle school and high school musicians.
Kenosha Unified School District offers a touring summer marching band program for pupils at all school-band-age levels.
The Band of the Black Watch brings together musicians from all of Kenosha's high schools.
The Music of the Stars radio program, heard around the world over WLIP, has originated from Kenosha since 1992. The Kenosha Symphony Orchestra presents concerts in the acoustically-correct Reuther Central Auditorium (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) at Walter Reuther Central High School in downtown Kenosha.
Bands that have originated in Kenosha include the Pat Crawford Big Band, the Jazz Wave, the Parkside Reunion Big Band, Reminiscing (defunct), Electric Hellfire Club, Lazarus A.D., Jungle Rot, Product of Hate, and PATH.
Kenosha has dozens of churches, two Jewish churchs, and is home to the American Albanian Islamic Center of Wisconsin. Of the Christian churches, 14 are Lutheran, 13 are Roman Catholic, and 12 are Baptist; other Christian denominations with churches include Anglican, Episcopal, Seventh-day Adventists, Churches of Christ, Methodism, African Methodist Episcopal, Apostolic, Eastern Orthodox, Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, and Presbyterianism.
Kenosha has eight miles (13 km) of Lake Michigan shoreline frontage, almost all of which is public.
Kenosha's Washington Park contains the earliest operating velodrome in the United States (opened in 1927) at Washington Bowl. The Kenosha Velodrome Association sponsors American Track Cycling sanctioned competitions and training sessions at the "Bowl" throughout the summer.
Kenosha has been a Tree City USA since 1982. Wolfenbuttel Park, so titled for Kenosha's sister town/city in Germany.
Simmons Island Beach, with the Kenosha Pierhead Lighthouse in the distance.
Harbor - Park overlooking Kenosha Harbor Kenosha was home to the Food Folks and Spokes criterium racing event, a part of the International Cycling Classic known as "Super - Week" in which cyclists from all over the world compete in various types of cycling affairs.
Kenosha is home to the Washington Park Velodrome, the longest-operating 333-meter track; it opened in 1927.
It is believed that in 1924 Kenosha was the home of the short lived Kenosha Maroons, an early National Football League team that dissolved after going 0-4-1.
The town/city was the home of the Kenosha Cardinals, a semi-professional football team between 1937 and 1941 which played at Lake Front Stadium at 58th Street and Third Avenue.
The Kenosha Cougars are a semi-professional football team that plays home games at Ameche Field. The Kenosha Kingfish, a baseball team in the Northwoods League, played its first game at historic Simmons Field on May 31, 2014 with a sold-out crowd of 3,218 fans, and in 2015 won their first championship. The Kenosha Yacht Club was established in 1912.
Main article: List of citizens from Kenosha, Wisconsin In 2005 Money listed Kenosha as 94th on its list of "Best Places to Live". In 2005, the Milken Institute rated Kenosha 86th among the biggest 200 metro areas in the United States in its "Best Performing Cities" list; Magazine ranked Kenosha #45 on its "Hottest Midsize Cities" list; Worldwide ERC in 2006 encompassed Kenosha among its "Best Cities for Relocating Families" list in the 500,000 to 250,000 metro populace category. Kenosha's four sister metros/cities are: a b City of Kenosha (2010), 'Mayor/Administration', accessed October 22nd from https://kenosha.org/mayor/index.html Kenosha.
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