This article is about the town/city inside Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin City of Milwaukee Clockwise from top left: Milwaukee horizon and Lake Michigan, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Central Library, Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, Marquette Hall at Marquette University, Milwaukee City Hall, Miller Park, and the Basilica of St.
Clockwise from top left: Milwaukee horizon and Lake Michigan, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Central Library, Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, Marquette Hall at Marquette University, Milwaukee City Hall, Miller Park, and the Basilica of St.
Flag of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Flag Official seal of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Official logo of Milwaukee, Wisconsin Nickname(s): Cream City, Brew City, Beer City, Brew Town, Beertown, Miltown, The Mil, MKE, The City of Festivals, Deutsch-Athen (German Athens) Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County and in the state of Wisconsin Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County and in the state of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin is positioned in the US Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Counties Milwaukee, Washington, Waukesha Milwaukee (/m l w ki/, small-town / mw ki/) is the biggest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest town/city in the Midwestern United States.
The governmental center of county of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigan's shore.
Milwaukee's estimated populace in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the chief cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee Racine Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated populace of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st biggest city in the United States. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846 Juneau's town combined with two neighboring suburbs to incorporate as the town/city of Milwaukee.
Known for its brewing traditions, Milwaukee is presently experiencing its biggest assembly boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the town/city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as primary renovations to the UW Milwaukee Panther Arena, while the under-construction Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center is scheduled to open in 2018.
1.2 American Indian Milwaukee 7.2 Milwaukee County enhance markets The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee region are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe (all Algic/Algonquian citizens s) and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) (a Siouan citizens ) Native American tribes.
Many of these citizens had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee region around the time of European contact.
In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a part in all the primary wars on the American continent.
During the French and Indian War, a group of "Ojibwas and Pottawattamies from the far [Lake] Michigan" (i.e., the region from Milwaukee to Green Bay) joined the French-Canadian Daniel Lienard de Beaujeu at the Battle of the Monongahela. In the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the several Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. During the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15, 1812, the only known armed conflict in the Chicago area.
The War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833.
Statue of Solomon Juneau, who helped establish the town/city of Milwaukee Europeans had appeared in the Milwaukee region before to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago.
Alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac (now in Michigan) settled a trading post; therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and encircling lands various names: Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, and Milwaucki.
Ne day amid the thirties of the last century [1800s] a journal calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, and Milwaukee it has remained until this day. The first large wave of settlement to the areas that would later turn into Milwaukee County and the City of Milwaukee began in 1835.
So, on January 31, 1846, they combined to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee and voted for Solomon Juneau as Milwaukee's first mayor. Milwaukee began to expanded as a town/city as high numbers of immigrants, mainly German, made their way to Wisconsin amid the 1840s and 1850s.
By 1900 34 percent of Milwaukee's populace was of German background. The biggest number of German immigrants to Milwaukee came from Prussia, followed by Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and Hesse-Darmstadt.
Milwaukee attained its reputation for the most German of American metros/cities not just from the large number of German immigrants it received, but the sense of improve which the immigrants established there. One of the most famous "liberal revolutionaries" of 1848 was Carl Schurz, who explained why he came to Milwaukee in 1854, "It is true, similar things [cultural affairs and societies] were done in other metros/cities where the Forty-eighters had congregated.
But so far as I know, nowhere did their influence so quickly impress itself upon the whole civil atmosphere as in 'German Athens of America' as Milwaukee was called at the time." Schurz was referring to the various clubs and societies Germans advanced in Milwaukee.
Specifically in Milwaukee, the American Turners established its own Normal College for teachers of physical education and a German-English Academy. Milwaukee's German element is still firmly present today.
Milwaukee boasts a number of German restaurants, as well as a traditional German beer hall.
Even the German language is not lost, as a German language immersion school is offered for kids in grades K-5. Germans were, and still are, an meaningful component of life in Wisconsin and Milwaukee.
Although the German existence in Milwaukee after the Civil War remained strong, other groups made their way to the city.
Because Milwaukee offered the Polish immigrants an abundance of low-paying entry level jobs, it became one of the biggest Polish settlements in the USA.
Wisconsin Street, Milwaukee, 1900 By 1850, there were seventy-five Poles in Milwaukee County and the US Enumeration shows they had a range of occupations: grocers, blacksmiths, tavernkeepers, coopers, butchers, broommakers, shoemakers, draymen, laborers, and farmers.
