[230], The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon is a Boston qualifier. [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. [176] Catholic Charities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is one of the largest non-profit organizations in the state and a provider of several social services. [24] The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the city's thirty-four flour mills. [287] An extension of the Blue Line to the northwest suburbs reentered the planning stages for a new route alignment in 2020. #3 Best Value of 94 places to stay in Minneapolis. Established in 1883, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) oversees a renowned urban park system spanning 6,809 acres of parkland and water. [259], Founded by T. B. Walker in 1885,[260] the Minneapolis Public Library merged with the Hennepin County Library system in 2008. [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. Take a closer look at the buildings and roads at the University of Minnesota, which spans both sides of the Mississippi River. 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Show Prices. [130], As of 2020, the Minneapolis metropolitan area contributes $273 billion or 74% to the gross state product of Minnesota. [196] In 2018, Food & Wine named Spoon and Stable one of the 40 most important restaurants of the past 40 years. Minneapolis (/ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ (listen)) is the most populous city in the US state of Minnesota and the seat of Hennepin County. [146], The Guthrie Theater, the area's largest theater company, occupies a three-stage complex overlooking the Mississippi, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. [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. As is typical in a continental climate, the difference between average temperatures in the coldest winter month and the warmest summer month is great: 60.1 °F (33.4 °C). 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). [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. [55], The history and economic growth of Minneapolis are tied to water, the city's defining physical characteristic. Minneapolis (/ ˌ m ɪ n i ˈ æ p əl ɪ s / ()) is the most populous city in the US state of Minnesota and the seat of Hennepin County. The ambassador program is a public-private partnership with a $6.6 million annual budget paid for by a special downtown tax district. Working with surgeon C. Walton Lillehei, Medtronic began to build portable and implantable cardiac pacemakers about this time. [111], During the 1950s, members of the Nation of Islam created a temple in north Minneapolis,[112] and the first Muslim mosque was built in 1967. [317], This article is about the city in Minnesota. "[26] For this half century, Minneapolis led the world in flour milling. [198], Year-round events include the City of Lakes Loppet, a 22-mile (35 km) cross-country ski race and winter festival in February; the MayDay Parade is returning in 2021; Art-A-Whirl; Pride Festival & Parade, Stone Arch Bridge Festival, and Twin Cities Juneteenth Celebration in June; Minneapolis Aquatennial in July; Minnesota Fringe Festival, Loring Park Art Festival, Uptown Metris Art Fair, Powderhorn Festival of Arts and the Lake Hiawatha Neighborhood Festival in August; Minneapolis Monarch Festival in September to celebrate the Monarch butterfly's 2,300-mile (3,700 km) migration; and the Twin Cities Marathon in October.[199]. [209] In other sports, six golf courses are located within city limits. [139], The Weisman Art Museum, designed by Frank Gehry for the University of Minnesota, opened in 1993 and offers free admission. We've got all the parking ramps in downtown Minneapolis here. Official records for Minneapolis/St. [92] Black migrants were drawn to Minneapolis (and the Greater Twin Cities) by its abundance of jobs, good schools, and relatively safe neighborhoods. [302], Minneapolis has eight hospitals, four ranked among America's best by U.S. News & World Report in 2020–2021—Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Children's Hospitals and Clinics, University of Minnesota Medical Center, and University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. Paul area is the second largest economic center in the Midwest, behind Chicago. Some areas are known by nicknames of business associations. [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. The city's climate plan calls for an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. 1.888.676.MPLS, 505 Nicollet, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55402 [216] The city's Chain of Lakes, consisting of seven lakes and Minnehaha Creek, is connected by bike, running, and walking paths and used for swimming, fishing, picnics, boating, and ice skating. [103], The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was headquartered in Minneapolis from the late 1940s into the early 2000s. [35] The gangster Kid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation from the 1920s until the 1940s. [180][181] The non-profit Appetite for Change sought to improve the local diet against an influx of fast-food stores,[182] and by 2017 it administered ten gardens, sold produce at the West Broadway Farmers Market in summertime, supplied its restaurants, and gave away boxes of fresh produce. [131] Measured by gross metropolitan product per resident ($62,054), as of 2015, Minneapolis is the fifteenth richest city in the US. 