Do you know where the name 'Milwaukee' originates and what it means? Or that the city was originally settled by the French - not Germans? Learn more interesting facts and trivia about the city we call home.
Below is a quick cheat-sheet of information about Milwaukee - original source is wikipedia.com.
- Milwaukee, with 594,833 inhabitants, is the 28th most populous city in the United States.
- Incorporated in 1846, Miwaukee was discovered in 1818 by French-Canadian Solomon Juneau who later became the city's first mayor.
- 'Milwaukee', which means 'gathering place', originated from either the Potowatomi or Ojibwe indians.
- Milwaukee has the fourth largest Polish population in the country.
- Between 1900 and 1960, Milwaukee elected three Socialist party mayors who governed the city a total of 38 years combined.
- Milwaukee is second behind Minneapolis for having the coldest average annual temperature of the 50 largest cities in the US.
- There are 87.2 males to every 100 females age 18 and older.
- $37,879 is the median family income.
- 58% of Milwaukeans are Catholic followed by 23% Lutheran.
- Some famous musical acts from Milwaukee include:
- Steve Miller
- Liberace
- Violent Femmes
- The Gufs
- BoDeans
- This year, Walk Score ranked Milwaukee as the 15th most walkable city of the 50 largest US cities.
- Other famous people who were born in Milwaukee:
- Caroline Ingalls, born in Brookfield, mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Charlotte Rae (Lubotsky), actress, best known as Mrs. Edna Garrett on Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life
- Speech, lead singer of Arrested Development
- Neal Ulevich — Pulitizer prize winning photographer
- Bill Weir – co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America Weekend Edition
- Deidre Hall — actress, NBC Soap opera Days of our Lives
- Gene Wilder — actor, collaborations with Mel Brooks and marriage to Gilda Radner
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