Three diverse Polish communities evolved in Milwaukee, with the majority settling in the region south of Greenfield Avenue.
Milwaukee County's Polish populace of 30,000 in 1890 rose to 100,000 by 1915.
A view of Milwaukee's South Side horizon is replete with the steeples of the many churches these immigrants assembled that are still vital centers of the community.
Milwaukee has the fifth-largest Polish populace in the U.S.
In addition to the Germans and Poles, Milwaukee received a large influx of other European immigrants from Lithuania, Italy, Ireland, France, Russia, Bohemia and Sweden, which encompassed Jews, Lutherans, and Catholics.
Italian Americans number in the town/city at 16,992 but, in Milwaukee County they number at 38,286. The biggest Italian American festival, Festa Italiana is held in the city. By 1910, Milwaukee shared the diverse ion with New York City of having the biggest percentage of foreign-born inhabitants in the United States. In 1910, caucasians represented 99.7% of the city's total populace of 373 857. Milwaukee has a strong Greek Orthodox Community, many of whom attend the Greek Orthodox Church on Milwaukee's northwest side, designed by Wisconsin-born architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Milwaukee has a sizeable Croatian populace with Croatian churches and their own historic and prosperous soccer club The Croatian Eagles at the 30-acre Croatian Park in Franklin, Wisconsin.
Milwaukee also has a large Serbian populace with Serbian restaurants, a Serbian K-8 School, Serbian churches along with an American Serb Hall.
The American Serb Hall in Milwaukee is known for its Friday fish fries and prominent affairs.
The Bosnian populace is burgeoning in Milwaukee as well due to the recent migration after the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
By 1925, around 9,000 Mexican Americans lived in Milwaukee, but the Great Depression forced many of them to move back home.
During the first sixty years of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the primary city in which the Socialist Party of America earned the highest votes.
They were followed by Cudahy (1895), North Milwaukee (1897) and East Milwaukee, later known as Shorewood, in 1900.
By 1960, Milwaukee had grown to turn into one of the biggest cities in the United States.
By the late 1960s, Milwaukee's populace had started to diminish due to white flight Milwaukee had a populace of 636,212 by 1980, while the populace of the urbane region increased.
Milwaukee avoided the harsh declines of its fellow "rust belt" metros/cities due to its large immigrant populace and historic neighborhoods.
These accomplishments have substantially slowed the populace decline and has stabilized many parts of Milwaukee.
Largely through its accomplishments to preserve its history, in 2006 Milwaukee was titled one of the "Dozen Distinctive Destinations" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 2010, the Enumeration Bureau released amended populace numbers for Milwaukee that showed the town/city gained population, burgeoning by 1.3%, between 2000 and 2009.
This was the first populace increase the town/city of Milwaukee has seen since the 1960 census.
Historic Milwaukee strolling tours furnish a guided tour of Milwaukee's historic districts, including topics on Milwaukee's architectural heritage, its glass skywalk system, and the Milwaukee Riverwalk.
Panorama map of Milwaukee, with a view of the City Hall tower, c.
Milwaukee lies along the shores and bluffs of Lake Michigan at the confluence of three rivers: the Menomonee, the Kinnickinnic, and the Milwaukee.
Milwaukee's terrain is sculpted by the glacier path and contains steep bluffs along Lake Michigan that begin about a mile (1.6 km) north of downtown.
In addition, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Milwaukee is the Kettle Moraine and lake nation that provides an industrialized landscape combined with inland lakes.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 96.80 square miles (250.71 km2), of which, 96.12 square miles (248.95 km2) is territory and 0.68 square miles (1.76 km2) is water. The town/city is overwhelmingly (99.89% of its area) in Milwaukee County, but there are two tiny unpopulated parts of it that extend into neighboring counties.
Bank Center, Wisconsin Gas Building, Cathedral Place, The Pfister Hotel, AT&T Building, Chase Tower, 100 East Wisconsin, and scaffolded Milwaukee City Hall One of the diverse ive traits of Milwaukee's residentiary areas are the neighborhoods full of so-called Polish flats.
Of the 50 biggest cities in the United States, Milwaukee has the second-coldest average annual temperature, after Minneapolis-St.
