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About this City Journal

    My name is Yon Yonson,
    I come from Wisconsin
    I work in a lumber mill there
    All the people I meet
    As I walk down the street
    Ask me how in the hell I got there
    So I tell them: My name is Yon Yonson...

      - Unknown

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What do you get when you put a whole lotta cheese, vats of beer, BBQ'ed bratwurst, Harry Houdini, loads of lumber, ornery badgers, real Nazis, and neo-Nazis, butter-fried everything, Orson Welles, buckets of sauerkraut, polka bands, 2 notorious cannibals, herds of cows, suicidal fish, Liberace, German, French, Scandinavian and Belgian nationalities, 4 Superbowl wins, a so-so baseball team, amazing landscapes, an anti-Communist Senator, riots and protests, a decent basketball team, Heather Graham, 4 sit-coms, Oktoberfest, lederhosen, Harley-Davidson, vineyards, heavy machinery and tools, native Americans, toilet paper, casinos, Slendermen, cranberries, farms, Willem Dafoe, mountaintop cathedrals and....snow

lots and lots of snow...

all in one state? You get Wisconsin. Presenting a SimCity4 travel tour of 360 of it's biggest(sorta) cities in 9 seperate regions. Enjoy.

 


Capital: Madison
Population (2020) 5,893,718
Admitted to the Union    May 29, 1848 (30th)


  Wisconsin is a state in the upper Midwestern United States, bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin is the 23rd-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous.

Milwaukee, its largest city, sits on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The state capital, Madison, is currently the second most populated and fastest growing city in the state. Green Bay and Kenosha, the third and fourth most populated Wisconsin cities respectively, also sit on  the western shores of Lake Michigan. The state is divided into 72 counties.

Wisconsin's geography is diverse, having been greatly impacted by glaciers during the Ice Age with the exception of the Driftless Area. The Northern Highland and Western Upland along with a part of the Central Plain occupies the western part of the state, with lowlands stretching to the shore of Lake Michigan. Wisconsin is third to Ontario and Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline.

At the time of European contact, the area that is now Wisconsin was inhabited by Algonquian and Siouan nations. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, many European settlers entered the state, many of whom emigrated from Germany and Scandinavia. Like neighboring Minnesota, the state remains a center of German American and Scandinavian American culture. The state is one of the nation's leading dairy producers and is known as "America's Dairyland" It is particularly famous for its cheese. The state is also famous for its beer, particularly and historically in Milwaukee. Manufacturing (especially paper products), information technology, cranberries, ginseng, and tourism are also major contributors to the state's economy.

 

 

 

 

 

