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Smaller components are in publishing, milling, food processing, graphic arts, insurance, education, and high technology. [164] The MN Spoken Word Association and independent hip hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment have garnered attention for rap, hip hop and spoken word. [185] Founder of the Sioux Chef, Sean Sherman won two James Beard prizes in 2019—the leadership award and best cookbook. [124], The Twin Cities metropolitan area has the fifth highest concentration of major corporate headquarters in the country as of 2018,[125] and in 2020, five Fortune 500 corporations were headquartered within the city limits of Minneapolis. [230], The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is a Boston qualifier. [60] Water supply is managed by four watershed districts that correspond to the Mississippi and the city's three creeks. A comprehensive look at transportation and attractions around the MSP Airport and Mall of America. [98] A 2020 study found little change with Minnesota ranking only above the neighboring state of Wisconsin and equal to the states of Iowa, Louisiana, and New Mexico. [307] A public teaching hospital and Level I trauma center,[308] the Hennepin Healthcare safety net counted 643,739 clinic visits and 111,307 emergency and urgent care visits in 2019. Minneapolis, MN 55409. [251] Students speak over one hundred different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali. Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown. 1.888.676.MPLS, 505 Nicollet, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55402
Central European immigrants settled in the Northeast neighborhood, still known for its Czech[88] and Polish cultural heritage. The $1.5 billion compromise maintained the number of police officers, set aside $8 million for community safety measures, cut funding in all major city departments, and included a 5.75 percent property tax increase. [247], City council president Bender announced in 2020 that the city should dismantle its police department and replace it with a "transformative new model of public safety. [193] Young Joni was selected one of the GQ top ten new restaurants and one of Eater's twelve best new restaurants of 2017. [204], Major sporting events hosted by the city include baseball All-Star Games, World Series, Super Bowls, NCAA Division 1 men's and women's basketball Final Four, the AMA Motocross Championship, the X Games and the WNBA All-Star Game. [256] Beginning fall 2021, the University offers free tuition to students from Minnesota families earning less than $50,000 per year. The highest recorded temperature was 108 °F (42 °C) in July 1936 while the lowest was −41 °F (−41 °C) in January 1888. Minneapolis (/ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ (listen)) is the most populous city in the US state of Minnesota and the seat of Hennepin County. [191], Both credible originators of the burger, the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar have served the Jucy Lucy since the 1950s. [201] The Twins won the World Series in 1987 and 1991 and have played at Target Field since 2010. [246] The police union viewpoint protects officers with a legal doctrine of qualified immunity. #2 Best Value of 94 places to stay in Minneapolis. [265], Nineteen FM and AM radio stations are licensed to Minneapolis, including one from the University of Minnesota and one from the public schools. [146], The Guthrie Theater, the area's largest theater company, occupies a three-stage complex overlooking the Mississippi, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. [224], Made possible by Minneapolis' climate, opportunities for winter activities such as ice fishing, snowshoeing, ice skating, and sledding are available at many parks and lakes between December and March. [106] The first basilica in the US, and co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the Basilica of Saint Mary was named by Pope Pius XI in 1926. Working with surgeon C. Walton Lillehei, Medtronic began to build portable and implantable cardiac pacemakers about this time. Migrant workers from Mexico and Latin America interspersed. New wings, designed by Kenzo Tange and Michael Graves, opened in 1974 and 2006, respectively, for contemporary and modern works, as well as more gallery space. [95] As of 2019, African Americans make up about one fifth of the city's population. 