Because of Milwaukee's adjacency to Lake Michigan, a convection current forms around mid-afternoon in light wind, resulting in the so-called "lake breeze" - a lesser scale version of the more common sea breeze.
Because Milwaukee's official climate site, General Mitchell International Airport, is only 3 miles (4.8 km) from the lake, cyclic temperature variations are less extreme than in many other locations of the Milwaukee urbane area.
Milwaukee tends to experience highs that are 90 F (32 C) on or above 7 days per year, and lows at or below 0 F ( 18 C) on 6 7 evenings. Extremes range from 105 F (41 C) set on July 24, 1934 down to 26 F ( 32 C) on both January 17, 1982 and February 4, 1996. The 1982 event, also known as Cold Sunday, featured temperatures as low as 40 F ( 40 C) in some of the suburbs as little as 10 miles (16 km) to the north of Milwaukee.
In 2000, the Enumeration estimated at least 1,408 same-sex homeholds in Milwaukee, or about 0.6% of all homeholds in the city. Gay-friendly communities have advanced primarily in Walker's Point, but also in Bay View, Historic Third Ward, Washington Heights, Riverwest, and the East Side.
In 2001, Milwaukee was titled the #1 town/city for lesbians by Girlfriends magazine. 17.3% of Milwaukee's populace was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race) (11.7% Mexican, 4.1% Puerto Rican). Milwaukee is the 31st most crowded city in the United States, and anchors the 39th most crowded Metropolitan Travel Destination in the United States.
In 2012, Milwaukee was listed as a gamma global town/city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
According to the 2006 2008 American Community Survey, 38.3% of Milwaukee's inhabitants announced having African American lineage and 20.8% announced German ancestry.
According to the 2010 United States Census, the biggest Hispanic backgrounds in Milwaukee as of 2010 were: Mexican (69,680), Puerto Rican (24,672), Other Hispanic or Latino (3,808), Central American (1,962), South American (1,299), Cuban (866) and Dominican (720). The Milwaukee urbane region was cited as being the most segregated in the U.S.
In 2003, a non-peer reviewed study was conducted by hired researchers at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee which claimed Milwaukee is not "hypersegregated" and instead rates as the 43rd most integrated town/city in America. In 2011, as stated to an article by Daniel Denvir at www.salon.org, John Paul Dewitt of censusscope.org and the University of Michigan's Social Science Data Analysis Network looks at census data and finds Milwaukee to be the most segregated urban region in the US. Through continued dialogue between Milwaukee's people, the town/city is trying to reduce ethnic tensions and the rate of segregation. With demographic shifts in the wake of white flight, segregation in urbane Milwaukee is primarily in the suburbs clean water the town/city as in the era of Father Groppi. In 2015 Milwaukee was rated as the "worst town/city for black Americans" based on disparities in employment and income levels. The city's black populace experiences disproportionately high levels of incarceration and a harsh educational achievement gap. In 2013 Mark Pfeifer, the editor of the Hmong Studies Journal, stated Hmong in Milwaukee had recently been moving to the northwest side of Milwaukee; they historically lived in the north and south areas of Milwaukee. The Hmong American Peace Academy/International Peace Academy, a K-12 school fitness in Milwaukee centered on the Hmong community, opened in 2004. As of 2010, roughly 51.8% of inhabitants in the Milwaukee region said they regularly visited theological services.
24.6% of the Milwaukee region population identified as Catholic, 10.8% as Lutheran, 1.6% as Methodist, and 0.6% as Jewish. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee are headquartered in Milwaukee.
The School Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis have their mother home in Milwaukee, and a several other theological orders have a momentous existence in the area, including the Jesuits and Franciscans.
Milwaukee, where Father Josef Kentenich was exiled for 14 years from 1952 to 1965, is also the center for the Schoenstatt Movement in the United States.
Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, northwest of Milwaukee, in Hubertus, Wisconsin, was also made a Basilica in 2006.
Milwaukee is home for a several Lutheran Church Synods, including the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), which operates Concordia University in Mequon and Milwaukee Lutheran High School, the nation's earliest Lutheran high school; and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which was established in 1850 in Milwaukee and maintains its nationwide headquarters there.
Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral is a landmark of the Serbian improve in Milwaukee, positioned by the American Serb hall.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a existence in the Milwaukee area.
The Milwaukee region has two stakes, with fourteen wards and four chapters among them.
