[18] The US government pressed the Dakota to sell their land which was ceded in a succession of treaties. [316] Ordinances govern parking on the plowing routes during these emergencies as well as snow shoveling. The incident sparked national unrest, riots, and mass protests. [150][151], The Minnesota Orchestra plays classical and popular music at Orchestra Hall under music director Osmo Vänskä[154] The orchestra was nominated in 2013 for its recording of "Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. [68] The Brookings Institution called it "a relatively rare example of success for the YIMBY agenda."[69]. [193] Young Joni was selected one of the GQ top ten new restaurants and one of Eater's twelve best new restaurants of 2017. [109] As of 2012, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in southwest Minneapolis was the nation's second-largest Lutheran congregation, with about 6,000 attendees. [52] Local protests and riots resulted in extraordinary levels of property damage in Minneapolis,[53] including of a police station that was overrun by demonstrators and set on fire. [21] Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867 and later joined with the east-bank city of St. Anthony in 1872. "[245] Body cameras were introduced in 2016 by former chief Janée Harteau but they were rarely used. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized Minneapolis as a town in 1856, on the Mississippi's west bank. [264], Several newspapers are published in Minneapolis: Star Tribune, Finance & Commerce, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the university's The Minnesota Daily, and MinnPost.com. [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. [171] Minneapolis has four opera companies: Minnesota Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company, and Really Spicy Opera. [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. "I Wish Those Cats @ Fobia Would Give Me Some Free Shoes" and "Sep Seven Game Show Them" and "7th St. This map shows the sports venues, bars, restaurants and parking in this hub for fun. [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. Artist Features; The Call; In Studio Magazine; Contact Us. Don't have a bike? 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[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. The city's Dakota name is Bdeóta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes City'). [261] The new downtown Central Library designed by César Pelli opened in 2006. A map of the surrounding suburbs that make up the city of Minneapolis. The Metro Blue Line connects the Mall of America and Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Bloomington to downtown and the Metro Green Line travels east from downtown through the University of Minnesota campus to downtown Saint Paul. 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. [7] With an estimated population of 429,606 as of 2019, it is the 46th most populous city in the US. [219], Parks are interlinked in many places and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area connects regional parks and visitor centers. Two large principally online universities, Capella University and Walden University, are both headquartered in the city. You can rent one at an extremely affordable price from the many Nice Ride stations across Minneapolis. [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. 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. The #1 Best Value of 94 places to stay in Minneapolis. Minneapolis, MN 55409. [293] Bicycling named Minneapolis the 4th best bicycling city in 2018. [44] In the 1950s, less than 2 percent of the population was nonwhite. 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. 4Marq is a 30-story, 261-unit luxury high rise community located in Minneapolis' downtown central business district. This required large amounts of capital, which stimulated the local banking industry and made Minneapolis a major financial center. In 1852, the city's first schoolmaster, Charles Hoag, proposed Minnehapolis, with a silent h, combining the Dakota word for "waterfall", Mníȟaȟa,[13] and the Greek word for "city", polis, which became Minneapolis, meaning 'city of the falls'. [263] About 845,000 people have free library cards. Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e., the highest and lowest temperature readings during an entire month or year) calculated based on data at said location from 1981 to 2010. [75], Minneapolis experiences a full range of precipitation and related weather events, including snow, sleet, ice, rain, thunderstorms, and fog. 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. Up to 79 FM and AM signals can be received in one or more areas of the city. [179] Wirth Co-op since opened in 2017 but closed within a year. In some cases two or more neighborhoods act together under one organization. [312], "Ambassadors," identified by their blue and fluorescent green-yellow jackets, patrol daily a 120-block area downtown to greet and assist visitors, remove trash, monitor property, and call police when they are needed. [105] Edwin Hawley Hewitt designed both St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church just south of downtown. The US reneged on the treaties during the Civil War, resulting in hunger, war, internment, and exile of the Dakota from Minnesota. [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. [197] As of 2019, chefs and bakers at eight of nine Kim Bartmann Minneapolis restaurants used heritage grains from Sunrise Four Mill. [234] The office of mayor is relatively weak but has some power to appoint individuals such as the chief of police. [103] The oldest continuously used church, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, was built in 1856 by Universalists and soon afterward was acquired by a French Catholic congregation. With a commercial kitchen within the City of Minneapolis, and the [94] In 2015, Brookings characterized Minneapolis as a re-emerging immigrant gateway with about 10 percent foreign-born residents. [13] French explorers arrived in the region in 1680. Located in between Downtown Minneapolis and the historic Mill District, Latitude 45 offers an exceptional living experience in Minneapolis' most desired locale. [232] The council is progressive with twelve DFL members and one from the Green Party. No trip to Minneapolis is complete unless you bike our miles of urban and scenic trails. Local Transportation. [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. [131] Measured by gross metropolitan product per resident ($62,054), as of 2015, Minneapolis is the fifteenth richest city in the US. [35] The gangster Kid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation from the 1920s until the 1940s. WCCO-TV is based in Minneapolis proper. [164] The MN Spoken Word Association and independent hip hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment have garnered attention for rap, hip hop and spoken word. [32], The city made changes to rectify discrimination as early as 1886 when Martha Ripley founded Maternity Hospital for both married and unmarried mothers. Copied by other developers, the practice prevented Asian and African Americans from owning or leasing certain properties. [257] The graduate school programs with exceptional national rankings in 2020 (top five) were health care management, nursing: midwifery, pharmacy and clinical psychology. [295] Off-street facilities include the Grand Rounds, Midtown Greenway, Little Earth Trail, Hiawatha LRT Trail, Kenilworth Trail, and Cedar Lake Trail. 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. [246] The police union viewpoint protects officers with a legal doctrine of qualified immunity. 29,214 reviews. [28] Charles A. Pillsbury and the C.A. [265] MSP Communications publishes Mpls.St.Paul and Twin Cities Business magazines. [60] Water supply is managed by four watershed districts that correspond to the Mississippi and the city's three creeks. [304] The Mayo Clinic in Rochester is a 75-minute drive away. See them all in this handy map. Green Line Find out about the Green Line light rail. [28] Not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that "...Minneapolis flour millers routinely dumped" into the Mississippi. [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. Travel from hotel to store to restaurant via our miles of enclosed and connected skyways. [209] In other sports, six golf courses are located within city limits. [285][286] An extension of the Green Line will connect downtown Minneapolis with the southwestern suburbs and is expected to open in 2023. [143], Minneapolis has hosted theatrical performances since after the Civil War. 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%. Official records for Minneapolis/St. The Vikings played in the Super Bowl following the 1969, 1973, 1974, and 1976 seasons, losing all four games. [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. [40], From the end of World War I until 1950, Minneapolis was a site of corrosive anti-semitism. [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. Enga-White-Gleason Funeral Chapels. [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. [22], Minneapolis developed around the power source of Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River. [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. [174] The Minneapolis Foundation invests and administers over 1,000 charitable funds. 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. [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. Restaurant.