Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Milwaukee, also known as the City of Milwaukee, is the most populous city and county seat in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, Milwaukee had a population of 577,222, making it the 31st-largest city in the country, the fifth-largest in the Midwest, and the second-largest city along the shore of Lake Michigan after Chicago. 

It serves as the main economic and cultural hub of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Midwest, the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The Globalization and World Cities Research Network classifies Milwaukee as a "Gamma minus" global metropolis with a regional GDP of more than $102 billion in 2020.

Milwaukee is currently one of the American cities with the highest levels of racial and cultural diversity. However, it is still one of the most racially segregated, partly as a result of redlining in the early 20th century. German immigrants had a significant impact on its history in the 19th century, and it continues to be a hub for German American culture, becoming renowned for its brewing industry in particular. Milwaukee has experienced its biggest construction boom since the 1960s in recent years. The Wisconsin Center, American Family Field, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Bradley Symphony Center, and Discovery World, as well as significant renovations to the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, are just a few of the significant newcomers to the city since the turn of the twenty-first century. A venue for athletic events and concerts, Fiserv Forum opened its doors in late 2018. One of the biggest music festivals in the world, Summerfest, has been held in Milwaukee every year since 1968. Milwaukee is home to the Medical College of Wisconsin, UW-Milwaukee, Marquette University, MSOE, as well as a number of other colleges and universities. The Bucks and the Brewers are two well-known professional sports franchises that call the city home. Several Fortune 500 firms call it home, including Harley-Davidson, Rockwell Automation, Northwestern Mutual, and WEC Energy Group. 

Geography 

The Menomonee, Kinnickinnic, and Milwaukee rivers all meet in Milwaukee, which is situated at the confluence of these three rivers on the bluffs and coastlines of Lake Michigan. The Root River and Lincoln Creek, two smaller rivers, also pass through the city. 

The glacier path shaped Milwaukee's landscape, which features steep cliffs along Lake Michigan that start about one mile (1.6 km) north of the city center. Additionally, the Kettle Moraine and Lake Country, which offers an industrial environment coupled with inland lakes, is located 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Milwaukee. 

The city has a total area of 96.80 square miles (250.71 km2), of which 96.12 square miles (248.95 km2) is land and 0.68 square miles (1.76 km2) is water, according to the United States Census Bureau. The majority of the city (99.89% of its total size) is located in Milwaukee County, although there are two minuscule, unpopulated areas that reach into adjacent counties. 

Climate 

A humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa) with cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers is produced by Milwaukee's location in the Great Lakes Region. The year's warmest month is July, with a 24-hour average temperature of 73.3 °F (22.9 °C), while the coldest month is January, with a 24-hour average temperature of 24.0 °F (4.4 °C).

Milwaukee's proximity to Lake Michigan causes a convection current to form in the middle of the afternoon with little wind, producing the so-called "lake breeze," a scaled-down variation of the more typical sea breeze. Most frequently, the lake wind occurs between the months of March and July. In most cases, colder temperatures shift 5 to 15 miles (8 to 24 km) inland due to this onshore flow, although considerably warmer conditions continue even further inland. The seasonal temperature changes are less extreme at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, the city's official climate site, than they are in many other parts of the Milwaukee metropolitan region because it is only 3 miles (4.8 km) from the lake. 

The convection current changes direction as the sun sets, creating an offshore flow that creates a land wind. Warmer air flows eastward toward the lakeshore once a land wind forms, occasionally causing high temperatures in the late evening. The lake breeze doesn't normally form if a southwest, west, or northwest wind is blowing faster than 15 mph (24 km/h), and it doesn't happen every day either. During the winter, the lake regulates cold air outbreaks along the lakeshore. 

In addition to the lake's effect, the urban heat island effect frequently causes midnight lows in downtown Milwaukee to be substantially warmer than those in the suburbs. In comparison to other inland locations, onshore winds cause Milwaukee's midday relative humidity levels to increase.