The region is part of the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission. Milwaukee's beginning fathers had a vision for the city: they knew it was perfectly situated as a port city, a center for collecting and distributing produce.
By 1860, Wisconsin was the second ranked wheat-growing state in the nation and Milwaukee shipped more wheat than any place in the world.
Railroads were needed to transport all this grain from the wheat fields of Wisconsin to Milwaukee's harbor.
Milwaukee did solidify its place as the commercial capital of Wisconsin and an meaningful market in the Midwest. Because of its easy access to Lake Michigan and other waterways, Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley has historically been home to manufacturing, stockyards, rendering plants, shipping, and other heavy industry.
Grain elevators were assembled and, due to Milwaukee's dominant German immigrant population, breweries sprang up around the refining of barley and hops.
By 1856, there were more than two dozen breweries in Milwaukee, most of them owned and directed by Germans.
Milwaukee was once the home to four of the world's biggest beer breweries (Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst, and Miller), and was the number one beer producing town/city in the world for many years.
The historic Milwaukee Brewery in "Miller Valley" at 4000 West State Street, is the earliest functioning primary brewery in the United States.
This created extra brewery jobs in Milwaukee, but the company's world command posts moved from Milwaukee to Chicago.
In addition to Miller and the heavily automated Leinenkugel's brewery in the old Blatz 10th Street plant, other stand-alone breweries in Milwaukee include Milwaukee Brewing Company, a microbrewery in Walker's Point neighborhood; Lakefront Brewery, a microbrewery in Brewers Hill; Sprecher Brewery, a German brewery that also brews craft soft-drinks; Enlightened Brewing Company, a nanobrewery in Walker's Point; and Brenner Brewing, also in Walker's Point.
Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, two sitcoms that aired on ABC in the 1970s and 1980s, were set in Milwaukee, and often used the Milwaukee breweries as a backdrop for the storyline.
Astronautics Corporation of America and Brady Corporation, both of which have command posts in Milwaukee, and Wisconsin Plating Works Inc., Racine, each received special awards.
Milwaukee is the home to the global headquarters of six Fortune 500 companies: Johnson Controls, Northwestern Mutual, Manpower, Rockwell Automation, Harley-Davidson and Joy Global. Other companies based in Milwaukee include Briggs & Stratton, Marshall & Ilsley (acquired by BMO Harris Bank in 2010), Hal Leonard, Wisconsin Energy, the American Society for Quality, A.
The Milwaukee urbane region ranks fifth in the United States in terms of the number of Fortune 500 business command posts as a share of the population.
Milwaukee also has a large number of financial service firms, especially those specializing in mutual funds and transaction refining systems, and a number of publishing and printing companies.
Often alluded to as the City of Festivals, Milwaukee has various cultural affairs which take place throughout the summer at Henry Maier Festival Park, on the lake.
Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum is perhaps Milwaukee's most visually prominent cultural attraction; especially its $100 million wing designed by Santiago Calatrava in his first American commission. The exhibition contains a brise soleil, a moving sunscreen that unfolds similar to the wing of a bird.
The Grohmann Museum, at Milwaukee School of Engineering includes the world's most elected art compilation dedicated to the evolution of human work. It homes the Man at Work collection, which consists more than 700 paintings and sculptures dating from 1580 to the present.
The Milwaukee Public Museum has been Milwaukee's major natural history and human history exhibition for 125 years, with over 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) of permanent exhibits. Exhibits feature Africa, Europe, the Arctic, Oceania, and South and Middle America, the ancient Western civilizations ("Crossroads of Civilization"), dinosaurs, the tropical rainforest, streets of Old Milwaukee, a European Village, live insects and arthropods ("Bugs Alive!") a Sampson Gorilla replica, the Puelicher Butterfly Wing, hands-on laboratories, and animatronics.
Milwaukee Public Museum owns the world's biggest dinosaur skull. Discovery World, Milwaukee's biggest exhibition dedicated to science, is just south of the Milwaukee Art Museum along the lake front.
The S/V Dennis Sullivan Schooner Ship docked at Discovery World is the world's only re-creation of an 1880s-era three-masted vessel and the first schooner to be assembled in Milwaukee in over 100 years.
It is owned and directed by the Milwaukee County Park System, and replaced the initial Milwaukee Conservatory which stood from 1898 to 1955.
Milwaukee County Historical Society features Milwaukee amid the late 19th century through the mid-20th century.
