56 Facts About Cleveland OH

Cleveland OH was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River by General Moses Cleaveland, after whom the city was named.

Home to a vocal group of abolitionists, Cleveland OH was a major stop on the Underground Railroad for escaped African American slaves en route to Canada.

Cleveland OH was hit hard by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression.

However, by the 1960s, Cleveland OH's economy began to slow down, and residents increasingly sought new housing in the suburbs, reflecting the national trends of suburban growth following federally subsidized highways.

The burning of the Cuyahoga River in June 1969 brought national attention to the issue of industrial pollution in Cleveland OH and served as a catalyst for the American environmental movement.

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In November 1967, Cleveland became the first major American city to elect an African American mayor, Carl B Stokes, who served from 1968 to 1971 and played an instrumental role in restoring the Cuyahoga River.

In December 1978, during the turbulent tenure of Dennis Kucinich as mayor, Cleveland OH became the first major American city since the Great Depression to enter into a financial default on federal loans.

Cleveland OH City Planning Commission has officially designated 34 neighborhoods in Cleveland OH.

The presence of Hungarians within Cleveland OH proper was, at one time, so great that the city boasted the highest concentration of Hungarians in the world outside of Budapest.

Cleveland OH has a long-established Jewish community, historically centered on the East Side neighborhoods of Glenville and Kinsman, but now mostly concentrated in East Side suburbs such as Cleveland OH Heights and Beachwood, home to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Between 1910 and 1970, the black population of Cleveland OH, largely concentrated on the city's East Side, increased significantly as a result of the First and Second Great Migrations.

Recent waves of immigration have brought new groups to Cleveland OH, including Ethiopians and South Asians, as well as immigrants from Russia and the former USSR, Southeast Europe, the Middle East, East Asia, and Latin America.

Cleveland OH Clinic is the largest private employer in the city of Cleveland OH and the state of Ohio, with a workforce of over 50,000 as of 2019.

Cleveland OH proper is home to several private and parochial schools.

Cleveland OH is home to Playhouse Square, the second largest performing arts center in the United States behind New York City's Lincoln Center.

Outside Playhouse Square, Cleveland OH is home to Karamu House, the oldest African American theater in the nation, established in 1915.

Cleveland OH is home to the Cleveland OH Orchestra, widely considered one of the world's finest orchestras, and often referred to as the finest in the nation.

The Cleveland OH Orchestra plays at Severance Hall in University Circle during the winter and at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls during the summer.

Cleveland OH gained a strong reputation in rock music in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s as a key breakout market for nationally promoted acts and performers.

Cleveland OH has served as the setting for many major studio and independent films, and, early in American film history, it was even a center for film production.

The first film shot in Cleveland OH was in 1897 by the company of Ohioan Thomas Edison.

Downtown Cleveland OH doubled for New York in Spider-Man 3 and the climax of The Avengers .

Future Cleveland OH productions are handled by the Greater Cleveland OH Film Commission at the Leader Building on Superior Avenue.

Cleveland OH'sadolescence was divided between Cleveland and Akron before he moved to New York City in 1916.

Cleveland OH was the home of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who created the comic book character Superman in 1932.

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In 1925, Soviet futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky came to Cleveland OH and gave a "fiery poetry recitation" to the city's ethnic working class, as part of his trip to the United States.

Cleveland OH is the site of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, established by poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf in 1935, which recognizes books that have made important contributions to the understanding of racism and human diversity.

The Cleveland OH Museum of Art is a major American art museum, with a collection that includes more than 40,000 works of art ranging over 6,000 years, from ancient masterpieces to contemporary pieces.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland OH showcases established and emerging artists, particularly from the Cleveland OH area, through hosting and producing temporary exhibitions.

German, Irish, Jewish, and Italian American cuisines are prominent in Cleveland OH, as are Lebanese, Greek, Chinese, and numerous other ethnic cuisines.

Cleveland OH has plenty of corned beef, with nationally renowned Slyman's, on the near East Side, a perennial winner of various accolades from Esquire Magazine, including being named the best corned beef sandwich in America in 2008.

Cleveland OH has had a long history of brewing, tied to many of its ethnic immigrants, and in recent decades has reemerged as a regional leader in production.

Cleveland OH is home to expansions from other countries, including the Scottish BrewDog and German Hofbrauhaus.

Cleveland OH Guardians, known as the Indians from 1915 to 2021, won the World Series in 1920 and 1948.

Previously, the Cleveland OH Rosenblums dominated the original American Basketball League winning three of the first five championships, and the Cleveland OH Pipers, owned by George Steinbrenner, won the American Basketball League championship in 1962.

In recent years, Cleveland OH has been working to address the issue of harmful algal blooms on Lake Erie, fed primarily by agricultural runoff, which have presented new environmental challenges for the city and for northern Ohio.

Cleveland OH is a major stronghold for the Democratic Party in Ohio.

The city of Cleveland OH supported Kerry over Bush by the even larger margin of 83.

Cleveland OH hosted three Republican national conventions in its history, in 1924,1936, and 2016.

Cleveland OH has not hosted a national convention for the Democrats, despite the position of Cuyahoga County as a Democratic stronghold in Ohio.

Cleveland OH is served by the firefighters of the Cleveland OH Division of Fire, established in 1863.

Cleveland OH EMS is operated by the city as its own municipal third-service EMS division.

Cleveland OH is the 19th-largest television market by Nielsen Media Research .

Cleveland OH is directly served by 29 AM and FM radio stations, 21 of which are licensed to the city.

Cleveland OH is home to a number of hospital systems, some of which are in University Circle.

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Cleveland OH has a bus and rail mass transit system operated by the Greater Cleveland OH Regional Transit Authority .

In 1968, Cleveland OH became the first city in the nation to have a direct rail transit connection linking the city's downtown to its major airport.

Cleveland OH is the only metropolitan area in the Western Hemisphere with its rail rapid transit system having only one center-city area rapid transit station .

City of Cleveland OH has a higher than average percentage of households without a car.

Cleveland OH is served by two three-digit interstates, Interstate 480, which enters Cleveland OH briefly at a few points and Interstate 490, which connects I-77 with the junction of I-90 and I-71 just south of downtown.

Cleveland OH Hopkins is a significant regional air freight hub hosting FedEx Express, UPS Airlines, United States Postal Service, and major commercial freight carriers.

Port of Cleveland OH, at the Cuyahoga River's mouth, is a major bulk freight and container terminal on Lake Erie, receiving much of the raw materials used by the region's manufacturing industries.

Cleveland OH has a long history as a major railroad hub in the United States.

Cleveland OH was identified as a hub for the now-suspended Ohio Hub project, which would bring high-speed rail to Ohio.

Megabus provides service to Cleveland OH and has a stop at the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Transit Center on the east side of downtown.

Cleveland OH is home to the Consulate General of the Republic of Slovenia, which, until Slovene independence in 1991, served as an official consulate for Tito's Yugoslavia.