Entries in this City Journal

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Fiserv Forum/Bucks Auditorium Allen-Bradley The Allen-Bradley Clock Tower, owned by Allen-Bradley, a product brand of Rockwell Automation, has long been a landmark in Milwaukee. According to the Guinness Book of World Records: "The largest four-faced clock is that on the research and office addition of the Allen-Bradley Company. Each face has a diameter of 40 feet, 3-1/2 inches. Dedicated on October 31, 1962, it rises 280 feet from the streets of Milwaukee, and requires 34.6 kilowatts of electricity for...
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Milwaukee Population: 594548 Milwaukee is a city and the county seat of Milwaukee County. Trivia: Milwaukee is the 31st most populous city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwest, and the largest city in the state of Wisconsin. It is the central city of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the 40th most populous metropolitan area in the United States. Its history was heavily influenced by German immigrants in the 19th century, and it...
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West Allis Population: 60411 West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County. Trivia: The name West Allis derives from Edward P. Allis, whose Edward P. Allis Company was a large Milwaukee-area manufacturing firm in the late 19th century. In 1901, the Allis company became Allis-Chalmers, and in 1902 built a large new manufacturing plant west of its existing plant. The locale in which the new plant was constructed was at the time called North Greenfield, and prior...
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Watertown Population: 23861 Watertown is a city in Dodge and Jefferson counties. Trivia: There was an influx of German immigrants in the late 19th century. The city is the home of the first kindergarten in the United States, started in 1856 by Margarethe Schurz, wife of statesman Carl Schurz; the building that housed this kindergarten is now located on the grounds of the Octagon House Museum in Watertown. Waukesha ...
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Slinger Population: 5068 Slinger (formerly Schleisingerville) is a village in Washington County. Trivia: Slinger is known as the "village of seven hills" as it rests in the heart of the Kettle Moraine. Sturtevant Population: 6970 Sturtevant is a village in Racine County. Trivia: The 300-bed Wisconsin Department of Corrections Sturtevant Transitional Facility (STF), designed to provide offender...
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Random Lake Population: 1646 Random Lake is a village in Sheboygan County. Trivia: It is part of the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ripon Population: 7233 Ripon is a city in Fond du Lac County. Trivia: The February 1854 meeting was the first political meeting of the group that would become the Republican Party. The modern Ripon Society, a Republican think tank, takes its name from...
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Pewaukee Population: 13195 Pewaukee is a city in Waukesha County. Trivia: The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) constructed a railroad line through Pewaukee in 1855, followed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad in 1885. These railroads ran through the neighborhood of Duplainville, Wisconsin. Today, these lines are operated by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway respectively. Pleasant Prairie ...
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Muskego Population: 24135 Muskego is a city in Waukesha County. Trivia: Charles Rose, operator of Wisconsin State Fair Park purchased Muskego Beach Amusement Park from Mrs. William Boszhardt in 1944. After World War II, he reopened it. The park included rides, games of chance, and was a venue for musical bands. Charles Rose died in 1963 and five years later, Willard Masterson purchased the park. He renamed it "DandiLion Park" and added more amusement rides,...
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Lake Geneva Population: 7894 Lake Geneva is a city in Walworth County. Trivia: In 1968, Hugh Hefner built his first Playboy resort in Lake Geneva. It closed in 1981 and was converted in 1982 to the Americana Resort, and in 1993 to the Grand Geneva Resort. Mayville Population: 5154 Mayville is a city in Dodge County. Trivia: Mayville was identified in an episode of the television series "Leave It to Beaver" as...
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Juneau Population: 2814 Juneau is a city in Dodge County Trivia: The city itself claims to be named for Paul Juneau, Solomon Juneau's part-Menominee son, a businessman and state legislator who made his home in the city and served as county register of deeds until his accidental shooting death outside the courthouse in Juneau in 1858. Kenosha Population: 99688 Kenosha is a city in and the seat of Kenosha County....
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Holy Hill National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians Population: ? Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians is a Roman Catholic shrine in the north central United States, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Trivia: Tradition says that the hill was first discovered by Europeans 350 years ago in 1673 by Father Jacques Marquette with Louis Jolliet. However, modern historians view this tradition as untrue, though Jesuits were likely the...
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Genoa City Population: 3036 Genoa City is a village located in Kenosha and Walworth counties. Trivia: The television soap opera The Young and the Restless is set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City, Wisconsin, in which the city is portrayed as a metropolis. Germantown Population: 19749 Germantown is a village in Washington County. Trivia: From July 1944 until January 1946, the hamlet of Rockfield in...
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Elkhart Lake Population: 967 Elkhart Lake is a village in Sheboygan County. Trivia: Racing at Elkhart Lake dates back to the 1950s. The very first races were held on July 23, 1950 on a 3.35 mile road circuit north of the lake. These first races were very successful for the time, drawing a crowd of over 5,000. Races were originally held on a street circuit that ran around the Lake with the start/finish line in the village. In 1951 and 1952, races were held on a...
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Campbellsport Population: 2016 Campbellsport is a village in Fond du Lac County. Trivia: The village was named after Stuart Campbell, an early settler. Cedarburg Population: 11412 Cedarburg is a city in Ozaukee County. Trivia: As is the case in many of the cities and villages in Ozaukee County, Cedarburg's earliest businesses were hydropowered mills. In 1843, Frederick Luening built the Columbia Mill, a gristmill,...
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South East Wisconsin