Housed inside an architectural landmark, the Milwaukee's Historical Society features a panoramic painting of Milwaukee, firefighting equipment, reconstructionreplicas of a pharmacy and a bank, and Children's world an exhibit that contains vintage toys, clothes and school materials.
Mitchell Gallery of Flight, at General Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee's aviation and historical enthusiasts experience the history of General Mitchell International Airport with a visit to the Gallery of Flight.
In determining his ranking, Greenberg cited among other things the city's number of "standout historical structures", such as the Pabst Mansion and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Milwaukee Youth Arts Center In 1984 Comedy - Sportz was established in Milwaukee by indigenous Dick Chudnow and has since turn into a franchise, with various venues throughout the United States and England.
In July 2009 the Comedy - Sportz world championship returned to Milwaukee to coincide with its 25th anniversary.
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center Main article: List of enhance art in Milwaukee Milwaukee has some 75 sculptures to honor the many citizens and topics reflecting the city's history. Among the more prominent monuments are: While Milwaukee had been previously marketed as "A Genuine American City" as well as "A Great Place on a Great Lake", it has earned the nickname, the "City of Festivals." The African, Arab, Irish (Irish Fest), Mexican, and American Indian affairs wrap it up from August through September. Milwaukee is also home to Trainfest, the biggest operating model barns show in America, in November.
Milwaukee's ethnic cuisines include German, Italian, Russian, Hmong, French, Serbian, Polish, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Ethiopian.
Famous Chef Julia Child attended Milwaukee and chose Milwaukee indigenous chef Sanford D'Amato to cook for her 80th birthday. D'Amato, trained in New York City, is the executive chef for Milwaukee's five-star restaurant Sanford, and Coquette Cafe Milwaukee. Milwaukee County hosts the Zoo-A La Carte at the Milwaukee County Zoo, and various ethnic celebrations like Summerfest, German Fest, and Festa Italiana to jubilate various types of cuisine in summer months.
The first ordered musical society, called "Milwaukee Beethoven Society" formed in 1843, three years before the town/city was incorporated. Hal Leonard Corporation, established in 1947 is one of the world's biggest music print publishers, and is headquartered in Milwaukee.
Summerfest claims to be the world's biggest music festival and was established in Milwaukee in 1968.
Venues such as Pabst Theater, Marcus Center for Performing Arts, the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Marcus Amphitheater (Summerfest Grounds), Riverside Theater, the Northern Lights Theater, and The Rave incessantly bring internationally known acts to Milwaukee.
The Milwaukee region is known for producing nationwide talents such as Steve Miller (rock), Wladziu Valentino Liberace (piano), Al Jarreau (jazz), Eric Benet (neo-soul), Speech (hip hop), Daryl Stuermer (rock), Bo - Deans (rock), Les Paul (jazz), the Violent Femmes (alternative), Coo Coo Cal (rap), Die Kreuzen (punk), Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy (punk), Eyes To The Sky (hardcore), Rico Love (R&B), Andrew 'The Butcher' Mrotek of The Academy Is...
Through its Milwaukee Wireless Initiative, the town/city has contracted with Midwest Fiber Networks to invest US$20 million in setting up a municipal wireless network city-wide.
Milwaukee Bucks Basketball 1968 National Basketball Association BMO Harris Bradley Center Milwaukee Brewers Baseball 1970 National League (MLB) Miller Park Milwaukee Admirals Hockey 1970 American Hockey League UW Milwaukee Panther Arena (beginning with the 2016-2017 season) Milwaukee Wave Indoor soccer 1984 Major Arena Soccer League UW Milwaukee Panther Arena Milwaukee Marauders Semi-Pro Football 2005 North American Football League Milwaukee Sports Complex Milwaukee Blast (defunct) Basketball 2011 American Basketball Association Wisconsin Lutheran College Although the town/city presently has no NFL team (it supported the Milwaukee Badgers in the 1920s), Milwaukee is considered a home market for the Green Bay Packers. The team split its home schedule between Green Bay and Milwaukee from 1933 to 1994, with the majority of the Milwaukee games being played at County Stadium. Former season ticketholders for the Milwaukee games continue to receive preference for one pre-season and the second and fifth regular season games at Lambeau Field each season, along with playoff games through a lottery under the "Gold Package" plan. The Packers' longtime flagship station is Milwaukee-based WTMJ AM 620. Abraham Lincoln watched cricket in Milwaukee in 1849 when he visited a game between Chicago and Milwaukee.
