57 Facts About Cleveland Ohio

Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio was a major stop on the Underground Railroad for escaped African American slaves en route to Canada.

At this time, Cleveland Ohio saw the rise of radical labor movements, most prominently the Industrial Workers of the World, in response to the conditions of the largely immigrant and migrant workers.

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

However, by the 1960s, Cleveland Ohio'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.

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

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 Ohio became the first major American city since the Great Depression to enter into a financial default on federal loans.

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

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

Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio Heights and Beachwood, home to the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Between 1910 and 1970, the black population of Cleveland Ohio, 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 Ohio, 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 Ohio proper is home to several private and parochial schools.

Cleveland Ohio's oversaw the construction of the library's main building on Superior Avenue, designed by Walker and Weeks and opened on May 6, 1925.

Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio is home to Karamu House, the oldest African American theater in the nation, established in 1915.

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

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

Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio 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 was in 1897 by the company of Ohioan Thomas Edison.

Downtown Cleveland Ohio doubled for New York in Spider-Man 3 and the climax of The Avengers (2012).

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

Cleveland Ohio wrote for the school newspaper and started writing his earlier plays, poems and short stories while living in Cleveland.

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Cleveland Ohio's adolescence was divided between Cleveland and Akron before he moved to New York City in 1916.

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

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

Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio 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 Ohio showcases established and emerging artists, particularly from the Cleveland Ohio area, through hosting and producing temporary exhibitions.

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

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

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

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

Cleveland Ohio participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals.

In recent years, Cleveland 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 Ohio's resting place is the James A Garfield Memorial in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cleveland Ohio is served by two three-digit interstates, Interstate 480, which enters Cleveland Ohio 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 Ohio 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 Ohio, 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 Ohio has a long history as a major railroad hub in the United States.

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

Cleveland Ohio 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.