Kalamazoo Michigan is equidistant from Chicago and Detroit, being about 140 miles away from both.
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33 Facts About Kalamazoo Michigan
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The name “Kalamazoo Michigan” comes from a Potawatomi word, first found in a British report in 1772.
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The Kalamazoo Michigan River was then known by Canadians and French as La riviere Kikanamaso.
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Name Kalamazoo Michigan, which sounds unusual to English speakers, has become a metonym for exotic places, as in the phrase "from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo Michigan".
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However, the area around present-day Kalamazoo Michigan was reserved as the village of Potawatomi Chief Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish.
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Kalamazoo Michigan was legally incorporated as a village in 1838 and as a city in 1883.
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Fertile farmlands attracted prosperous Yankee farmers who settled the surrounding area, and sent their sons to Kalamazoo Michigan to become businessmen, professionals and entrepreneurs who started numerous factories.
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Kalamazoo Michigan was the original home of Gibson Guitar Corporation, which spawned the still-local Heritage Guitars.
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Kalamazoo Michigan was once known as the "Paper City" because of the paper mills in and near the city.
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Early in the 20th century, Kalamazoo Michigan was home to the brass era automobile company Barley.
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Kalamazoo Michigan was headquarters of the Checker Motors Company, the former manufacturer of the Checker Cab, which stamped sheet metal parts for other auto manufacturers.
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Several small tributaries of the Kalamazoo Michigan River, including Arcadia Creek and Portage Creek, wind through the city.
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At least part of the municipal water supply for Kalamazoo is provided by the watershed contained within the Al Sabo Preserve in Texas Charter Township, Michigan, immediately southwest of Kalamazoo.
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City of Kalamazoo Michigan is commonly divided into 22 neighborhoods, many of which are served by a neighborhood association.
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Kalamazoo Michigan has many local breweries and brewpubs that produce a variety of beer styles.
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In March 2011, Western Kalamazoo Michigan University received a gift of $100 million for the medical school from anonymous donors.
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Kalamazoo Michigan hospitals include: Kalamazoo Michigan Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Bronson Methodist Hospital, and Ascension Borgess Hospital.
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In 2015, Kalamazoo Michigan-based landscape design and manufacturing firm Landscape Forms, Inc, received five National Design Awards.
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In 2015, two members of Southwest Kalamazoo Michigan First were selected for Development Counsellors International's "2015 40 under 40, " top 40 young economic developers in the United States.
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Kalamazoo Michigan government is administered under a commission-manager style of government.
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Crime is spread throughout Kalamazoo Michigan and is especially high in the inner neighborhoods such as Edison, the Northside and Vine.
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Small sections of Kalamazoo Michigan are in other school districts: Parchment School District, Comstock Public Schools and Portage Public Schools.
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On New Year's Eve, downtown Kalamazoo Michigan is the site of an annual New Year's Fest celebration.
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Kalamazoo Michigan Valley Museum, established in 1881, is an American Association of Museums accredited museum operated by Kalamazoo Michigan Valley Community College.
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Kalamazoo Michigan is host to the Kalamashoegazer music festival, held for the last 13 years and a showcase for both local and national shoegaze and dream pop bands.
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Kalamazoo Michigan was the hometown of longtime Detroit Tigers owner John Fetzer, who owned the American League team from 1961 through 1984, when he sold the franchise to Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.
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Kalamazoo Michigan is served by one daily newspaper, the Kalamazoo Michigan Gazette, which now prints three editions weekly as of early 2012.
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Business Review Western Michigan, a business-to-business publication headquartered in Kalamazoo, covering Western Michigan news, was rolled into MLive online coverage in late 2012.
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Fetzer created Kalamazoo Michigan's first cable television system, then known as Fetzer Cablevision; it is a predecessor of Kalamazoo Michigan's current cable franchise, Charter Communications.
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Charter offers all West Michigan channels on its system to Kalamazoo subscribers, including WZZM, the ABC affiliate for Grand Rapids and the northern part of the market.
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Kalamazoo Michigan's name is a familiar reference in popular music, since its unique sound makes it a "great word for a lyric".
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In 2014 Kalamazoo Michigan was mentioned again by Rittz in the song "Bounce" on his album Next to Nothing.
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