Milwaukee was also the host town/city of the International Cycling Classic, which encompassed the men's and women's Superweek Pro Tour competitions, featuring top experienced and elite amateur cyclists and squads from athwart the U.S.
Main article: Parks of Milwaukee Milwaukee County is known for its well-developed Parks of Milwaukee park system. The "Grand Necklace of Parks", designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park, contains Lake Park, River Park (now Riverside Park), and West Park (now Washington Park).
Milwaukee County Parks offer facilities for sunbathing, picnics, grilling, disc golf, and ice skating. Milwaukee has over 140 parks with over 15,000 acres (6,100 ha) of parks and parkways.
In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land, a nationwide land conservation organization, announced Milwaukee had the 19th best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
The Monarch Trail, on the Milwaukee County Grounds in Wauwatosa, is a 1.25-mile (2 km) trail that highlights the fall migration of the monarch butterflies. During the summer months, Cathedral Park in Downtown Milwaukee hosts "Jazz in the Park" on Thursday evenings. Nearby Pere Marquette Park hosts "River Rhythms" on Wednesday evenings.
Milwaukee County enhance markets The Milwaukee Public Market Milwaukee Public Market, in the Third Ward neighborhood, is an indoor market that sells produce, seafood, meats, cheeses, vegetables, candies, and flowers from small-town businesses.
Milwaukee County Farmers Markets, held in season, sell fresh produce, meats, cheeses, jams, jellies, preserves and syrups, and plants.
Locations include: Aur Farmers Market, Brown Deer Farmers Market, Cudahy Farmers Market, East Town Farm Market, Enderis Park Farmers Market, Fondy Farmers Market, Mitchell Street Market, Riverwest Farmers Market, Silver Spring Farmers Market, South Milwaukee Farmers Market, South Shore Farmers Market, Uptown Farmers Market, Wauwatosa Farmers Market, West Allis Farmers Market, and Westown Market on the Park.
Milwaukee has a history of giving long tenures to its mayors; from Frank Zeidler to current mayor Tom Barrett, the town/city has had only four mayors in the last 60 years.
When 28-year incumbent Henry Maier retired in 1988, he held the record for longest term of service for a town/city of Milwaukee's size.
In addition to the election of a Mayor and Common Council on the town/city level, Milwaukee inhabitants elect county delegates to the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors, as well as a Milwaukee County Executive.
Tim Carpenter (D), Lena Taylor (D), Leah Vukmir (R), Nikiya Harris (D), Chris Larson (D), Alberta Darling (R), and Mary Lazich (R) represent Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Senate, and Daniel Riemer (D), Jo - Casta Zamarripa (D), Josh Zepnick (D), David Bowen (D), Mandela Barnes (D), Frederick P.
Kooyenga (R), Leon Young (D), La Tonya Johnson (D), Evan Goyke (D), Jonathan Brostoff (D), Christine Sinicki (D), Janel Brandtjen (R), and Mike Kuglitsch (R) represent Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Milwaukee makes up the overwhelming majority of Wisconsin's 4th congressional district.
A Mexican Consulate is also positioned in Milwaukee that serves a total of 65 counties in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For a several years, Milwaukee ranked among the ten most dangerous large metros/cities in the United States. Even with its enhancement since then, Milwaukee still fares worse when comparing specific crime types to the nationwide average (e.g., homicide, rape, robbery); only aggravated assaults occur less incessantly in Milwaukee than the nationwide average. The Milwaukee Police Department's Gang Unit was reactivated in 2004 after Nannette Hegerty was sworn in as chief.
In 2006, 4,000 charges were brought against suspects through Milwaukee's Gang Unit. In 2013 there were 105 murders in Milwaukee and 87 homicides the following year. In 2015, 146 citizens were killed in the city. Milwaukee presently rates the second poorest town/city with over 500,000 residents, only falling behind Detroit. In 2013, a Point-In-Time survey estimated 1,500 citizens are homeless on Milwaukee's streets each evening. The city's homeless and poor are aided by a several small-town nonprofits, including the Milwaukee Rescue Mission.
Merrill Hall at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Main article: Milwaukee Public Schools Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the biggest school precinct in Wisconsin and thirty third in the nation.