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[135] The Minneapolis Grain Exchange, founded in 1881, is still located near the riverfront and is the only exchange for hard red spring wheat futures and options. [35] The gangster Kid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation from the 1920s until the 1940s. [115] The city has about 20 Buddhist and meditation centers. [99], Commentators and observers have written about historic racism and socioeconomic disparities in the city. [175], Alight helps 2.5 million refugees and displaced persons each year in Asili-Democratic Republic of Congo, Jordan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Thailand and Uganda. [237], At the federal level, Minneapolis proper sits within Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which has been represented since 2018 by Democrat Ilhan Omar, one of the first two practicing Muslim women and the first Somali-American in Congress. In 2013, Asians were the state's fastest growing population. Featured among its 180 park properties are 55 miles of parkways, 102 miles of Grand Rounds biking and walking paths, 22 lakes, 12 formal gardens, seven golf courses and 49 recreation centers. Login; Join; Donate ; About Us; Directory; Events. 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[173] According to AmeriCorps, in 2017 Minneapolis–Saint Paul ranked first among cities with 46.3% of the population volunteering. A map of the surrounding restaurants, entertainment and parking around the Convention Center. In fact, according to data shared by DRG, the Mill District’s median sales prices have increased 7% compared to last year, while the North Loop’s are up 5%. [41] Answering bigotry against Jewish doctors, Mount Sinai Hospital opened in 1948 as the community's first hospital to accept members of minority races and religions on its staff. [263] About 845,000 people have free library cards. [19], Outwitting the fort's commandant, Franklin Steele laid his claim on the east bank of Saint Anthony Falls,[17] and John H. Stevens built his home on the west bank. [314] The city treats and distributes water and charges a monthly solid waste fee for trash removal. [17] The fort attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth. [261] The new downtown Central Library designed by César Pelli opened in 2006. [37][38] The Ku Klux Klan succeeded by entering family life, but effectively was a force in the city only from 1921 until 1923. 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[57] During the last glacial period around ten thousand years ago, ice buried in these ancient river channels melted, resulting in basins that would fill with water to become the lakes of Minneapolis. Show Prices. [311] The ACSM American Fitness Index ranks the city third in 2020. [122] During the city's formative years, millers had to pay cash for wheat during the growing season and then hold it until it was needed for flour. [97], A 2015 report found that racial and ethnic minorities in the city lagged behind white counterparts in education, with 15 percent of blacks and 13 percent of Hispanics holding bachelor's degrees compared to 42 percent of the white population. [315], After each significant snowfall, called a snow emergency, the Minneapolis Public Works Street Division plows over 1,000 mi (1,610 km) of streets and 400 mi (640 km) of alleys—counting both sides, the distance between Minneapolis and Seattle and back. [22] New settlers arrived during the 1850s and 1860s from New England, New York, Bohemia[86] and Canada, and, during the mid-1860s, immigrants from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark began to call Minneapolis home. [a], Minneapolis is divided into eleven communities, each containing several neighborhoods, of which there are eighty-three. [28] The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable ($0.50 profit per barrel in 1871 increased to $4.50 in 1874),[27] and Minnesota "patent" flour was recognized at the time as the best in the world. [172], Philanthropy and charitable giving are part of the community. The police caused ten deaths in the decade preceding the killing of George Floyd,[242] and in 2021, Star Tribune counted 200 police-related deaths in the state this century. [213] More than a century after the system was designed, in its 2020 ParkScore ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that Minneapolis had the best park system among the 100 most populous US cities. [235] Elected in 2013, Lisa Bender serves as president of the City Council and does not plan to seek reelection. Movies filmed in Minneapolis include Airport (1970),[268] The Heartbreak Kid (1972),[269] Slaughterhouse-Five (1972),[270] Ice Castles (1978),[271] Foolin' Around (1980),[272] Take This Job and Shove It (1981),[273] Purple Rain (1984),[274] That Was Then, This Is Now (1985),[275] The Mighty Ducks (1992),[276] Untamed Heart (1993),[277] Little Big League (1994),[278] Beautiful Girls (1996),[279] Jingle All the Way (1996),[280] Fargo (1996),[281] and Young Adult (2011). [232] The council is progressive with twelve DFL members and one from the Green Party. [139] The company was founded in 1963 by Sir Tyrone Guthrie as a prototype alternative to Broadway, and it produces a wide variety of shows throughout the year. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including flour mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes, and planing wood. Minneapolis Freeways. This map shows the sports venues, bars, restaurants and parking in this hub for fun. [210] While living in Minneapolis, Scott and Brennan Olson founded (and later sold) Rollerblade, the company that popularized the sport of inline skating. [202], The 1,750,000-square-foot (163,000 m2) U.S. Bank Stadium was built for the Vikings for about $1.122 billion, with $348 million coming from the state of Minnesota and $150 million coming from the city of Minneapolis. [142], The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District has 400 independent artists, a center at the Northrup-King Building, and recurring annual events. Those who arrived from New England were for the most part Protestants, Quakers, and Universalists. [87] Other immigrants came from Germany, Poland, Italy, and Greece. Artist Features; The Call; In Studio Magazine; Contact Us. 5500 Stevens Avenue. There are 10 full-power television stations in the metro area, and one non-profit public access cable network. [243], KSTP-TV 5 Investigates found in 2020 that the city has paid millions in settlements because officers had been untruthful about use of force, for which they are rarely disciplined. City leaders sought to increase the supply of housing so that more neighborhoods would be affordable, and decrease the effects that single family zoning had caused on racial disparites and segregation. After the summer of 2020, the department lost 166 officers either to retirement or to temporary leave, many with PTSD, and a crime wave resulted in more than 500 shootings. [301] Forbes named MSP the second best airport in North America, behind Detroit in 2019. See them all in this handy map. Pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. This map shows the sports venues, bars, restaurants and parking in this hub for fun. Some areas are known by nicknames of business associations. TMC Publications publishes The Monitor and Longfellow Nokomis Messenger. Official records for Minneapolis/St. [192] East African cuisine arrived with a wave of Somali immigration which started in the 1990s. A city audit in 2019 found body camera activation eventually increased to 95% since a 2017 order from Arradondo. [297], Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) serves international, domestic, charter and regional carriers[298] and is home base for Sun Country Airlines. [262] Ten special collections hold over 25,000 books and resources for researchers, including the Minneapolis Collection and the Minneapolis Photo Collection. Special offer. [218] Approximately 15% of city land is parks, in accordance with the 2020 national median, and 98 percent of residents live within a half mile of a park. [144] Early theaters included the Pence Opera House,[144] the Academy of Music, the Grand Opera House, the Lyceum, and later the Metropolitan Opera House, which opened in 1894. [48] Minneapolis contended with white supremacy, participated in desegregation and the civil rights movement, and in 1968 was the birthplace of the American Indian Movement. In 1910, a Minneapolis developer wrote restrictive covenants based on race and ethnicity into his deeds. [259], Founded by T. B. Walker in 1885,[260] the Minneapolis Public Library merged with the Hennepin County Library system in 2008. [294] Minneapolis has 82 miles (132 km) of trails for walking and biking. [140] An 2011 addition by Gehry doubled the size of the galleries. About 10,000 such covenants remained as of 2017, in: Caputo, Angela, Craft, Will and Gilbert, Curtis (June 30, 2020). WCCO-TV is based in Minneapolis proper. Seven counties encompassing Minneapolis and its neighbor Saint Paul are known as the Twin Cities. [291], Walk Score rated Minneapolis as having the 13th highest Walk Score and the highest Bike Score among cities with more than 200,000 people in the US in 2020. 29,214 reviews. [189] Andrew Zimmern won in 2010, 2013 and 2017 for Outstanding Personality/Host on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and for his television program On Location in 2012. The ambassador program is a public-private partnership with a $6.6 million annual budget paid for by a special downtown tax district. [62] The city's lowest elevation of 687 feet (209 m) above sea level is near where Minnehaha Creek meets the Mississippi River. [214], The parks are governed and operated by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, an independent park district with broader powers than any other parks agency in the country. [23] Due to the occupational hazards of milling, six competitors manufactured artificial limbs by the 1890s. [250], Minneapolis Public Schools enroll over 35,000 students in public primary and secondary schools. Minneapolis, MN 55419. [159] An authentic musical prodigy enriched by a music program at The Way Community Center, Prince learned to operate a Polymoog at Sound 80 for his first album that became a sonic element of the Minneapolis sound. Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos came in the 1970s, Hmong, Lao, Cambodian and Vietnamese in the 1970s and 1980s, and people from Tibet, Burma and Thailand came in the 1990s and 2000s. [244], Police chief Medaria Arradondo was part of a $740,000 settlement after accusing the department of "a history of tolerating racist and discriminatory remarks by its white police officers. [221] The regional park received over 2,050,000 visitors in 2017. [61], A 1959 report by the U.S. The #1 Best Value of 94 places to stay in Minneapolis. [103] More than 50 denominations and religions have been established with a Christian majority. According to the NOAA, the annual average for sunshine duration is 58%. [219], Parks are interlinked in many places and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area connects regional parks and visitor centers. Wirth Park is shared with Golden Valley and is about 90% the size of Central Park in New York City. Agents of the St. Peters Indian Agency built at the fort enforced US policy of assimilating Native Americans into European-American society, asking them to give up hunting for subsistence and to learn to plow for cultivation. [27][28] Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray[29] and some say they were acquired through industrial espionage from Hungary by William de la Barre. [114] As of 2017, the 28,000 to 120,000 Somalis who live in the city are primarily Sunni Muslim. Paul–Bloomington MN–WI metropolitan area of 3.6 million, and twenty-two making up the combined statistical area of 4.0 million.[10]. While the standard of living is rising with incomes among the highest in the Midwest, in 2015 the median household income among minorities was below that of whites by over $17,000 and the poverty rate gap between blacks and whites was the highest in the US. [101] William D. Green of Augsburg said that in Minneapolis the races live in parallel universes. Both basketball teams play in the Target Center. This required large amounts of capital, which stimulated the local banking industry and made Minneapolis a major financial center. Paul were kept by the St. Paul Signal Service in that city from January 1871 to December 1890, the Minneapolis Weather Bureau from January 1891 to April 8, 1938, and at KMSP since April 9, 1938. Travel from hotel to store to restaurant via our miles of enclosed and connected skyways. [119], As of 2020, Minneapolis–St. The US Census Bureau estimates the population of Minneapolis to be 429,606 as of 2019, a 12.3 percent increase since the 2010 census. [252][253] Some students attend public schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesota's open enrollment statute. Established in 1883, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) oversees a renowned urban park system spanning 6,809 acres of parkland and water. [105] Edwin Hawley Hewitt designed both St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church just south of downtown. [214] Gaining criticism, the park board allocated more of its 2020–2021 budget to park police than to youth development. "[26] For this half century, Minneapolis led the world in flour milling. [183], As of 2019, Minneapolis-based chefs have won James Beard Foundation Awards: Ann Kim, chef at Young Joni, Pizza Lola and Hello Pizza, won in 2019. First timer’s guide to Minneapolis driving, parking and public transportation, Meet Minneapolis Visitor Center on Nicollet. [265] MSP Communications publishes Mpls.St.Paul and Twin Cities Business magazines. Beginning in the 1990s, a sizable Latino population arrived, along with immigrants from the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia,[93] however immigration of fourteen hundred Somalis in 2016, slowed to forty eight in 2018 under President Trump. Anchoring strong music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the Guthrie Theater and the First Avenue nightclub. Free Wifi. With one of the nation's best park systems,[11] the city is abundantly rich in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. [190] When thirteen chefs and restaurants were nominated for James Beard awards in 2017, The Wall Street Journal named Minneapolis one of the ten best places to visit in the world. [134] Along with supporting consumers and the community, the bank executes monetary policy, regulates the banks in its territory, provides cash, and oversees electronic deposits. With a commercial kitchen within the City of Minneapolis, and the [32], The city made changes to rectify discrimination as early as 1886 when Martha Ripley founded Maternity Hospital for both married and unmarried mothers. [303] Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Phillips Eye Institute also serve the city. [33] Known initially as a kindly physician, mayor Doc Ames made his brother police chief, ran the city into corruption, and tried to leave town in 1902. Canopy by Hilton Minneapolis Mill District. [110] Christ Church Lutheran in the Longfellow neighborhood, designed by Eliel Saarinen with an education building by his son Eero Saarinen, is a National Historic Landmark.