Frank Lloyd Wright Home Discovered
A retired teacher in Madison, Wisconsin, discovered this week that her house, which she bought for $100,000, was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wright experts announced on Tuesday that Linda McQuillen’s home is an American System-Built house, built as part of the great American architect’s effort to develop and market well-designed homes at an affordable level.
It is the second such house to be identified in the past four months, one of 16 ever built. Fourteen are still standing.
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Frank Lloyd Wright | HOW TO SEE the American Home with Matthew Skjonsberg and Michael Osman
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Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Spring Green (#407)
[Latest Airdate: August 2, 2018]
[Original Airdate: February 19, 2015]
How is a community of 1200 people home to two outstanding performing arts theaters, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and the most beautiful cave in the upper Midwest? What about the Ring Brothers? Wait until you see their work. Nina’s Department Store can seemingly transport you back in time. Wisconsin Riverside Resort has harnessed nature. The Opal Man’s creations are completely mesmerizing. And somehow there is a full size carousel inside the House on the Rock! Add to that the spell that White House Theater cast over John and the crew, and you, too, will have no other explanation: Magic! (7 of 13)
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Architectural Historian Jack Quinan on Frank Lloyd Wright
In conjunction with the exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home, featured in the Gallery at Penn College, renowned architectural historian Jack Quinan lectures on Wright and Samara. Quinan, founder of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of five books on the famed architect, examines Samara in the context of a representative selection of Wright's Usonian houses of differing typologies and eccentric geometries.
Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Around The Map In SE Wisconsin (#606)
[Latest Airdate: November 2, 2017]
[Original Airdate: February 9, 2017]
This episode is not community specific. What we chose were 12 organizations/places/people we wanted to cover in southeastern Wisconsin because... well, because we wanted to. The producers all got to pick based on their own curiosities. The only rule was that we had to be able to shoot at least three segments in one day and be back to the station in time for dinner every night. What does it say about a group who chooses Jones Island, a bell museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, pizza, ice cream and the Zoo? It says that apparently we're not all interested in the same things, but we are all really glad this worked out because we loved it. A special thanks to everyone in this episode for saying Yes instead of Why? Whether by region or by community, it's awesome to work in Wisconsin!
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Robert Silman: Preserving Falling Water - An American Icon
Fallingwater
Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.
Time stated after its completion as Wright's most beautiful job; it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places to visit before you die. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the best all-time work of American architecture and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.
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Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Sheboygan Falls & Kohler (#304)
[Latest Airdate: May 25, 2017]
[Original Airdate: January 30, 2014]
Like John says, this little pocket of Wisconsin is everything a Mainstreet Community ought to be! He went from longingly exploring the American Club and the Design Center in Kohler, to walking in awe through the aisles of Evans in Sheboygan Falls. (And if we wouldn't have threatened him, he'd still be in Evans!) And while John Gurda was researching the history of the area, the ladies at the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center were digging into John McGivern's history. This episode offers pickelball, music, vinyl, popcorn, great food, golf, churches and more.
It's no coincidence that the world's best known manufacturer of toilets is just miles down the road from the world's largest manufacturer of toilet seats. See? These two towns really do go together!
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Wisconsin ( (listen)) is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.
Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture.
Wisconsin is known as America's Dairyland because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), cranberries, ginseng and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.
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Wisconsin
00:01:31 1 Etymology
00:02:58 2 History
00:03:06 2.1 Early history
00:04:38 2.2 European settlements
00:07:49 2.3 U.S. territory
00:09:10 2.4 Statehood
00:11:10 2.5 Civil War
00:12:11 2.6 Economic progress
00:14:04 2.7 20th century
00:16:07 2.8 21st century
00:17:00 3 Geography
00:20:08 3.1 Climate
00:21:07 4 Demographics
00:21:17 4.1 Population
00:24:50 4.2 Religion
00:26:08 4.3 Crime
00:26:59 5 Government
00:27:36 5.1 Executive
00:28:17 5.2 Legislative
00:28:36 5.3 Judicial
00:29:29 5.4 Federal
00:29:47 5.5 Taxes
00:31:58 5.6 International relations
00:32:19 6 Politics
00:32:28 6.1 Federal elections
00:37:18 6.2 Lawmakers
00:38:22 6.3 Socialist politics
00:39:53 6.4 Pivotal votes
00:41:24 6.5 Swing to the right
00:42:15 7 Economy
00:43:37 7.1 Agriculture
00:45:14 7.2 Manufacturing
00:45:47 7.3 Consumer goods
00:46:25 7.4 Tourism
00:47:45 7.5 Film industry
00:48:23 7.6 Energy
00:49:05 8 Transportation
00:49:14 8.1 Airports
00:49:30 8.2 Major highways
00:49:49 8.3 Rail service
00:50:11 9 Important municipalities
00:51:29 10 Education
00:52:44 11 Culture
00:53:46 11.1 Art
00:53:54 11.1.1 Music
00:54:38 11.1.2 Architecture
00:55:16 11.2 Alcohol culture
00:57:00 12 Recreation
00:57:59 13 Sports
01:03:28 14 Notable people
01:03:37 15 See also
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Wisconsin ( (listen)) is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.
Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture.
Wisconsin is known as America's Dairyland because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), cranberries, ginseng and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.
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- Socrates
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Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties. The Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area's 2010 population was 568,593.
Founded in 1829 on an isthmus between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, Madison was named the capital of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and became the capital of the state of Wisconsin when it was admitted to the Union in 1848. That same year, the University of Wisconsin was founded in Madison and the state government and university have become the city's two largest employers. The city is also known for its lakes, restaurants, and extensive network of parks and bike trails, with much of the park system designed by landscape architect John Nolen.
Since the 1960s, Madison has been a center of political liberalism. Though Wisconsin is regarded as a battleground or swing state in elections, Madison and Dane County have supported every Democratic Party presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960, with the party's most recent nominees, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, carrying Dane County with over 70 per cent of the vote in 2008, 2012, and 2016.
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00:01:31 1 Etymology
00:02:58 2 History
00:03:07 2.1 Early history
00:04:38 2.2 European settlements
00:07:51 2.3 U.S. territory
00:09:12 2.4 Statehood
00:11:12 2.5 Civil War
00:12:14 2.6 Economic progress
00:14:07 2.7 20th century
00:16:11 2.8 21st century
00:17:03 3 Geography
00:20:13 3.1 Climate
00:21:13 4 Demographics
00:21:22 4.1 Population
00:24:57 4.2 Religion
00:26:15 4.3 Crime
00:27:07 5 Government
00:27:44 5.1 Executive
00:28:25 5.2 Legislative
00:28:44 5.3 Judicial
00:29:37 5.4 Federal
00:29:55 5.5 Taxes
00:32:06 5.6 International relations
00:32:27 6 Politics
00:32:36 6.1 Federal elections
00:37:27 6.2 Lawmakers
00:38:31 6.3 Socialist politics
00:40:02 6.4 Pivotal votes
00:41:33 6.5 Swing to the right
00:42:25 7 Economy
00:43:47 7.1 Agriculture
00:45:24 7.2 Manufacturing
00:45:58 7.3 Consumer goods
00:46:35 7.4 Tourism
00:47:55 7.5 Film industry
00:48:34 7.6 Energy
00:49:16 8 Transportation
00:49:25 8.1 Airports
00:49:41 8.2 Major highways
00:50:00 8.3 Rail service
00:50:22 9 Important municipalities
00:51:40 10 Education
00:52:55 11 Culture
00:53:58 11.1 Art
00:54:06 11.1.1 Music
00:54:50 11.1.2 Architecture
00:55:28 11.2 Alcohol culture
00:57:13 12 Recreation
00:58:13 13 Sports
01:03:42 14 Notable people
01:03:52 15 See also
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Wisconsin ( (listen)) is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.
Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture.
Wisconsin is known as America's Dairyland because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), cranberries, ginseng and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.
Milwaukee | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:35 1.1 Name
00:03:17 1.2 Native American Milwaukee
00:05:36 1.3 Milwaukee since European settlement
00:20:43 1.4 Historic neighborhoods
00:24:05 2 Geography
00:25:48 2.1 Cityscape
00:27:56 2.2 Climate
00:31:56 2.3 Water
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:34:41 3.1 2010 Census
00:37:39 3.2 Ethnic groups
00:41:32 3.3 Religion
00:44:09 4 Economy
00:44:18 4.1 Early economy
00:47:43 4.2 Brewing
00:51:31 4.3 Milwaukee's economy today
00:54:43 5 Culture
00:55:29 5.1 Museums
00:55:38 5.1.1 Art
00:57:09 5.1.2 Science and natural history
01:00:18 5.1.3 Social and cultural history
01:04:02 5.2 Arenas and performing arts
01:04:38 5.3 Public art and monuments
01:04:59 5.4 City of Festivals
01:06:49 5.5 Cuisine
01:07:47 5.6 Music
01:11:47 5.7 Municipal wireless
01:12:39 6 Sports
01:14:22 7 Parks and recreation
01:15:26 7.1 Parks and nature centers
01:16:04 7.2 Milwaukee County public markets
01:17:13 8 Government and politics
01:21:18 8.1 Crime
01:22:25 8.2 Poverty
01:23:00 9 Education
01:23:10 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:24:46 9.2 Higher education
01:24:59 10 Media
01:28:08 11 Infrastructure
01:28:18 11.1 Health care
01:29:53 11.2 Transportation
01:30:03 11.2.1 Airports
01:31:35 11.2.2 Intercity rail and bus
01:33:05 11.2.3 Transit
01:34:35 11.2.4 Highways
01:39:51 11.2.5 Water
01:40:28 11.2.6 Bicycle
01:43:44 11.2.7 Walkability
01:44:32 11.2.8 Modal characteristics
01:45:42 11.3 City development
01:47:46 12 Notable people
01:47:55 13 Sister cities
01:48:12 13.1 Friendship cities
01:48:33 14 See also
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Milwaukee (, locally ) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of the eponymous county, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2017 was 595,351. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively .Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018.