Milwaukee Public Schools operate as magnet schools, with individualized specialty areas for interests in academics or the arts.
Washington High School, Riverside University High School, Rufus King High School, Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School, Samuel Morse Middle School for ted and Talented, Golda Meir School, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, and Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School are some of the magnet schools in Milwaukee.
In 2007, 17 MPS high schools appeared on a nationwide list of "dropout factories" - schools where severaler than 60% of freshmen graduate on time. Milwaukee is also home to over two dozen private or parochial high schools (e.g., St.
Anthony High School, Divine Savior Holy Angels High School, Thomas More High School, Dominican High School, Messmer High School, Marquette University High School, Milwaukee Lutheran High School, Pius XI High School, St.
Joan Antida High School, and University School of Milwaukee among others) and many private and parochial middle and elementary schools.
Of persons in Milwaukee aged 25 and above, 84.5% have a high school diploma, and 27% have a bachelor's degree or higher.
In 2000, Milwaukee ranked 6th among the 30 biggest North American metros/cities in number of college pupils per capita.[needs update] Milwaukee region universities and colleges: Milwaukee Area Technical College Milwaukee School of Engineering University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Milwaukee's everyday journal is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which was formed when the morning paper the Milwaukee Sentinel consolidated with the afternoon paper Milwaukee Journal.
Other small-town newspapers, town/city guides and magazines with large distributions include M Magazine, Milwaukee Magazine, The Bay View Compass, and Riverwest Currents.
The UWM Post is the autonomous, pupil-run weekly at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
Milwaukee's enhance transmitting stations are WMVS 10 and WMVT 36.
Other tv stations in the Milwaukee market include WMKE-CD 7 (Soul of the South Network), WVCY 30 (FN), WBME-CD 41 (Me-TV), WMLW-TV 49 (Independent), WWRS 52 (TBN), Sportsman Channel, and WPXE 55 (ION) There are various airways broadcasts throughout Milwaukee and the encircling area.
The Milwaukee Regional Medical Complex, between 8700 and 9200 West Wisconsin Avenue, is on the Milwaukee County grounds.
Francis Hospital, The Wisconsin Heart Hospital, Elmbrook Memorial (Brookfield), and other outpatient clinics in the Milwaukee area.
Mary's Hospital is on Milwaukee's lakeshore and has established affiliations with Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
The Medical College of Wisconsin is one of two medical schools in Wisconsin and the only one in Milwaukee.
Other community care non-profit organizations in Milwaukee include nationwide headquarters of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the Endometriosis Association.
Milwaukee has two airports, General Mitchell International Airport (KMKE) on the southern edge of the city, and Lawrence J.
Southwest, Frontier Airlines, American Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada and Delta Air Lines are among the carriers using Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport gates. In July 2015, General Mitchell International Airport served 610,271 travelers. Milwaukee's Amtrak station was renovated in 2007 to problematic the Milwaukee Intermodal Station near downtown Milwaukee and the Third Ward to furnish Amtrak riders access to Greyhound Lines, Jefferson Lines and other intercity bus operators.
Milwaukee is served by the Amtrak Hiawatha express service up to seven times everyday between the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and Union Station, including a stop at the Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station, Sturtevant, Wisconsin, and Glenview, Illinois.
The Amtrak Empire Builder traveler train stops at the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and joins to Chicago and the Pacific Northwest, with stops near Madison, Wisconsin Dells, and Minneapolis.
In 2010, $800 million in federal funds were allocated to the creation of high-speed rail links from Milwaukee to Chicago and Madison; but the funds were eventually rejected by newly voted for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. In 2016, Wis - DOT and IDOT conducted studies to upgrade service on the Amtrak Hiawatha line from seven to ten times everyday between downtown Milwaukee and downtown Chicago. The Badger Bus station in downtown Milwaukee provides bus service between Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin.
The Milwaukee County Transit System provides bus services inside Milwaukee County.
A undivided streetcar system, the Milwaukee Streetcar, is now being constructed to connect the Milwaukee Intermodal Station, downtown Milwaukee, and Ogden Avenue, at a projected cost of$122 million.
A 0.5% revenue tax was proposed for the counties of Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha by the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority to fund the KRM (Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee) Commuter Rail universal serving those metros/cities as well as a several other stops on the route.
In Milwaukee, the line was to terminate at the Milwaukee Intermodal Station.
