Madison is the capital of the state of Wisconsin in the US and a place in Dane County. As of July 1, 2016, it is estimated that Madison 252,551 population makes it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the Metropolitan Madison Metropolitan Area Statistics Bureau, which includes Dane County and neighboring countries in Iowa, Green, and Columbia. Metropolitan Metropolitan Madison's population population in 2010 was 568,593.
Founded in 1829 on a landmark between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, Madison was named the capital of the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and became the capital of the state of Wisconsin when it was accepted at the Union in 1848. That same year, the University of Wisconsin was established at Madison and state and university governments have become the two largest companies in the city. The city is also famous for its lakes, restaurants, and extensive network of parks and bike paths, with many park systems designed by John Nolen landscape architect.
Since the 1960s, Madison has been a center of political liberalism, in part influenced by the presence of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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History
The origin of Madison began in 1829, when former federal judge James Duane Doty bought over a thousand hectares (4a, km²) of swamps and forest land on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Monona, aiming to build a town in the Four Lakes region. He bought 1,261 hectares for $ 1,500. When the Wisconsin Territory was formed in 1836, the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, Wisconsin. One of the legislative tasks is to choose a permanent location for the regional capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as a new capital, offering buffalo robes to frozen legislators and promising many of Madison's options at a discounted rate for undecided voters. He has a James Slaughter plat two towns in the area, Madison and "The Four Lakes City", near Middleton right now.
Doty named the city of Madison to James Madison, the fourth US President who died on June 28, 1836, and he named the way for 39 other US Constitution signers. Although the city is only on paper, the territorial legislature voted on 28 November to support Madison as its capital, largely because of its location between new and developing cities around Milwaukee in the east and the long-established strategic post Prairie du Chien in the west, and among the heavily populated tin mining areas in the city's oldest southwest and Wisconsin, Green Bay, to the northeast. Named for the highly admired founding father, James Madison, who recently died, and the streets named for each of the 39 signatories of the Constitution, may also help to appeal to the vote.
Creation and expansion
The foundation for the Wisconsin capital was put in 1837, and the legislature first met there in 1838. On October 9, 1839, Kintzing Prichett registered the Madison plate at the Dane County registry office at that time. Madison was founded as a village in 1846, with a population of 626. When Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year became the site of the University of Wisconsin (now the University of Wisconsin-Madison). The Milwaukee & amp; The Mississippi Railroad (precursor of Milwaukee Road) was connected to Madison in 1854. Madison was incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving unrelated remains as separate Madison City. The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the second House of Representatives burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917.
During the Civil War, Madison served as the Union Army center in Wisconsin. The intersections of Milwaukee, East Washington, Winnebago, and North Streets are known as Union Corners, because a tavern is the last stop for the Union army before heading to fight the Confederacy. Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a training camp, a military hospital, and a prison camp for the captured Confederate army. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin and Camp Randall Stadium was built there in 1917. In 2004 the last remnants of active military training on the site were removed when the stadium renovation replaced the range of shoots used for the ROTC Training.
The city of Madison continued the annexation of Madison City almost from the date of the merger of the city, leaving behind the last collection of unrelated areas to be the subject of annexation. After continuing controversy and efforts in the state legislature to simply abolish the city, an agreement was reached in 2003 to provide the incorporation of the remaining part of the City to the City of Madison and the City of Fitchburg on 30 October, 2022. Site
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Geography
Madison is located in central Dane County in south-central Wisconsin, 77 miles (124 km) west of Milwaukee and 122 miles (196 km) northwest of Chicago. The city is completely encircled the smaller Madison City, Monona City, and the villages of Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills. Madison is bordered by its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland, and Fitchburg. The city limits also approach the city of Verona and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee.
According to the US Census Bureau, the city has an area of ​​94.03 square miles (243.54 km 2 ), where 76.79 square miles (198.89 km 2 ) is the mainland and 17.24 square miles (44.65 km 2 ) is water.
The city is sometimes described as the Four Lake City, consisting of four consecutive lakes of Yahara River: Mendota Lake ("Fourth Lake"), Lake Monona ("Lake Third"), Lake Waubesa ("Lake Second ") and Lake Kegonsa (" First Lake "), though Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but only to the south. The fifth small lake, Lake Wingra, is inside the city as well; it is connected to the Yahara River chain by Wingra Creek. Yahara River flows into the Rock River, which flows into the Mississippi River. Downtown Madison is located on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Monona. The city trademark "Lake, City, Lake" reflects this geography.
Local identities vary throughout Madison, with more than 120 officially recognized environmental associations. The environment in and near the eastern part of the isthmus, some of the oldest cities, has the most powerful and politically liberal identity. Historically, the north, east and south sides are blue collar while the western side is a white collar, and to some extent this remains true. Students dominate on the campus of University of Wisconsin and east to downtown, while to the south and at Shorewood Hills in the west, faculty have been a major presence since the environment was originally developed. The turning point in Madison's development was the 1954 decision of the university to develop its experimental farm in the western end of town; since then, the city has grown substantially along suburban lines.
