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Southwest Detroit
Southwest Detroit is a neighborhood within Detroit. Clark Park is a popular park within the Hubbard Farms area of southwest Detroit (not to be confused with the similarly named Clark Park in Philadelphia). It is also well known for Mexicantown, Detroit's vibrant Mexican community. Economy Southwest Detroit has many independent grocery stores. In particular Southwest Detroit has several Hispanic supermarkets, or ''supermercados'', that stock meat, specialty produce, and tortillas. Education Residents are within Detroit Public Schools and are zoned to Western International High School oCesar Chavez High schoolwith the added option of attendinDetroit Cristo Rey High Schoolwhich is a private, catholic college prep school. . Previously Southwestern High School was in Southwest Detroit. Southwestern closed in 2012,Foley, Aaron.Closing southwest Detroit schools would be devastating, protesters say" ''MLive''. Saturday February 25, 2012. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. and students were r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area, and the 14th-largest in the United States. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive background. ''Time'' named Detroit as one of the fifty World's Greatest Places of 2022 to explore. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Park
Clark Park is a municipal park in the Spruce Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Spruce Hill section of West Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its are bordered by 43rd and 45th streets, and by Baltimore Avenue, Baltimore and Woodland Avenues. The park was established in 1895 on land donated to the city by banker and West Philadelphia developer Clarence Howard Clark, and was known in its early decades as "Clarence H. Clark Park". Today, the park has a basketball court, playground, an open field, and many paths. It holds a life-sized Dickens and Little Nell (Elwell), 1890 sculpture of Charles Dickens, one of just two known statues of the author. It is home to the Shakespeare In The Park Festivals#Shakespeare in Clark Park, Shakespeare in Clark Park theatre company. The park also hosts Philadelphia's largest year-round farmers' market, which runs once or twice a week, depending on the season. History 19th century During the American Civil War, a small portion of the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and one of world's largest metropolitan regions, with 6.245 million residents . The city's population at the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within of Philadelphia. Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's inde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexicantown
Mexicantown is a List of neighborhoods in Detroit, neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan.Mcewen, Meghan.Mexicantown Visiting Guide" ''Model D (magazine), Model D''. Tuesday February 28, 2006. Andrew Eckhous, a columnist for the ''Michigan Daily'', said that Mexicantown was "one of Detroit’s most vibrant communities". John Gallagher of the ''Detroit Free Press'' said that the commercial activity on West Vernor in Mexicantown is an example of what the Detroit Future City report suggested as something to replicate throughout the city. History Detroit's Mexican population began settling in Mexicantown in the 1920s. The Mexican community established itself on Vernor Street.Denvir, Daniel.The Paradox of Mexicantown: Detroit's Uncomfortable Relationship With the Immigrants it Desperately Needs"Archive ''The Atlantic Cities''. September 24, 2012. Retrieved on January 15, 2013. The community was originally known as "La Bagley".Bonisteel, Sara.In Detroit, It's the Mexicans Welcoming V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MLive
MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan. Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976. MLive Media Group newspaper publications include ''The Ann Arbor News'',''The Bay City Times'', ''The Flint Journal'', ''The Grand Rapids Press'', ''Jackson Citizen Patriot'', ''Kalamazoo Gazette'', ''Muskegon Chronicle'', ''The Saginaw News'', and ''Advance Newspapers''. The company also maintains newsrooms in Lansing and Detroit. All of Advance Publications' Michigan content is published on Mlive.com. History Early history Booth Newspapers was founded by George Gough Booth and his brothers in 1893 and was a media company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1976, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. of Advance Publications acquired Booth Newspapers for $305 million, the . The Herald Company, Inc. me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Free Press
The ''Detroit Free Press'' is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the ''Sunday Free Press''. It is sometimes referred to as the Freep (reflected in the paper's web address, www.freep.com). It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties. The ''Free Press'' is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes ''USA Today''. The ''Free Press'' has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards. Its motto is "On Guard for Years". In 2018, the ''Detroit Free Press'' received two Salute to Excellence awards from the National Association of Black Journalists. History 1831–1989: Competitive newspaper The newspaper was launched by John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, and was first published as the ''Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer'' on May 5, 1831. It was renamed to ''Detroit Daily Free Press'' in 1835, becoming the region's first daily newsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Public Schools
Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is a school district that covers all of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States and high school students in the insular city of Highland Park. The district, which replaced the original Detroit Public Schools (DPS) in 2016, provides services to approximately 50,000 students, making it the largest school district in the state. The district has its headquarters in the Fisher Building of the New Center area of Detroit. The school district has experienced extensive financial difficulties over a series of years. From 1999 to 2005, and from 2009 to the reorganization in 2016, the district was overseen by a succession of state-appointed emergency financial managers. History The district was established in 1842, and has grown with the city. Some of the schools in the district began as part of other school districts, including Greenfield Township and Springwells Township districts, as the areas these districts covered were annex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western International High School
Western International High School is a public high school, located across from Clark Park, within southwest Detroit's Mexicantown. Western is operated by the Detroit Public Schools system. As of 2012, it was the final remaining public high school in southwestern Detroit.Foley, Aaron.Closing southwest Detroit schools would be devastating, protesters say. ''MLive''. Saturday February 25, 2012. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. Western serves Mexicantown, Boynton–Oakwood Heights, Delray, and Springwells Village. History The school opened in 1898 as "Western High School." The Webster School held high school classes on a temporary basis until Western was built. On 26 February 1935 Western High School's campus was destroyed by a fire.Mirel, Jeffrey. '' The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-81'' (Ann Arbor paperbacks). University of Michigan Press, 1999. , 9780472086498. p188 Western received a new campus as part of the Public Works Administration projects.Mirel, Jef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southwestern High School (Michigan)
Southwestern High School was a high school in Southwest Detroit, Michigan. It is part of the Detroit Public Schools district. The school's area, Southwest Detroit, has the majority of Detroit's Latino population.Foley, Aaron.Closing southwest Detroit schools would be devastating, protesters say" ''MLive''. Saturday February 25, 2012. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. The school was located in a three-story building.Satyanarayana, Megha.Contents of Southwestern High School go up for sale online today" ''Detroit Free Press''. October 18, 2012. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. It closed in 2012. The school served Boynton–Oakwood Heights, Delray, and Springwells from September 1916 until June 2012. History John A. Nordstrum High School was built in 1915 and began its first semester in September 1916, although the desks had yet to arrive. They were still in a railroad boxcar that had been lost amongst Detroit's vast railyards. But it was overcrowded within a few years so Southwestern High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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