The University of Evansville is a private school on the city's east side, while the University of Southern Indiana is a larger public institution just outside the city's westside limits.
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13 Facts About Evansville Indiana
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The land encompassing Evansville was formally relinquished by the Delaware in 1805 to General William Henry Harrison, then governor of the Indiana Territory.
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The Evansville Indiana Shipyard was the nation's largest inland producer of LSTs.
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The largest industry sectors in size in Evansville Indiana are healthcare, finance, education, and manufacturing.
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Deaconess Health System and St Vincent Evansville Indiana, including the Deaconess Gateway and Women's Hospital just outside city limits, provide the anchors for a health care system that are among the region's largest employers.
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City of Evansville Indiana offers a tax structure for companies locating inside the Evansville Indiana urban enterprise zone.
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University of Evansville Indiana maintains a theater program, which features four mainstage and two studio productions a year.
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The Evansville Indiana Otters are a professional baseball team in the Frontier League and have played at Bosse Field since 1995.
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The Evansville Indiana Thunderbolts are a minor league professional ice hockey team in the Southern Professional Hockey League and play at the Ford Center.
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From 1957 to 1975, and then again in 2002 and 2014, Evansville Indiana hosted the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship .
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Indiana University School of Medicine - Evansville opened in 2018 in a new interdisciplinary academic health science education and research campus downtown in partnership with the University of Southern Indiana and the University of Evansville.
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In 2012, Evansville Indiana was featured on the British television program Supersize vs Superskinny because of a poll that ranked the residents of the city as the most obese in the United States.
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