Climate
Madison, along with other states, has a humid continental climate (KÃÆ'¶ppen: Dfb/Dfa ), characterized by variable weather patterns and large seasonal temperature variances: winter temperatures can be well below freezing , with moderate to severe snowfall and temperatures reaching 0 ° F (-18 ° C) at 17 nights each year; high summer temperatures average below 80 ° F (27-28 ° C), reaching 90 ° F (32 ° C) an average of 12 days per year, with lower humidity levels than winter but higher than spring. Summer accounts for more annual rain, but winter is still experiencing significant precipitation.
Demographics
In 2000 the average income for households in the city was $ 41,941, and the average income for families was $ 59,840. Men have an average income of $ 36,718 compared to $ 30,551 for women. The per capita income for the city is $ 23,498. About 5.8% of families and 15.0% of the population are below the poverty line, including 11.4% of those under the age of 18 and 4.5% of those aged 65 and older.
census 2010
At the 2010 census, there were 233,209 people, 102,516 households, and 47,824 families living in the city. Population density is 3,037.0 residents per square mile (1,172.6/km 2 ). There are 108,843 housing units with an average density of 1,417.4 per square mile (547.3/km 2 ). City's racial makeup is 78.9% White, 7.3% African American, 0.4% Native Americans, 7.4% Asian, 2.9% of other races, and 3.1% of two or more races. Hispanic or Latin of any race is 6.8% of the population.
There are 102,516 households where 22.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.1% are married couples living together, 8.4% have unmarried female households, 3.2% have a man house-owners without a wife, and 53.3% are not family. 36.2% of all households consist of individuals and 7.5% have someone living alone 65 or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.87.
The average age in the city is 30.9 years. 17.5% of the population is under 18 years of age; 19.6% between the ages of 18 and 24; 31.4% are from 25 to 44; 21.9% is from 45 to 64; and 9.6% are 65 years old or older. The city gender makeup is 49.2% male and 50.8% female.
Combined Region Statistics
Madison is the larger main city of Madison-Janesville-Beloit, WI CSA, the Combined Statistical Area covering the metropolitan areas of Madison (Columbia, Dane, County Green and Iowa), the Janesville-Beloit (Rock County) metropolitan area, and the Baraboo Micropolitan area (Sauk County). On July 1, 2016, MSA Madison had an estimated population of 648,929 and Madison CSA had an estimated population of 874,498.
Religion
Madison is episcopal for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Madison. The Cathedral of Saint Raphael, which was destroyed by arson in 2005 and destroyed in 2008, is the parish church in the diocese. The towers and towers are safe and have been preserved with the intent that they can be incorporated in a replacement building structure.
The third largest US Universalist Unitarian Congregation, the First Unitarian Association in Madison, made his home in the historic Unitarian House Meeting, designed by one of its members, Frank Lloyd Wright.
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA has its headquarters in Madison. Most American Christian movements are represented in the city, including mainline denominations, evangelical churches, charismatic and fully independent, including LDS stock. The city also has several Sikhism temples, Hindu temples, three mosques and several synagogues, a community center Bahá, a Quaker Meeting Building, and a congregation of Unity Churches.
Economy
The Wisconsin state government and the University of Wisconsin-Madison remain the two largest Madison companies. However, Madison's current economy evolves from a government-led economy to consumer services and a high-tech base, especially in the health, biotechnology and advertising sectors. Beginning in the early 1990s, the city experienced a steady economic boom and was less affected by the recession than any other region of the country. Much of the expansion has taken place on the southern and western sides of the city, but it also affects the eastern side near the interstate intersection 39-90-94 and along the northern shore of Lake Mendota. Underlying the boom is a high-tech development company, widely built by UW-Madison working with local businesses and entrepreneurs to transfer academic research results into real-world applications, especially bio-tech applications.
Many businesses are drawn to Madison's skill base, taking advantage of the higher education level in the area. 48.2% of the Madison population over the age of 25 holds at least a bachelor's degree. Forbes Magazine reported in 2004 that Madison had the highest percentage of individuals holding PhDs in the United States. In 2006, the same magazine mentioned Madison as number 31 in the top 200 metro areas for "The Best Place for Business and Career". Madison has also been named in the Forbes' top ten Cities several times in the past decade. In 2009, in the midst of the late 2000s recession, Madison had a 3.5% unemployment rate and was ranked number one in the "ten cities for job growth" list.
Business
Madison's largest employer is the Wisconsin state government, excluding employees of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics employees, although both groups of workers are state employees.
The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics is an important regional education hospital and a regional trauma center, with strengths in the treatment of transplantation, oncology, indigestion, and endocrinology. Other Madison hospitals include St. Hospital Mary, Meritia Hospital, and VA Medical Center.
Madison is home to companies such as Spectrum Brands (formerly Rayovac), Alliant Energy, Credit Union National Association (CUNA), MGE Energy, Aprilaire, and Sub-Zero & amp; Wolves Tool. Insurance companies based in Madison include American Family Insurance, CUNA Mutual Group, and National Guardian Life.
Technology companies in Madison include Google, Microsoft, Broadjam, CDW regional offices, Full Compass Systems, Raven Software, and TDS Telecom. Biotech companies include Panvera (now part of Invitrogen). The contract research organization, Covance, is a big company in the city. Madison's Madison's hackerspaces/makerspaces are Sector67, which serves inventors and entrepreneurs, and The Bodgery, which caters to fans, artists and tinkerers. Epic Systems was based in Madison from 1979 to 2005, when it moved to a larger campus near Verona. Other companies include Nordic, Forward Health, and Forte Research Systems.