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. [20] Residents had divergent ideas on names for their community. [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. [42][41], When the country's fortunes turned during the Great Depression, the violent Teamsters Strike of 1934 resulted in laws acknowledging workers' rights. [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. A map of the surrounding restaurants, entertainment and parking around the Convention Center. [113] In 1972 a relief agency resettled the first Shi'a Muslim family from Uganda in the Twin Cities. [235] Elected in 2013, Lisa Bender serves as president of the City Council and does not plan to seek reelection. [211], The Minneapolis park system has been called[d] the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America. [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. [58] The new waterfall, later called Saint Anthony Falls, in turn eroded up the Mississippi about eight miles (13 km) to its present location, carving the Mississippi River gorge as it moved upstream; Minnehaha Falls also developed during this period via similar processes. [282] In 1960s television, two episodes of Route 66 were made in Minneapolis. Soil Conservation Service listed Minneapolis's elevation as 830 feet (250 m). [101], The Dakota people, the original inhabitants of the area where Minneapolis now stands, believed in the Great Spirit and were surprised that not all European settlers were religious. There are 10 full-power television stations in the metro area, and one non-profit public access cable network. [232] The council is progressive with twelve DFL members and one from the Green Party. [30], A single mill at Washburn-Crosby could make flour for twelve million loaves of bread each day,[31] and by 1900, 14 percent of America's grain was milled in Minneapolis. Established in 1883, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) oversees a renowned urban park system spanning 6,809 acres of parkland and water. [290], In 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi, at the time overloaded with three hundred tons of repair materials, collapsed, killing thirteen and injuring 145 people. [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. [292] The Minneapolis Skyway System, 9.5 miles (15.3 km) of enclosed pedestrian bridges called skyways, link 80 city blocks downtown with second floor restaurants and retailers open weekdays. Special offer. [91] After the Rust Belt economy declined during the early 1980s, Minnesota's black population nearly tripled in less than two decades, a large fraction hailing from cities such as Chicago and Gary, Indiana. Called "Minnesota's biggest-ever public works project," the stadium opened in 2016 with 66,000 seats, expandable to 70,000 for the 2018 Super Bowl. [72][73][74] Minneapolis has cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers. [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. [67], In 2018, the Minneapolis City Council voted to end single-family zoning citywide. Find your way to one of the best airports in the nation. [228] The board park maintains 20 outdoor ice rinks in winter[229] and the city's Lake Nokomis is host to the annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championships. [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. 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. This map explores shopping, dining and entertainment in the North Loop. [304] The Mayo Clinic in Rochester is a 75-minute drive away. Migrant workers from Mexico and Latin America interspersed. 5500 Stevens Avenue. [293] Bicycling named Minneapolis the 4th best bicycling city in 2018. Did they? A parkway for cars, a bikeway for riders, and a walkway for pedestrians runs parallel along the 52-mile (84 km) route of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. [305], Cardiac surgery was developed at the university's Variety Club Hospital, where by 1957, more than two hundred patients had survived open-heart operations, many of them children. [13] French explorers arrived in the region in 1680. [32] When exports reached their peak in 1900, about one third of all flour milled in Minneapolis was shipped overseas. In 2011, new legislation was passed allowing trucks to park at city meters on designated streets, allowing the truck to get out and gain new fans. Though such language was prohibited by state law in 1953 and by the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, restrictive covenants against minorities remained in many Minneapolis deeds as recently as 2021, when the city gave residents a means to remove them. Minneapolis was historically a marketplace for timber, became the flour milling capital of the world,[12] and, to the present day, preserved its financial clout. [222] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow named Hiawatha's wife Minnehaha for the Minneapolis waterfall in The Song of Hiawatha, a bestselling and often-parodied 19th century poem. [223] The five-mile, hiking-only Winchell Trail along the Mississippi River, with its gorge views and access, offers a rustic hiking experience. [108] Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye met while attending the Pentecostal North Central University and began a television ministry that by the 1980s reached 13.5 million households. The district administers about one hundred public schools including forty-five elementary schools, seven middle schools, seven high schools, eight special education schools, eight alternative schools, nineteen contract alternative schools, and five charter schools. [100] Kirsten Delegard of Mapping Prejudice explained that disparities today evolved from white people asserting control of the city's land. For other uses, see, "City of Lakes", "Mill City", "Twin Cities" (a nickname shared with, 55401–55488 (range includes some ZIP Codes for Minneapolis suburbs), Terrence Floyd at memorial to his brother, Aftermath of George Floyd's death, May 29, 2020 (5 mins), ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties, E. K. Soper, writing in 1915 before Minneapolis had reached its present size, described "several points which attain an altitude of 965 feet [294 m], or thereabouts" near the border with. Millers have used hydropower since the 1st century B.C.,[25] but the results in Minneapolis between 1880 and 1930 were described as "the greatest direct-drive waterpower center the world has ever seen. 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This map shows the sports venues, bars, restaurants and parking in this hub for fun. [46][47] A coalition was able to reach a peaceful aftermath but ultimately failed to solve black poverty and unemployment, and a law and order candidate became mayor.
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