WPT Univesity Place: Writing Wisconsin's Communities
Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate; Fabu, Former Madison Poet Laureate; Dion Kempthorne, Dean Emeritus at UW-Richland Center; and Timothy Yu, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UW-Madison, discuss how poetry and fiction can shape the future of our communities by engaging diverse populations.
Explore the full archive of WPT's University Place lectures online at
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Wisconsin ( (listen)) is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, which is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.
Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture.
Wisconsin is known as America's Dairyland because it is one of the nation's leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology (IT), cranberries, ginseng and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.
Carl Sandburg's 79th Birthday / No Time for Heartaches / Fire at Malibu
Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 -- July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He was the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Sandburg indubitably an American in every pulse-beat.
Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg, Illinois, to parents of Swedish ancestry. At the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. From the age of about fourteen until he was seventeen or eighteen, he worked as a porter at the Union Hotel barbershop in Galesburg.[1] After that he was on the milk route again for eighteen months. He then became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas.[2] After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg,[3] he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha. He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. Later he wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews. Sandburg also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore. He spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina.
Sandburg volunteered to go to the military and was stationed in Puerto Rico with the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish--American War, disembarking at Guánica, Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898. Sandburg was never actually called to battle. He attended West Point for just two weeks, before failing a mathematics and grammar exam. Sandburg returned to Galesburg and entered Lombard College, but left without a degree in 1903.
He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and joined the Social Democratic Party, the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state. Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel, socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912.
Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907, and they married the next year. Lilian's brother was the photographer Edward Steichen. Sandburg with his wife, whom he called Paula, raised three daughters.
The Sandburgs moved to Harbert, Michigan, and then to suburban Chicago, Illinois. They lived in Evanston, Illinois, before settling at 331 S. York Street in Elmhurst, Illinois, from 1919 to 1930. Sandburg wrote three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories, in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), and Potato Face (1930). Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag (1927), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America (1928) in Elmhurst. The family moved to Michigan in 1930. The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot.
Sandburg's collection, The War Years was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. His Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.[4]
In 1945 he moved to Connemara, a 246-acre rural estate in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Here he produced a little over a third of his total published work, and lived with his wife, daughters, and two grandchildren until dying of natural causes in 1967.
Sandburg had his ashes interred under Remembrance Rock, a 5-foot-high granite boulder located behind his birth house.[5][6]
Sandburg supported the civil rights movement, and contributed to the NAACP.
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A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945) encompasses the ingenuity and innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States. Copyright protection secures a person's right to his or her first-to-invent claim of the original invention in question, highlighted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution which gives the following enumerated power to the United States Congress:
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein not before known or used. On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent under the new U.S. patent statute. The Patent Act of 1836 (Ch. 357, 5 Stat. 117) further clarified United States patent law to the extent of establishing a patent office where patent applications are filed, processed, and granted, contingent upon the language and scope of the claimant's invention, for a patent term of 14 years with an extension of up to an additional 7 years.From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below. Some examples of patented inventions between the years 1890 and 1945 include John Froelich's tractor (1892), Ransom Eli Olds' assembly line (1901), Willis Carrier's air-conditioning (1902), the Wright Brothers' airplane (1903), and Robert H. Goddard's liquid-fuel rocket (1926).