Oscar Mayer is a Madison fixture for several decades, and was a family business for many years before being sold to Kraft Foods. The Onion satirical newspaper, as well as the pizza chain Rocky Rococo and Pizza Nickel Pizza Company, are from Madison.
Culture
In 1996, Money magazine identified Madison as the best place to live in the United States. It has consistently ranked at the top of the list of best places in the following years, with the city's low unemployment rate being a major contributor.
The main downtown road is State Street, which connects the University of Wisconsin campus with Capitol Square, and is filled with restaurants, espresso cafes and shops. Only pedestrians, buses, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles and bicycles are allowed on State Street.
On Saturday morning in the summer, Dane County Farmers Market is held around Capitol Square, the country's largest producer farmer market. This market attracts many vendors selling fresh produce, meats, cheeses, and other products. On Wednesday night, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra held a free concert on the grounds of the Parliament building.
The Great Taste of the Midwest craft beer festival, founded in 1987 and the second longest running event in North America, was held the second Saturday in August. The highly coveted tickets were sold out within an hour for sale in May.
Madison hosts Rhythm and Booms, a great musical celebration of fireworks. It started with a fly-over by the F-16 from the local National Water Wisconsin Guard. This celebration is the largest fireworks show in the Midwest at length, the number of bullets fired, and the size of its annual budget. Effective 2015, the location of the event was changed to downtown and renamed Shake The Lake.
During the winter months, sports fans enjoy ice-boating, ice skating, ice hockey, ice fishing, cross-country skiing and snowkiting. For the rest of the year, outdoor recreation includes sailing on local lakes, biking, and hiking.
Madison was named the No. 1 sports college town by Sports Illustrated in 2003. In 2004 was named the healthiest city in America by the Men's Journal magazine. Many of Madison's main streets have set bike lanes and the city has one of the most extensive bicycle trail systems in the country.
There are many cooperative organizations in the Madison area, ranging from grocery stores (such as Willy Street Cooperatives) to housing cooperatives (such as Madison Community Cooperative and Nottingham Housing Cooperative) to worker cooperatives (including engineering companies, wholesale organic bread and taxi companies).
In 2005, Madison was included in the book Gregory A. Kompes, 50 Great Gay-Friendly Place for Life . The Madison metro area has a higher percentage of gay couples than other cities in areas outside of Chicago and Minneapolis.
Among the fairs and celebrations of the city are two student-driven big gatherings, Mifflin Street Block Party and State Street Halloween Party. The riots and vandalism at the State Street meeting in 2004 and 2005 caused the city to institutionalize additional costs for the 2006 celebrations. In an effort to provide more structural events and to eliminate vandalism, cities and student organizations worked together to schedule performances by the band, and to organize activities. The event is called "Freakfest on State Street." Events like this have helped contribute to the city's "Madtown" nickname.
In 2009, Madison Common Council chose the name of pink plastic flamingo as an official city bird.
Also in 2009, Madison was ranked 2nd in the list of Newsmax magazines from "25 Most Unique City and Big Town", an article written by CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg.
Every April, the Wisconsin Film Festival is held in Madison. This five-day event features films from different genres featured in theaters throughout the city. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute is sponsoring the Film Festival.
Music
The vibrant musical scene in Madison spans the broad spectrum of musical culture.
Some places offer live music every night, spreading from the historic Barrymore Theater and the High Noon Saloon on the east side to a small coffee shop and wine bar. The biggest headliners usually perform at the Orpheum Theater, Overture Center, Breese Stevens Field, Alliant Energy Center, or UW Theater on campus. Other popular rock and pop spots include the Majestic Theater and Frequency. During the summer, Memorial Union Terrace on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, offers live music five nights a week. The Union is situated on the shores of Lake Mendota and offers beautiful views and sunsets. Monona Terrace Community & amp; Convention Center, located in the heart of the city center, also hosts free rooftop concerts during the summer.
The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps have given youths aged 16-22 a chance to perform in North America every summer since 1938. University of Wisconsin Marching Band is a popular marching band.
Popular bands and musicians
Garbage Band was formed in Madison in 1994, and has sold 17 million albums.
Madison has a festive independent rock scene, and local independent record labels include Crustacean Records, Science of Sound, Kind Turkey Records, and Art Paul Schlosser Inc. A Dr. Demento and favorite weekly karaoke live is The Gomers, which has Madison Mayoral Proclamation named after them. They have performed with fellow citizens of Wisconsin, Les Paul and Steve Miller.
Madison is also home to other notable national artists such as Paul Kowert of Punch Brothers, Brass Band Mama Digdown, Clyde Stubblefield of Funky Drummer and James Brown fame, and musicians Roscoe Mitchell, Richard Davis, Ben Sidran, Sexy Esther and Pretty Mama Sisters, Orchestral Orchestra Reptiles, Ted Park, DJ Pain 1, Killdozer, Zola Jesus, Caustic, PHOX, and Lou & amp; Peter Berryman, among others.
