''Cleveland Magazine'' is a monthly magazine focused on Northeastern

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, USA. It was founded in 1972. The inaugural April 1972 issue featured a young

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, a frequent profile subject of the magazine. Published monthly by the Great Lakes Publishing Company, it features articles on dining, travel & leisure and arts & entertainment in

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. Its editor is Dillon Stewart, and its publisher is Denise Polverine. It is a member of the

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(CRMA).

Rating the suburbs

Its most popular issue is the annual "Rating the Suburbs," which examines which communities in

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are best suited to live in based on values such as quality of schools, proximity to hospitals, crime rankings and home values. Critics say the rankings are biased towards newer, outer ring

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s in the city of

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proper are not ranked at all, which critics suggest perpetuates the stereotype that Cleveland is not livable. The top-ranked suburb for 2017 was

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.Rating the Suburbs 2017
''Cleveland Magazine''. June 2017.

References

External links

clevelandmagazine.com
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