Three of Wisconsin's Interstate highways intersect in Milwaukee.
In 2010, the Milwaukee region was ranked the 4th best town/city for commuters by Forbes. Milwaukee's chief port, Port of Milwaukee, handled 2.4 million metric tons of cargo through its municipal port in 2014. Steel and salt are handled at the port.
It has created a plan labeling 145 miles (233 km) of those as high before ity for receiving bike lanes. As part of the city's Bicycle and Pedestrian Task Force's mission to "make Milwaukee more bicycle and pedestrian friendly", over 700 bike racks have been installed throughout the city. The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin holds an annual Bike to Work Week.
In 2006, Milwaukee obtained bronze-level status from the League of American Bicyclists, a rarity for a town/city its size. In 2009, the Milwaukee County Transit System began installing bicycle racks to the front of county buses. This "green" accomplishment was part of a settlement of an asbestos lawsuit leveled by the state at the county in 2006. The lawsuit cites the release of asbestos into the surrounding when the Courthouse Annex was demolished. In August 2014, Milwaukee debuted a bicycle sharing fitness called Bublr Bikes, which is a partnership between the City of Milwaukee and a small-town non-profit Midwest Bike Share (dba Bublr Bikes). As of September 2016, the fitness operates 39 stations throughout downtown, the East Side, and the UW-Milwaukee ground area and near downtown neighborhoods.
The City of Milwaukee is scheduled to install another 10 Bublr Bikes stations in October 2016, and the contiguous suburb of Wauwatosa installed 8 stations in September 2016, which will bring the fitness size to 58 stations by the end of 2016.
Future fitness expansion in the City of Milwaukee is also expected as the City was awarded a second federal Congestion Mitigation/Air Quality (CMAQ) program grant ($1.9 million) to add more stations starting in 2018. On February 10, 2015, a streetcar connecting the Milwaukee Intermodal Station with the city's lower east side was allowed by the Common Council, bringing if not to a halt then at least to a pause, decades of sometimes acrimonious debate.
The building, dubbed "The Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons", would stand 550 feet tall and have 32 stories, making it the second tallest building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Main article: List of citizens from Milwaukee, Wisconsin As of 2015, Milwaukee has seven sister metros/cities and two friendship metros/cities around the world: Officials from Milwaukee and Ningbo have signed an agreement to promote company and cultural ties between the two metros/cities and their respective nations. Officials from Milwaukee and Kanpur have agreed to establish a sister town/city relationship as a part of educational and industrialized exchange between both cities. "What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)", a 1968 song written by Glenn Sutton, specifically references the slogan of Schlitz beer, "The beer that made Milwaukee famous." Milwaukee was the setting for two American tv shows in the 1970s and 1980s: Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley.
The town/city of Milwaukee unveiled a life-sized, bronze statue of Fonzie from Happy Days along the downtown Riverwalk on August 19, 2008 to different reaction. Danny Gokey, from Milwaukee, was the third-place finalist amid the eighth season (2009) of American Idol.
Milwaukee was one of the audition metros/cities for the 2010 2011 American Idol auditions.
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"Citizens and MMFHC Respond to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article: Getting the Facts Right on Segregation in Milwaukee" (PDF).
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Milwaukee is the Worst Place for African Americans Because of County Sheriff David Clarke - City - Lab Why Is Milwaukee So Bad For Black People? a b "Milwaukee County Historical Society Milwaukee Timeline 1800s".
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City of Milwaukee website City of Milwaukee website The Milwaukee County Parks Department was titled the 2009 winner of the National Recreation and Park Association's (NRPA) Gold Medal Award in the Park and Recreation Management Program.
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"Activists hope engineering school won't disturb Monarch Trail: Thousands of monarchs fly south annually along path through Milwaukee County Grounds".
See e.g., Violent crime rankings, 2001 Milwaukee is ranked seventh among large metros/cities Archived March 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
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"The face of Milwaukee Public Schools is changing".
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"Port of Milwaukee: 2014 Annual Report".
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Merchants stress on tie-ups between Kanpur and Milwaukee - The Times of India "Transformers 3 Wraps at Milwaukee Art Museum, Returns to Chicago This Weekend Transformers".
Eric Fure-Slocum, Contesting the Postwar City: Working-Class and Growth Politics in 1940s Milwaukee.
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