Music festival
In the summer, Madison hosts many music festivals, including the Waterfront Festival, Willy St. Fair, Atwood Summerfest, Isthmus Jazz Festival, Orton Park Festival, 94.1 WJJO's Band Camp, Greekfest, WORT Block Party and Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival, and Madison World Music Festival sponsored by the Wisconsin Union Theater (held at Memorial Union Terrace and at Willy St. Fair in September). Past festivals include the Madison Pop Festival and Forward Music Festival (2009-2010.) One of the latest additions is the FÃÆ'ªte de Marquette, which takes place around Bastille Day at various eastern locations. The new festival celebrates French music, focusing on the influence of Cajun. Madison also hosts an annual electronic music festival, Reverence, and Folk Ball, a world music and dance festival held annually in January. Madison is home to the LBGTQA festival, Fruit Fest, celebrating odd cultures and LGBT allies. Madison also plays host to the National Women's Music Festival. UW-Madison also hosts the annual music and arts festival, Revelry, on campus at Memorial Union every spring. The festival is held by students for students as a year-end celebration on campus.
Art
The Museum of Art includes the Chazen Art Museum at UW-Madison (formerly known as Elvehjem Museum), and the Madison Contemporary Art Museum, which annually hosts the popular Arts Exhibition on Alun-alun. Madison also has many independent art studios, galleries, and art organizations, with events such as Art Fair Off the Square. Other museums include the Wisconsin Historical Museum (run by the Wisconsin Historical Society), Wisconsin Veterans Museum, the Madison Children's Museum.
Performing arts
Madison Opera, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Theater Company Forward, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and Madison Ballet are some of the professional resident companies of the Overture Art Center. The city is also home to a number of smaller performing arts organizations, including a group of theater companies present at the Bartell Theater, a former movie palace renovated into a live theater space, and Opera for Young, an opera company that performs for elementary school students throughout the Midwest. The Wisconsin Union Theater (the 1,300-seat theater) is home to seasonal attractions and is the main stage for the Four Seasons Theater, a community theater company specializing in musical theater, and other groups. The Young Shakespeare Players, a theater group for youngsters, featuring Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw are not cut.
Community-based theater groups include the Children's Theater in Madison, Theater Strollers, Madison Theater Guild, Mercury Players, and Broom Street Theater (which is no longer in Broom Street).
Madison offers a comedy club, Comedy Club on State (which hosts the darkest Comic in Madison each year since 2010), owned by the Paras family. Madison has another option for more alternative humor, featuring several improvised groups, such as Atlas Improv Co., the Monkey Business Institute, as well as open mics almost every night.
Madison has one of the world's premier entertainment industry archives at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, part of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Architecture
The Wisconsin State Capitol dome was modeled after the US Capitol dome, and was erected at the high point of the isthmus. Visible throughout the Madison region, state legislation limits the height of buildings within a mile (1.6 km) of structures up to 1,032.8 feet (314.8 m) above sea level to maintain a building view in most areas of the city. Capitol Square is located in downtown Madison, and integrates with daily pedestrian and trade traffic. State Street and East Washington offer incredible views of the Parliament building.
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright spent most of his childhood in Madison and studied briefly at the university. The buildings in Madison were designed by Wright including Usonian House, and Unitarian Meeting House. Monona Terrace, now a convention and community center overlooking Lake Monona, was created by Anthony Puttnam - a Wright student - based on Wright's 1957 design. Harold C. Bradley House at the University of Heights is collaboratively designed by Louis H. Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie in 1908-10, and now functions as the Sigma Phi Brotherhood.
The Overture Center for the Arts opened in 2004, and the adjacent Museum of Contemporary Madison Art, opened in 2006, on State Street near the Parliament building designed by architect CÃÆ' Â © sar Pelli. Located within the Overture Center are Overture Hall, Capitol Theater, and The Playhouse. Its modernist style, with its simple stone-framed span, is designed to complement the facade of a nearby historic building.
The architectural firm Claude and Starck designed more than 175 Madison buildings, and many still stand, including Breese Stevens Field, Doty School (now condominiums), and many private residences.
Architecture on the University of Wisconsin campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by J. T. W. Jennings companies, such as Dairy Barn and Agricultural Hall, or by architects Arthur Peabody, such as the Union Memorial and Carillon Tower. Some of the campus buildings that were founded in 1960 followed a brutalist style. In 2005 the university embarked on a major redevelopment at the eastern end of the campus. The plan calls for flattening nearly a dozen 1950s to 1970s vintage buildings; construction of new dormitories, administration and classrooms; as well as the development of a new pedestrian mall that extends to Lake Mendota. The campus now includes 12 to 14 storey buildings.
Destination
- Alliant Energy Center/Veteran's Memorial Coliseum and Exhibition Hall
- Camp Randall Stadium
- Chazen Art Museum
- Madison Contemporary Art Museum
- The Madison Children's Museum
- Henry Vilas Zoo
- Kohl Center
- Mifflin Street, home of the annual Mifflin Street Block Party
- The Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
- Union Memorial
- Olbrich Botanical Gardens
- Overture Center for Art
- The Gate of Heaven, the oldest eighth synagogue building in the US.