Fort Wayne, Indiana | Wikipedia audio article
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
00:02:17 1 The History
00:02:26 1.1 Early history
00:02:34 1.1.1 Native Americans and New France
00:03:33 1.1.2 British control
00:04:11 1.1.3 US Invasion of Native American Land
00:05:07 1.1.4 Settlement permitted by Treaty of St. Mary's
00:06:23 1.2 Modern history
00:10:46 2 Geography
00:11:35 2.1 Topography
00:13:51 2.2 Cityscape
00:15:15 2.2.1 Architecture
00:18:10 2.3 Climate
00:20:25 3 Demographics
00:23:06 3.1 Religion
00:24:47 4 Economy
00:29:41 5 Culture
00:29:50 5.1 Performing arts
00:31:25 5.2 Attractions
00:33:25 5.3 Festivals and events
00:35:26 6 Sports
00:37:37 7 Parks and recreation
00:39:56 8 Government
00:43:09 8.1 Politics
00:43:17 9 Education
00:43:26 9.1 Primary and secondary education
00:44:46 9.2 Higher education
00:46:15 9.3 Libraries
00:46:59 10 Media
00:48:15 11 Infrastructure
00:48:24 11.1 Transportation
00:53:10 11.2 Healthcare
00:54:03 11.3 Utilities
00:55:01 12 Notable people
00:55:10 13 Sister cities
00:55:46 14 See also
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Fort Wayne is a city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Allen County, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border. With a population of 253,691 in the 2010 census, it is the second-most populous city in Indiana after Indianapolis, and the 75th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Fort Wayne metropolitan area, consisting of Allen, Wells, and Whitley counties, a combined population of 419,453 as of 2011. Fort Wayne is the cultural and economic center of northeastern Indiana. The city is within a 200-mile (320 km) radius of major population centers, including Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, and Milwaukee.
In addition to the three core counties, the combined statistical area (CSA) includes Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, and Steuben counties, with an estimated population of 615,077.Fort Wayne was built in 1794 by the United States Army under the direction of American Revolutionary War general Anthony Wayne, the last in a series of forts built near the Miami village of Kekionga. Named in Wayne's honor, the European-American settlement developed at the confluence of the St. Joseph, St. Marys, and Maumee rivers as a trading post for pioneers. The village was platted in 1823 and underwent tremendous growth after completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal and advent of the railroad. Once a booming manufacturing town located in what became known as the Rust Belt, Fort Wayne's economy in the 21st century is based upon distribution, transportation and logistics, healthcare, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and financial services. The city is a center for the defense industry which employs thousands.Fort Wayne was an All-America City Award recipient in 1982, 1998, and 2009. The city also received an Outstanding Achievement City Livability Award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1999.
Chicago | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:34 1 Etymology and nicknames
00:05:51 2 History
00:06:00 2.1 Beginnings
00:07:21 2.2 Founding and 19th century
00:16:06 2.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:16:17 2.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:20:45 2.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:24:55 2.3.3 1980 to present
00:27:00 3 Geography
00:27:09 3.1 Topography
00:30:48 3.2 Communities
00:31:50 3.3 Streetscape
00:33:45 3.4 Architecture
00:36:39 3.5 Monuments and public art
00:39:31 3.6 Climate
00:42:34 4 Demographics
00:49:30 4.1 Religion
00:50:35 5 Economy
00:57:42 6 Culture and contemporary life
01:02:48 6.1 Entertainment and the arts
01:07:47 6.2 Festivals
01:08:56 6.3 Tourism
01:14:22 6.4 Cuisine
01:16:59 6.5 Literature
01:19:41 7 Sports
01:26:08 8 Parks and greenspace
01:29:04 9 Law and government
01:29:14 9.1 Government
01:30:38 9.2 Politics
01:34:05 9.3 Crime
01:39:46 9.4 Employee pensions
01:40:39 10 Education
01:40:48 10.1 Schools and libraries
01:44:40 10.2 Colleges and universities
01:46:53 11 Media
01:47:02 11.1 Television
01:48:53 11.2 Newspapers
01:49:56 11.3 Movies and Filming
01:51:32 11.4 Radio
01:52:21 11.5 Video Games
01:52:53 12 Infrastructure
01:53:02 12.1 Transportation
01:53:57 12.1.1 Expressways
01:54:53 12.1.2 Transit systems
01:56:57 12.1.3 Passenger rail
01:57:50 12.1.4 Bicycle-sharing system
01:58:38 12.1.5 Freight rail
01:59:44 12.1.6 Airports
02:00:55 12.1.7 Port authority
02:02:32 12.2 Utilities
02:04:04 12.3 Health systems
02:06:26 13 Sister cities
02:07:37 14 See also
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Chicago ( (listen), locally also ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States. As of the 2017 census-estimate, Chicago has a population of 2,716,450, which makes it the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. It is the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, which is often referred to as Chicagoland. The Chicago metropolitan area has nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States, the fourth largest in North America, and the third largest metropolitan area in the world by land area.
Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was one of the five largest cities in the world. During this period, Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.Chicago is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It was the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is the one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. Chicago has the fourth-largest gross metropolitan product in the world—generating about $670.5 billion accordi ...