Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Milwaukee is the largest city within the state of Wisconsin and 22nd-largest in the United States. The city is the county seat of Milwaukee County, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, and is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Chicago. As of the 2004 U.S. Census estimate, Milwaukee had a population of 583,624. The city is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area with a population of 1.7 million.
Milwaukee is known as "The City of Festivals" for its great number of ethnic and musical festivals, the largest of which is Summerfest. It has also been called "the nation's watering hole," having more bars per capita than any other large city in the country. Milwaukee residents are known as Milwaukeeans. Milwaukeeans often comment that Milwaukee feels like "a big small town."
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The local economy
Although most people associate Milwaukee with beer, today companies like Miller Brewing employ less than one percent of the city's workers. Milwaukee's reputation as a blue collar town is more accurate, however, with 22 percent of the workforce involved in manufacturing, second only to San Jose, California and far higher than the national average of 16.5%. Service and managerial jobs are the fastest growing segments of the Milwaukee economy, and healthcare makes up 27% of all service jobs in the city.
Milwaukee is headquarters to six Fortune 1000 manufacturers and six Fortune 1000 service companies. Among these are Briggs & Stratton, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Controls, Manpower Inc., Marshall & Ilsley, Northwestern Mutual, Rockwell Automation, Roundy's Supermarkets, Metavante, Kohl's, and Wisconsin Energy. The Milwaukee area ranked number five in the nation when measuring the number of Fortune 500 companies as a share of the population, just behind the number four Minneapolis-St. Paul region. Milwaukee also has a large number of financial service firms, particularly those specializing in mutual funds and transaction processing systems, and a disproportionate number of publishing and printing companies, including Quad/Graphics. Milwaukee is also the headquarters of the Koss Corporation and Master Lock.
Source - Wikipedia: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Recent Milwaukee business news
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- Fine & Company WI, LLC, to Auction a Palatial 18,000 sq. ft. Country...
- Fine & Company WI, LLC the nation's boutique real estate auction company, announced an upcoming auction of one of Southern Wisconsin's palatial estates, an 18,000 square foot country estate in Darien, Wisconsin.
- Kendra Meinert column: Concert season won't pick up in fall
- As the touring industry rides out an especially bumpy year - gross revenues down 17 percent for the top 100 tours in the first six months alone - local concert goers can expect a quieter-than-normal finish to 2010 as well.
- UW-Eau Claire gets 'F' in national rating
- This year, UW-Eau Claire was ranked as one of the best institutions in the Midwest.
- Buyer of Four Points by Sheraton plans make over of Ann Arbor conference hotel
- Its generous share of the meeting and conference business makes the Four Points by Sheraton in Ann Arbor a prime opportunity for redevelopment.
- Major Update of FastTrack Scripting Host Puts Programming Power in IT Administrators' Hands
- Developed to Simplify the Work of System and Network Administrators, FastTrack Scripting Host Version 6.0, the Most Thorough Rapid Scripting Tool Available, is Released Today by Binary Research International.
- Workers picket outside Oshkosh post office
- OSHKOSH - Even Santa Claus doesn't want to see area mail processing leave Oshkosh.
- Rasmussen, Gloria
- Gloria Rasmussen, 80, Oconto Falls, died Wednesday morning, Sept. 1, 2010, at Sharpe Care, LTD.
- Students leaving WI is expected
- A recent poll found that Wisconsinites believe that Wisconsin's best and brightest leave the state after college.
See also
External links
- Official website
- Milwaukee business Chamber of Commerce
- Milwaukee information