- Country Road
- Williamson ("Willy") Road
- Intelligent Studio, Butch Vig, and old studio Steve Marker where many of the famous alternative rock notes of the 1990s and 2000s were recorded and/or produced
- Unitarian Meeting House, another famous & amp; a guided Frank Lloyd Wright structure, adjacent to the Madison city limits on the outskirts of Shorewood Hills
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum
- University of Wisconsin Field House
- UW-Madison Geological Museum
- Wisconsin Historical Society/Wisconsin Historical Museum
- Wisconsin Veterans Museum
- Wisconsin State Capitol
- Lakeshore Nature Preserve, campus-related preservation featuring the famous long peninsula named Picnic Point
Nickname
Over the years, Madison has earned its nickname and slogan that includes:
- Mad City
- Madtown
- Berkeley in the Midwest
- 77 square miles surrounded by reality
- Four Lake Cities
- Madison People's Republic
Sports
Madison's reputation as a sports town exists largely because of the University of Wisconsin. In 2004 Sports Illustrated on Campus named Madison the # 1 sports college town in the country. Scott Van Pelt also proclaimed Madison the best sports college town in America.
The UW-Madison team played sporting events at their homes in places in and around Madison. The football team plays at Camp Randall Stadium. In 2005 renovations added 72 luxury suites and increased the stadium capacity to 80,321, although a crowd of 83,000 had attended the match. Basketball and hockey teams play at Kohl Center. Construction in the $ 76 million arena was completed in 1997. In 2006, the Badger men's and women's hockey team won the NCAA Division I championships, and the women were repeated with the second national championship in a row in 2007. Several shows were played in Alliant's country Energy Center (formerly Dane County Memorial Coliseum) and University Field Field University.
Despite Madison's strong support for college sports, it has proven to be an unfriendly home for professional baseball. The Madison Muskies, Class A, Midwestern League affiliate of Oakland A, the city left in 1993 after 11 seasons. Madison Hatters, Class A team, other Midwest League, played in Madison only for the 1994 season. Madison Black Wolf, an independent Northern League franchise lasted five seasons (1996-2000), before decamping for Lincoln, Nebraska. Madison is home to Madison Mallards, the summer wooden baseball league bat team in the Northwoods League. They play at Warner Park on the north side of the city from June to August.
Go Crazy Dog Football Park that now no longer works once was in town. In 2009 indoor football returned to Madison as Continental Continental Football Indoor Wisconsin Wolfpack, who called Alliant Energy Center's home.
Madison was once home to the semi-pro Madison Mustangs football team playing at Warner Park and Camp Randall Stadium in the 1960s and 1970s. Madison once again became home to the semi-pro Madison Mustangs football team that was part of the Ironman Football League. The game is usually played on Saturdays during the summer months, with the home field being Middleton High School. The Mustangs has the nation's longest active winning streak in 49 matches, and has won 4 Soccer Football League championships directly.
The Wolves Wisconsin is a women's football-based semi-pro football team that plays in the IWFL Independent Women's Football League. The Wolves home field is located at Middleton High School.
The Blackhawk Ski Club, formed in 1947, provides ski jumping, cross-country skiing and mountain skiing. The club's programs have resulted in several Olympic ski jumps, two Olympic ski jumpers and one ski skier of the Olympic ski jump. The club has the first Nordic ski facilities with a lighted nightlight.
The Madison 56ers is a Madison amateur football team in the National Premier Soccer League. They play at Breese Stevens Field on East Washington Avenue.
Madison has several major active discs leagues organized through the nonprofit Madison Ultimate Frisbee Association. In 2013, Madison Radicals, a professional frisbee team, made its debut in the city.
Madison is home to the Wisconsin Rugby Club, National Champion Rugby Division II 1998 and 2013 US, and Wisconsin Women's Rugby Soccer Club, the country's only female Division I rugby team. The city also has a male and female rugby club in UW-Madison, alongside four high school men's teams and a high school girls team. The latest addition to Madison Rugby Club's Madison rugby community, comprised mostly of gay players and is the first and only IGRAB team in Wisconsin, but is open to any player with any level of experience. All ten teams play in Wisconsin Rugby Football Union, Midwest Rugby Union, and USA Rugby.
Nearly 100 women participated in Madison's adult women's ice hockey team (Thunder, Lightning, Freeze, UW-B and C team), who played in Women's Central Hockey League. The Gay Madison Hockey Association is also in Madison.
The Madison Curling Club was founded in 1921. The Spatola team of the Madison Curling Club won the US Women's 2014 National Championship. Team members were: Nina Spatola, Becca Hamilton, Tara Peterson, Sophie Brorson.
The Gaelic sports club in Madison offers organized launch teams as The Hurling Club of Madison, and the Gaelic football club, with a team of men and women. This is an amateur team with open membership.
The roller derby league, Mad Rollin 'Dolls, was formed in Madison in 2004 and is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association.
Madison is home to several endurance sporting events, such as Crazylegs Classic, Paddle and Portage, Mad City Marathon, and Ironman Wisconsin, which attracted over 45,000 spectators.
In 2014, Capitols Madison began playing in the Hockey League of the United States. The Capitols play their home game at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at Alliant Energy Center. NHL and Wisconsin Badgers alumna player Ryan Suter is a member of the team ownership group.
Starting 2017, Reebok CrossFit Games will be held at Alliant Energy Center. After seven years at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, the Olympics will move to a new location for at least the next three years. CrossFit chose a multi-purpose entertainment venue, which covers 164 acres, after submitting a national request for a proposal. Dane County campus will be home to Reebok CrossFit Games in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Current team
Government
Madison has a governor-council governance system. Madison city council, known as the General Council, consists of 20 members, one from each district. The mayor was elected in the entire city vote.
