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    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.

 

 

 

 

 

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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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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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Green Bay Population: 107,395 Green Bay is a city and the county seat of Brown County. Trivia: Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France, commissioned Jean Nicolet to form a peaceful alliance with Native Americans in the western areas, whose unrest interfered with French fur trade, and to search for a shorter trade route to China through Canada. Nicolet and others had learned from other First Nations of the Ho-Chunk people, who identified as "People of the Sea", and believed they must...
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Willard Population: 539 Willard is an unincorporated community located in the town of Hendren, Clark County. Trivia: The post office at Willard, and in turn the settlement itself, was named after Willard Foster (1876–1945), the youngest son of Nathaniel Caldwell Foster (1834–1923). Foster established the Foster Lumber Company in Fairchild, Wisconsin, and the company founded Willard in 1911. Wisconsin Rapids Population: 54362 Wisconsin Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Wood...
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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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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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Northwest Wisconsin: Population 60,483 Ashland Population: 8216 Ashland is a city in Ashland and Bayfield counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is the county seat of Ashland County. The city is a port on Lake Superior, near the head of Chequamegon Bay. The unpopulated Bayfield County portion is in the city's southwest, bordered by the easternmost part of the Town of Eileen. Trivia: During the last year of World War I, from March-October 1918, six recorded incidents of vigilantism took place in the...
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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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Wausau Population: 38735 Wausau is a city in and the county seat of Marathon County. Trivia: Nearly one-third of the Marathon County economy is based in manufacturing, with the balance in the service industry. Prominent industries include paper manufacturing, insurance, home manu-facturing, and tourism. The Wausau region has a lower than average unemployment rate and continues a steady growth in job creation and economic viability among manufacturers and service providers alike. Wausau has 12 banks...
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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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Jacksonport Population: 714 Jacksonport is a town in Door County. Trivia: At what is now Jacksonport was once a Potawatomi village called Medemoya-Seebe, or "old woman's creek". Kaukauna Population: 15462 Kaukauna is a city in Outagamie and Calumet counties. Trivia: Kaukauna cheese, once made in the city, is now manufactured by the Bel/Kaukauna corporation in the neighboring village of Little Chute. Keshena Population: 1262 Keshena is a census-designated place...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Central Wisconsin Part 2 Beloit Population: 36836 Beloit is a city in Rock County. Trivia: Robin Wayne Zander of Cheap Trick Berlin Population: 5524 Berlin is a city in Green Lake and Waushara counties, Trivia: In 1845, Nathan H. Strong (1813–1852) became the first resident of what is today Berlin. He was joined by Hugh G. Martin, Hiram Barnes, and William Dickey. Their settlement was known as Strong's Landing. In 1848 a post office was...
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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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Elcho Population: 1233 Elcho is a town in Langlade County. Trivia: Elcho was named after a place in Scotland. Elderon Population: 179 Elderon is a village in Marathon County. Trivia: The village was named for a grove of elder trees near the town site. Gilman Population: 410 Gilman is a village in Taylor County. Trivia: The historic Gilman swinging bridge is a landmark of the community. Hawkins Population: 305 Hawkins is a village in Rusk County. Trivia: The community was most likely named...
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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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North Central Wisconsin Population: 26285 Apostle Islands Population: 246 The Apostle Islands are a group of 22 islands in Lake Superior, off the Bayfield Peninsula. Trivia: On and around these islands, the Ojibwa people discovered and innovated agricultural advancements, including excavating copper deposits and creating specialized tools for agriculture, hunting and fishing, the use of canoes in rice harvesting, conjugal collaborative farming, and the Three Sisters Crop Complex, enabling the Ojibwa to...
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