15 Facts About Dearborn Michigan

Dearborn is the seventh most-populated city in Michigan and is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States per capita.

Dearborn Michigan developed mass production of automobiles, and based the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company here.

Dearborn Michigan residents are Americans primarily of European or Middle Eastern ancestry, many descendants of 19th and 20th-century immigrants.

Many of Dearborn Michigan's residents "took pride in the saying, 'The sun never set on a Negro in Dearborn Michigan'".

Arab Americans in Dearborn Michigan include descendants of Lebanese Christians who immigrated in the early twentieth century to work in the auto industry, as well as more recent Arab immigrants and their descendants from other, primarily Muslim nations.

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Dearborn Michigan refused to allow distribution of the Autumn 2018 issue to subscribers.

Dearborn Michigan is among a small number of municipalities that own property in other cities.

Dearborn Michigan was among an even smaller number of cities that hold property in another state: for a time the city owned the "Dearborn Michigan Towers" apartment complex in Clearwater, Florida, but this has been sold.

Dearborn Michigan has a large community of descendants of ethnic Europeans who arrived as immigrants from the mid-19th into the 20th centuries.

Dearborn Michigan was found to have violated their constitutional rights related to freedom of speech.

Sharron Angle, a Republican senatorial candidate in Nevada, said in an October 2010 political speech that the Arab Americans in Dearborn Michigan contributed to a "militant terrorist situation, " and that the city government was enforcing Islamic sharia law.

DFCU Financial, the largest credit union in Dearborn Michigan, was created for Ford and related companies' employees.

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Dearborn Michigan, operating its Wolverine three times daily in each direction between Chicago, Illinois and Pontiac, via Detroit.

Dearborn Michigan is served by buses of both the Detroit Department of Transportation and the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) systems.

Dearborn Michigan has several buildings designed by architect Albert Kahn for Henry Ford.