Madison is at the heart of the 2nd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives, represented by Mark Pocan (D) in the United States House of Representatives. Mark F. Miller (D) and Fred Risser (D) represent Madison in the Wisconsin State Senate, and Robb Kahl (D), Melissa Sargent (D), Chris Taylor (D), Terese Berceau (D), and Lisa Subeck D) representing Madison in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Ron Johnson (R) and Tammy Baldwin (D) represent Madison, and all of Wisconsin, in the United States Senate. Baldwin is a resident of Madison; he represents the second from 1999 to 2013 before handing it to Pocan.
Emergency services
Madison Police Department
Madison Police Department is a law enforcement agency in the city. It has been headed by Chief Michael Koval since 2014. The department has five districts: Central, East, North, South and West, with the sixth "Midtown" district to open in 2017.
Custom unit
Controversy
The Madison Police Department was criticized for freeing Officer Steve Heimsness of any error in the shooting by an unarmed man, November 2012, Paul Heenan. The department's actions resulted in public protests, including the demand that the shootings be examined and reviewed by an independent investigative body. WisconsinWatch.org questioned the facts and findings of the MPD, stating that the use of lethal force by Heimsness is unwarranted. There is a call to check the rules of engagement of the Madison Police Department and the legal process for officers who use lethal force in performing their duties.
The public criticism of the department's practice came back after MP Matt Mattny shot Tony Robinson, an unarmed man. The shooting was highly controversial given the context of the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement. Because of the new Wisconsin state law that addresses the mechanisms in which officer-in-civilian violence is handled by state prosecutors, the process is submitted to a special unit of the Wisconsin Department of Justice in Madison. On March 27, 2015, the state concluded its investigation and gave its findings to Ismael Ozanne, district attorney for Dane County. On May 12, 2015, the shooting was determined to justify self-defense by Ozanne.
Madison Fire Department
The Madison Fire Department (MFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the city. MFD operates from 13 fire stations, with 11 engine fleets, 5 stairs, 2 rescuers, 2 hazmat units, a lake rescue team, and eight ambulances. MFD also provides mutual assistance to surrounding communities.
Politics
City voters have supported the Democratic Party in national elections in the last half century, and the liberal and progressive majority are generally elected to city councils. Detractors often refer to Madison as Madison People's Republic , "Wisconsin Left Coast" or as "77 square miles surrounded by reality." This last sentence was created by former Wisconsin Republican governor Lee S. Dreyfus, during a campaign in 1978, as reported by campaign aide Bill Kraus. In 2013, there was a motion in the city council to change the contempt of Dreyfus to the official city "funny," but canceled by the city council.
City voters are generally much more liberal than voters around Wisconsin. For example, 76% of Madison voters voted against the state constitution amendment of 2006 to ban gay marriage, although the ban went through the state with 59% of the vote.
Current politics
Madison's city politics is still dominated by liberal and progressive ideological activists. In 1992, a local third party, Progressive Dane, was established. The city policy supported in the Dane Progressive platform has included an inclusive zoning regulation, later abandoned by the mayor and the majority of the city council, and the city's minimum wage. The party has several seats in Madison City Council and Dane County Supervisory Board, and is aligned with various Democratic and Green parties.
In early 2011, Madison was the site for major protests against a bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that wiped out almost all collective bargaining for public unions. The protests in the parliament building ranged from 10,000 to 100,000 people and lasted for several months.
Historical politics
In the 1960s and 1970s, Madison's fights were centered around the streets of Mifflin and Bassett, referred to as "Miffland". The area contained many three-story apartments where the students and teenagers were alive, painting a mural, and operating a cooperative grocery store, Mifflin Street Co-op. Residents from the neighborhood often come into conflict with the authorities, especially during the administration of Republican mayor Bill Dyke. Dyke is seen by students as a direct antagonist in an effort to protest the Vietnam War because of his efforts to suppress local protests. The annual Mifflin Street Block party became the focal point for protest, although by the late 1970s it had become a major community feast.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of students and other citizens took part in the anti-Vietnam War rallies and demonstrations, with more violent incidents attracting national attention to the city and UW campus. These include:
- the 1967 student protest from Dow Chemical Company, with 74 injured;
- the 1969 strike to secure greater representation and rights for African-American students and faculty, which resulted in the involvement of the Wisconsin National Army Guard;
- the 1970 fire that caused damage to the ROTC Army headquarters housed in the Old Red Gym, also known as Armory; and
- the late 1970's bombing of the ANFO bombing of the Army Mathematical Research Center at Sterling Hall, killing a postdoctoral researcher, Robert Fassnacht. (See Sterling Hall bombing)
This protest is the subject of the documentary film The War at Home . David Maraniss's book, They marched to Sunlight , incorporating the Dow's 1967 protest into the larger Vietnam War narrative. Tom Bates wrote the book Rads on the subject (ISBNÃ, 0-06-092428-4). Bates writes that Dyke's efforts to suppress the annual Mifflin Street block party "will take three days, require hundreds of officers to pay overtime, and engulf the student community from the nearby Southeast Dorms to the Langdon Street fraternity." Tear gas hangs like a thick fog across Isthmus. "In the quarrel, student activist Paul Soglin, then a member of the city council, was arrested twice and taken to jail. Soglin was later elected mayor of Madison, serving from 1973 to 1979, 1989 to 1997, and is the current mayor, elected again in April 2011. During his tenure he led the construction of Frank Lloyd Wright designed by Monona Terrace.