Hail and strong winds are common during the region's thunderstorms, which can be dangerous and destructive. They might occasionally bring a tornado. However, these storms are responsible for the majority of the city's summer rainfall. The majority of the precipitation falls during longer, heavier rain episodes in the spring and fall. Even during meteorological winter, on average, more than 40% of days see less than 1 inch (2.5 cm) of snow on the ground. A moderate snow cover can be seen on or persist for several winter days.

In Milwaukee, the average yearly high temperature is 90 °F (32 °C), while the average yearly low temperature is 0 °F (18 °C). Extreme temperatures have been recorded as low as 26 °F (32 °C) on February 4, 1996, and as high as 105 °F (41 °C), which occurred on July 24, 1934. Temperatures as low as 40 °F (40 °C) were recorded in some of the suburbs as close as 10 miles (16 km) to Milwaukee during the 1982 occurrence, also known as Cold Sunday. 

Religion 

In the Milwaukee region, 51.8% of the population reported frequently attending religious services as of 2010. Catholicism was practiced by 24.6% of people in the Milwaukee region, Lutheranism by 10.8%, Methodism by 1.6%, and Judaism by 0.6%. The majority of the state's Jews live in the Milwaukee metro region, which has a long history of Jewish immigration from German-speaking and Eastern European nations.

Milwaukee serves as the administrative center for both the Milwaukee Episcopal Diocese and the Milwaukee Roman Catholic Archdiocese. Milwaukee is home to the mother house of the School Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, as well as several other notable religious communities like the Franciscans and Jesuits. Milwaukee serves as the hub for the Schoenstatt Movement in the US. Father Josef Kentenich was exiled there for 14 years, from 1952 to 1965. The oldest church in Milwaukee, St. Joan of Arc Chapel, is located on the Marquette University campus. The St. Josaphat Basilica was the third church in the United States and the first in Wisconsin to receive the title of basilica. A basilica was also created in 2006 at the Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians in Hubertus, Wisconsin, northwest of Milwaukee. 

Several Lutheran synods, including the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which was established in Milwaukee in 1850, the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS), Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, and Milwaukee Lutheran High School, the country's oldest Lutheran high school, are all located in Milwaukee.

With its proximity to the American Serb hall, which the congregation also ran until putting it up for sale in January 2021 owing to financial difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 epidemic, the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral is a well-known landmark of the Serbian community in Milwaukee. 

There are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Milwaukee region. There are two stakes in the Milwaukee area, each with fourteen wards and four branches. The Chicago Illinois Temple is the closest temple. The Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission includes the region. 

Population 

Milwaukee is a city in Wisconsin's Milwaukee County. Additionally, Milwaukee County's County seat is there. It is the largest city in Wisconsin and the thirty-first largest city in the United States with a projected population of 571,939 in 2023. Milwaukee's population has declined by -3.49% from the most recent census, which showed a population of 592,649 in 2020, and is now falling at a pace of -0.31% annually. Milwaukee has a population density of 5,946 persons per square mile and a total length of approximately 97 miles.

Milwaukee has a poverty rate of 30.72% and a $57,332 average household income. The median monthly cost of rent in recent years has been, and the median value of a home is. Milwaukee has a 31.4 year median age, with 30.5-year men and 32.4-year females.

With a population of 1.57 million, Milwaukee serves as the principal city of the Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Despite experiencing strong expansion until the 1950s, Milwaukee has had negative growth ever since. Only with the 2010 census have traces of development become visible, albeit modest increase. 

About 1.57 million people reside in the Milwaukee metropolitan region as of 2016. 10% of Wisconsin's residents reside within the boundaries of Milwaukee, which is home to 30% of the state's total population. 

Top 2 News Websites 

OnMilwaukee 

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Current City Mayor 

Late in 2021, Mayor Cavalier Johnson was appointed acting mayor of the city of Milwaukee, and he immediately got to work making the place safer. He has given priority on reducing violence, fostering the economy, and improving traffic safety.