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City of Festivals Parade

[1] Thomas Heinen, “Astronauts to Highlight City of Festivals Parade,” The Milwaukee Journal, February 27, 1984, accessed February 10, 2014, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19840227&id=HnEaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ACoEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2132,4767689.

[2] Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius, Images of America: Swiss in Greater Milwaukee (Charleston: Arcadia 2010), 118; Thor Christensen, “Summerfest May Cut

City of Glendale

[1] John M. McCarthy, Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the Politics of Growth, 1910-1960 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009), 172.

[2] Frederick I. Olson, “City Expansion and Suburban Spread: Settlements and Governments in Milwaukee County,” in Trading Post to Metropolis: Milwaukee County’s First 150 Years, ed. Ralph M. Aderman (Milwaukee:

City of Mequon

[1] U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census of Population and Housing, Population and Housing Unit Counts, CPH-2-51, Wisconsin (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012), 31, last accessed November 9, 2018.

[2] “Mequon Gets Official Status as City,” Milwaukee Sentinel, May 25, 1957.

[3] Walter D. Corrigan, Sr., Town of Mequon, Ozaukee County,

City of Milwaukee

[1] United States Census Bureau, “Milwaukee city, Wisconsin,” http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/POP010210/ 5553000, last accessed March 26, 2016.

[2] Bill Glauber and Kevin Crowe, “Milwaukee Population Grows despite Slip in National Rank,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 22, 2013.

[3] John Gurda, The Making of Milwaukee, 3rd ed. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee County Historical

City of Oak Creek

[1] Mrs. Alfred J. Meyer, “History of the Oak Creek Township” (Oak Creek Historical Society records, n.d.).

[2] Jim Cech, Oak Creek: Fifty Years of Progress (Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005), 15-18. For a concise summary of Oak Creek’s incorporation, see John M. McCarthy, Making Milwaukee Mightier: Planning and the

City of Pewaukee

[1] Wisconsin Historical Society, “Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Term: Pewaukee,” accessed August 4, 2013, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=15127&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=Places.

[2] Sam Martino, “Town of Pewaukee Residents OK City Status on 11th Try,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 10, 1999, 1A.

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City of Port Washington

[1] Mary Jane Frances Price, “The History of Port Washington, in Ozaukee, Wisconsin” (MA thesis, DePaul University, 1943).

[2] Treaty between the United States of America and the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottowa, and the Potawatomie Indians. Concluded September 26, 1833—Ratified February 21, 1835.

[3] Mrs. Sturges W. Bailey, ed., History of Washington and

City of South Milwaukee

[1] Christopher Mark Miller, “Milwaukee’s First Suburbs: A Re-interpretation of Suburban Incorporation in Nineteenth-Century Milwaukee County” (PhD diss., Marquette University, 2007), 129.

[2] Miller “Milwaukee’s First Suburbs,” 135.

[3] Miller “Milwaukee’s First Suburbs,” chapter 4.

[4] Miller “Milwaukee’s First Suburbs,” 151.

[5] Milwaukee Journal, October 31 and November 14, 1891.

[6] Miller “

City of St. Francis

[1] “St. Francis (city), Wisconsin,” United States Census Bureau, accessed October 25, 2014.

[2] Larry Van Goethem, And So They Came: The History of the City of St. Francis on the Occasion of Its 25th Anniversary, 1951-1976 (Franklin Press, Inc., 1976), 4.

[3] Van Goethem, And So They Came, 4.

[4] Van Goethem, <

City of Waukesha

[1] Spelled “Pottawomie” in early Waukesha documents.

[2] Theron W. Haight, ed., Memoirs of Waukesha County (Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1907), 21-22.

[3] Haight, Memoirs of Waukesha County, 22.

[4] Haight, Memoirs of Waukesha County, 21 and 25.

[5] Haight, Memoirs of Waukesha County, 26, gives the

City of Wauwatosa

[1] “Elected Officials,” City of Wauwatosa website,http://www.wauwatosa.net/index.aspx?nid=170, last accessed June 11, 2017; United States Census Bureau, “Wauwatosa, city Wisconsin,” https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/ pages/community_facts.xhtml, last accessed June 15, 2017.

[2] “About Wauwatosa,” City of Wauwatosa website, http://www.wauwatosa.net/index.aspx?NID=706, last accessed

City of West Allis

[1] United States Census Bureau, “West Allis city, Wisconsin,” https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/ community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk, last accessed June 10, 2017.

[2] “City Government,” City of West Allis website, last accessed June 10, 2017.

[3] “School Attendance Areas,” West Allis-West Milwaukee School District website, http://www.wawm.k12.wi.us/district/

Civil Disorder of 1967

[1] Milwaukee Journal, July 31, 1967.

[2] Karl Flaming, “The 1967 Milwaukee Riot: A Historical and Comparative Analysis” (Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1970), 29, 43-48; Patrick D. Jones, The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 144-46.

[3] Flaming, “The 1967 Milwaukee Riot,” 29-31, 81; Jones, Selma

Civil Rights

[1] Joe William Trotter, Jr., Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 18-20, 29-33; St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Historical Society, Comprehensive Historical Review of St. Mark Methodist Episcopal Church: 1869-1989 (Milwaukee: St. Mark AME Church, 1989), 17, 18, 26-28.

[2] Letter to Mabel Raimey from

Clarke Square

[1] Narrative of Andrew Vieau, Sr., originally published in Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. 11 (1888), published online by Wisconsin’s French Connections, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, last accessed October 22, 2018.

[2] John Gurda, “Frontier Valentines: Living Proof That Love Can and Did Abide,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 7, 1999.

[3] Harry Anderson, “Recreation, Entertainment,

Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center

[1] Patricia A. Lynch, Milwaukee’s Soldiers Home (Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2013), 8; “Zablocki, Clement John, (1912-1983),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, last accessed June 8, 2017; “National Register of Historic Places,” National Park Service, last accessed June 8, 2017; “Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places,” Wisconsin Historical Society, last accessed June 8, 2017; Lynch, Milwaukee’

COA Youth and Family Centers

[1] Sally Kraus, A Story about the Children’s Outing Association: COA Youth and Family Centers (Milwaukee: COA Youth & Family Centers, 2006), xiii; “History,” COA Youth & Family Centers Website, accessed December 4, 2013, http://coa-yfc.org/index.php/about-us/history, now available at http://www.coa-yfc.org/mission-history/, last accessed July 13, 2017; History of COA

Commercial Fishing

[1] Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Toledo, Sandusky, Huron, and Cleveland were much larger centers of the Great Lakes commercial fishing industry. Margaret Beattie Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes: An Environmental History, 1783-1933 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 37.

[2] Bogue, Fishing the Great Lakes, 5-9; John Gurda, The Making of

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