Groups and political publications
Madison is home to the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes the separation of church and state. The largest national organization advocating non-theist, the FFRF is known for its lawsuits against religious fairs on public property and to advocate the abolition of the "In God We Trust" of the American currency. The group publishes a monthly newspaper, Freethought Today .
Madison is associated with the "Fighting Bob" of La Follette and the Progressive movement. La Follette magazine, The Progressive , founded in 1909, is still published in Madison.
Crime
In 2008, Men's Health magazine placed Madison as the "Least Armed and Dangerous" city in the United States in an article on "Where Men Are Target". There were 53 murders reported by Madison Police from 2000 to 2009. The highest number was 10 in 2008. Police reported 28 murders from 2010 to 2015, with the highest year being 7 murders in 2011.
Education
According to Forbes magazine, Madison ranks second in education. Madison Metropolitan School District serves the city and the surrounding area. With enrollment of around 25,000 students in 46 schools, it is the second largest school district in Wisconsin behind the Milwaukee School District. The five public high schools are James Madison Memorial, Madison West, Madison East, La Follette, and Malcolm Shabazz City High School, alternative schools.
Among the private high schools associated with the church is the Abundant Life Christian School, Edgewood High School, located near the Edgewood College, and St. Ambrose Academy, a Catholic school offering classes 6 to 12. Madison Country Day School is a private high school with no religious affiliation.
The city is home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College, and Madison Media Institute, giving the city a population of nearly 50,000 post-secondary students. The University of Wisconsin accounts for the majority of students, with enrollment of approximately 41,000, among which 30,750 are students. In the magazine ranking of Forbes magazine from 2003, Madison has the highest number of Ph.D.s per capita, and the third highest college graduate per capita, among cities in the United States.
Additional degree programs are available through the satellite campuses of Cardinal Stritch University, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Globe University, Lakeland College, University of Phoenix, and Upper Iowa University. Madison also has a non-credit learning community with many programs and many private businesses also offer classes.
Media
Madison is home to a wide and diverse print publication, reflecting the city's role as the nation's capital and its diverse political, cultural and academic population. The Wisconsin State Journal was published in the morning, while the publication of his sister, The Capital Times (Thursday supplement to the Journal) published online every day, with two print editions a week. Although operated together under the name Capital Newspapers, Journal is owned by the national network of Lee Enterprises, and Times is independently owned. Wisconsin State Journal is a descendant of Wisconsin Express , a paper founded in the Wisconsin Territory in 1839. The Capital Times was founded in 1917 by William T. Evjue, a business manager for the State Journal who disagrees with the editorial criticism of the newspaper from Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. for his opposition to the US entry into World War I.
The weekly free weekly newspaper Isthmus (weekly circulation: ~ 65,000) was founded in Madison in 1976. The Onion , a satirical weekly, was founded in Madison in 1988 and published from there until moving to New York in 2001. Two student newspapers were published during the academic year, The Daily Cardinal (Mon-Fri circulation: ~ 10,000) and The Badger Herald ( Mon-Fri circulation: ~ 16,000). Other dedicated print publications focus on local music, politics and sports, including The Madison City, Madison Magazine, The Madison Times, Madison Magazine , The Simpson Street Free Press , Umoja Magazine , and the fantasy-sports website RotoWire.com. Local community blogs include Althouse and dane101.
The Progressive , published in Madison, is a left-wing magazine that is perhaps best known for US government efforts in 1979 to suppress one of its articles before it was published. The magazine finally won in the First Amendment case, United States v. The Progressive, Inc. During the 1970s, there were two radical weekly published in Madison, known as TakeOver and Free for All , as well as Madison's underground newspaper edition > Bugle-American . Radio
Madison has three major media companies that own the majority of commercial radio stations in the market. These companies consist of iHeartMedia, Entercom Communications, and Mid-West Family Broadcasting as well as other smaller broadcasters. Madison is home to Mid-West Family Broadcasting, an independent, Madison-based independent broadcasting company. Mid-West Family has radio stations throughout the state and Midwest.
Madison hosts two community-operated volunteer and community-oriented radio stations, WORT and WSUM. WORT Community Radio (89.9 FM), founded in 1975, is one of the oldest volunteer-powered radio stations in the United States. A sponsored community radio station, WORT offers a variety of locally produced music and talk programs. WSUM (91.7 FM) is a free-form student radio station programmed and operated almost entirely by students.
Wisconsin Madison Public Radio Station, WHA, is one of the country's first radio stations to start broadcasting, and remains the country's longest continuous broadcasting station. Many heard of public radio programs coming from WPR studios including Michael Feldman Whad'Ya Know? , Zorba Pastor On Your Health , To The Best of Our Knowledge and Calling All Pets .
The WXJ-87 is a NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards station located on the west side of Madison, with broadcasts coming from the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wisconsin.