Population: 1646986 Beaver Dam Population: 16214 Beaver Dam is a city in Dodge County. Trivia: Ric Flair, wrestler Belgium Population: 2245 Belgium is a village in Ozaukee County. Trivia: Northern Ozaukee County — including the Belgium community — was a center of Luxembourgian-American settlement in the United States in the 19th century, and the Village of Belgium continues to have strong cultural ties to the Grand...
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Madison Population: 254977 Madison is the county seat of Dane County and the state capital city. Trivia: Before Europeans, humans inhabited the area in and around Madison for about 12,000 years. In 1800, the Madison area was Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Country. The Native Americans called this place Taychopera (Ta-ko-per-ah), meaning "land of the four lakes" (Mendota, Monona, Waubesa, and Kegonsa). Effigy mounds, which had been constructed for ceremonial and burial...
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Wilton Population: 504 Wilton is a village in Monroe County. Wisconsin Dells Population: 2841 Wisconsin Dells is a city in Wisconsin, straddling four counties: Adams, Columbia, Juneau, and Sauk. Trivia: The city of Wisconsin Dells was founded in 1856 by the Wisconsin Hydraulic Company, a dam-building and real estate investment business. The town was originally named Kilbourn City for Byron Kilbourn, the president of the...
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Union Center Population: 211 Union Center is a village in Juneau County. Trivia: Originally called Union, the village was named for the federal union of the United States. Verona Population: 10620 Verona is a city in Dane County. Trivia: Verona used to be home to the Dane County Insane Asylum which opened in 1882, closed in 1973, and was demolished in 2006. It was previously a poor farm for people who needed care due to old...
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Shullsburg Population: 1226 Shullsburg is a city in Lafayette County. Trivia: Shullsburg was founded during the 1820s in parts by Jason Shull and Henry Gratiot and due to their ventures into lead mining. Following the Black Hawk War conflict Gratiot and other small settlements consolidated into Shullsburg. In 1841 Missionary Priest Samuel Mazzuchelli platted the Northeast section of town and named the streets after the virtues of life. Spring Green ...
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Reedsburg Population: 9508 Reedsburg is a city in Sauk County. Trivia: Agnes Moorehead, actress Richland Center Population: 5184 Richland Center is a city in Richland County. Trivia: Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center in 1867. The A. D. German Warehouse, completed in 1921, is the only building designed by Wright in Richland Center and is an early representation of his Mayan Revival style. Svetlana Alliluyeva, only...
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Poynette Population: 2528 Poynette is a village in Columbia County. Trivia: Poynette was named after Pierre Paquette (1796–1836), an early fur trader and settler of south central Wisconsin. When an application was made for a post office in the settlement, Paquette's name was misread as Poynette, and the post office was mistakenly named "Poynette" Prairie du Sac Population: 3972 Prairie du Sac is a village in Sauk County. Trivia:...
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Oxford Population: 607 Oxford is a village in Marquette County. Trivia: The nearby Oxford Federal Correctional Institution is located on Hwy G. Pardeeville Population: 2115 Pardeeville is a village in Columbia County. Trivia: The Fox River begins as a small stream northeast of Pardeeville. It is dammed in Pardeeville to create Park Lake. Platteville Population: 11224 Platteville is the largest...
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Muscoda Population: 1299 Muscoda is a village in Grant and Iowa counties. Trivia: Muscoda has billed itself as the "Wisconsin's Morel Capital" since 1982 and hosts the "Morel Mushroom Festival" every year on the weekend following Mother's Day. The event includes carnival rides, tractors pulls, tournaments, merchant stands, food booths, and portable tattoo parlors. New Glarus Population: 2172 New Glarus is a village in Green County....
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