TV
Madison has five commercial and two public television stations. The commercial station consists of WISC-TV "News 3" (CBS), WMTV-TV "NBC 15" (NBC), WKOW-TV "27 News" (ABC), WMSN-TV "FOX 47" (Fox), and WIFS "Wisconsin 57" (independent). Madison has two public television stations: WHA-TV, owned by the University of Wisconsin-Extension, is broadcasting across the state, with the exception of Milwaukee, and Madison City Channel, owned and operated by Madison City covering government affairs.
Infrastructure
Bicycling
By 2015, Madison was awarded a platinum title from the Bicycle Friendly Community of the League of American Bicyclists, one of only five US cities receiving this (highest) level.
Transportation
Madison is served by Dane County Regional Airport, which serves nearly 1.6 million passengers annually. Most major major aviation operations take place at Morey Field in Middleton 15 miles (24 km) from downtown Madison. Madison Metro operates bus routes throughout the city and to some of the neighboring suburbs. Madison has four taxi companies (Union, Badger, Madison, and Green), and some companies provide special transportation for people with disabilities.
Starting from the last decade of the 20th century, Madison has become one of the leading cities for cycling as a form of transportation, with about 3% of the working population pedaling on their way to work. The share of Madison worker cycling to work increased to 5.3% by 2014. According to the 2016 American Community Survey, 65.7% of Madison's work-driven, 6.7% carpooled, 8.6% employed transport general, and 8.5% walking. About 6% use all other forms of transportation, including bicycles, motorcycles, and taxis. About 4.5% work at home.
By 2015, 11.2% of Madison households are without cars, unchanged by 2016. The national average is 8.7% by 2016. Madison averaged 1.5 cars per household by 2016, compared with a national average of 1.8 per household.
Train
The passenger train service between Madison and Chicago, at Sioux and Varsity, provided by Milwaukee Road, ended in 1971 with Amtrak absorbing passenger train services. Prior to 1960, the Sioux railway offered a western service to Rapid City, South Dakota. Until 1950 a railway operated by Chicago and the North Western Railway through the city. High-speed rail routes from Chicago via Milwaukee and Madison to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, are proposed as part of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative. Funding for the railroad connecting Madison to Milwaukee was approved in January 2010, but the Opposition chosen by Governor Scott Walker against the project led the Federal Railroad Administration to recall $ 810 million in funding and reallocate it to other projects. The nearest passenger train station is in Columbus, Wisconsin, 28 miles (45 km) away to the northeast. There, the eastern Empire Builder provides daily services to Milwaukee and Chicago, and the Westward Empire Builder provides daily services to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.
Rail delivery service is provided to Madison by Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR) and Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). Wisconsin & amp; Southern has been in operation since 1980, after taking over the tracks it had owned since the 19th century by Chicago and North Western and Milwaukee Road.
Highway
Interstate I-39 and I-90 intersect with I-94 in Madison, connecting cities to Milwaukee, Chicago, Janesville (Wisconsin), Rockford (Illinois), Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Wausau (Wisconsin). US routes US 12, US-14, US-18, US-51 and US-151 connect cities with Dubuque, Iowa, Wisconsin city of La Crosse and Janesville, Fond du Lac, and Manitowoc. The Beltline is a six to eight-way freeway on the south and western sides of Madison and is the main link from downtown to the southeast and western suburbs. Some carharing services are available in Madison, including Community Car, local owned company, and U-Haul Uhaul Car Share branch. Interstates 90 and 39 are currently being expanded into six lines from the state line to Madison and eight lanes in Janesville.
Utilities
In the mid-2000s, Madison partnered with Merrimac Communications to develop and build Mad City Broadband, the wireless Internet infrastructure for the city. In early 2010, grassroots efforts to bring Google's new high-speed Internet fiber to Madison failed.
Madison is served by Madison Gas and Electric and Alliant Energy, which provides electricity and natural gas services to the city.
The famous Madisonian people
Twin Cities
Ainaro, East Timor, since 2001The former twin cities include:
- B? c Giang, Vietnam
- Oslo, Norway
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Madison
Note
References
Further reading
- Bates, Tom, Rads: The bombing of the 1970 Center for Army Mathematical Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its Occurrence (1993) ISBN: 0-06-092428-4
- Durrie, Daniel S. History of Madison, Capital of Wisconsin; Includes Four Lakes Country. Madison: Atwood & amp; Culver, 1874.
- Madison, Dane County and Surrounding City . Madison: Wm. J. Park & ​​â € <â € < Co., 1877.
- Maraniss, David, They marched to Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967 (2003) ISBNÃ, 0-7432-1780-2 ISBNÃ, 0-7432-6104-6 (about Dow Chemical protests, and fighting in Vietnam that happened the previous day)
- Nolen, John. Madison: Model City . Boston: 1911.
- Thwaites, Reuben Gold. The Madison Story . J. N. Purcell, 1900.
External links
- Official website
- The Great Madison Convention & amp; Visitor Bureau
- Mendota Lake and other Yahara River lakes
- The Wisconsin Collection state presented by the UW Digital Collection Center includes digital resources in Madison, including:
- Historical County Plat Maps from South Central Wisconsin and Early Madison City Directories
- Map of fire insurance in Sanborn: 1885 1892 1898 1902 1908
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