This article is about the town/city in Minnesota.
Minneapolis, Minnesota City of Minneapolis Clockwise from Top Left: Downtown Minneapolis at evening, U.S.
Clockwise from Top Left: Downtown Minneapolis at evening, U.S.
Flag of Minneapolis, Minnesota Flag Official seal of Minneapolis, Minnesota Official logo of Minneapolis, Minnesota Nickname(s): "City of Lakes", "Mill City", "Twin Cities" (a nickname shared with Saint Paul), "Mini Apple" Minneapolis, Minnesota is positioned in the US Minneapolis, Minnesota - Minneapolis, Minnesota Body Minneapolis City Council Minneapolis (Listeni/ m ni p l s/) is the governmental center of county of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest urbane region in the United States with a populace of nearly 4 million citizens . As of 2015, Minneapolis is the biggest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th-largest in the United States with a populace of 410,939 inside the town/city proper. Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital.
The town/city and encircling region is the major company center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper including America's fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the global economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its strong music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue eveningclub.
The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippi's west bank.
Minneapolis incorporated as a town/city in 1867, the year rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago.
Millers have used hydropower elsewhere since the 1st century B.C., but the results in Minneapolis between 1880 and 1930 were so remarkable the town/city has been described as "the greatest direct-drive waterpower center the world has ever seen." Pillsbury Company athwart the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The difficult red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable ($.50 profit per barrel in 1871 increased to $4.50 in 1874,) and Minnesota "patent" flour was recognized at the time as the best in the world. Known initially as a kindly physician, Doc Ames led the town/city into corruption amid four terms as mayor just before 1900. The gangster Kid Cann was famous for bribery and intimidation amid the 1930s and 1940s. The town/city made dramatic shifts to rectify discrimination as early as 1886 when Martha Ripley established Maternity Hospital for both married and unmarried mothers. When the country's fortunes turned amid the Great Depression, the violent Teamsters Strike of 1934 resulted in laws acknowledging workers' rights. A lifelong civil rights activist and union supporter, mayor Hubert Humphrey helped the town/city establish fair employment practices and a human relations council that interceded on behalf of minorities by 1946. In the 1950s, about 1.6% of the populace of Minneapolis was nonwhite. Minneapolis contended with white supremacy, participated in desegregation and the civil rights movement, and in 1968 was the place of birth of the American Indian Movement. During the 1950s and 1960s, as part of urban renewal, the town/city razed about 200 buildings athwart 25 town/city blocks (roughly 40% of downtown), destroying the Gateway District and many buildings with notable architecture, including the Metropolitan Building.
Today the Minnesota Historical Society's Mill City Museum is in the Washburn "A" Mill, athwart the river just to the left of the falls.
The tall building is Minneapolis City Hall.
Main articles: Climate of Minnesota, Climate of the Twin Cities, and Geography of Minneapolis The history and economic expansion of Minneapolis are tied to water, the city's defining physical characteristic, which was brought to the region amid the last ice age ten thousand years ago.
Lying on an artesian aquifer and flat terrain, Minneapolis has a total region of 58.4 square miles (151.3 km2) and of this 6% is water. Water supply is managed by four watershed districts that correspond to the Mississippi and the city's three creeks. Twelve lakes, three large ponds, and five unnamed wetlands are inside Minneapolis. The town/city center is positioned at 45 N latitude. The city's lowest altitude of 686 feet (209 m) is near where Minnehaha Creek meets the Mississippi River.
The Minneapolis horizon seen from the Prospect Park Water Tower in July 2014 Minneapolis has a hot-summer humid continental climate zone (Dfa in the Koppen climate classification), typical of southern parts of the Upper Midwest, and is situated in USDA plant hardiness zone 4b, with small enclaves of the town/city classified as being zone 5a. As is typical in a continental climate, the difference between average temperatures in the coldest winter month and the warmest summer month is great: 60.1 F (33.4 C).
Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 8.4 6.8 5.4 2.0 0.1 0 0 0 0 0.6 5.2 9.3 37.8 White Americans make up about three-fifths of Minneapolis's population.
There are 39,103 Norwegian Americans, making up 10.9% of the population; there are 30,349 Swedish Americans, making up 8.5% of the city's population.
This means that ethnic Germans and Scandinavians together make up 43.8% of Minneapolis's population, and make up the majority of Minneapolis's non-Hispanic white population.
Lastly, citizens of black and Native American lineage number at 885, and make up 0.2% of Minneapolis's population.
Anthony Falls. New pioneer appeared amid the 1850s and 1860s in Minneapolis from New England, New York, and Canada, and amid the mid-1860s, immigrants from Finland and Scandinavians (from Sweden, Norway and Denmark) began to call the town/city home.
Cities as of 2006, Minneapolis has the fourth-highest percentage of gay, lesbian, or bisexual citizens in the adult population, with 12.5% (behind San Francisco, and slightly behind both Seattle and Atlanta). In 2012, The Advocate titled Minneapolis the seventh gayest town/city in America. In 2013, the town/city was among 25 U.S.
The Dakota citizens , the initial inhabitants of the region where Minneapolis now stands, believed in the Great Spirit and were surprised that not all European pioneer were religious. Over fifty denominations and religions and some well known churches have since been established in Minneapolis.
Those who appeared from New England were for the most part Christian Protestants, Quakers, and Universalists. The earliest continuously used church in the city, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the Nicollet Island/East Bank neighborhood, was assembled in 1856 by Universalists and soon afterward was acquired by a French Catholic congregation. The first Jewish congregation in Minneapolis was formed in 1878 as Shaarai Tov (though it has been known since 1920 as Temple Israel); in 1928, it assembled the Jewish house of worship in East Isles. St.
Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church on Hennepin Avenue just south of downtown. The first basilica in the United States, and Co-Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the Basilica of Saint Mary near Loring Park was titled by Pope Pius XI in 1926. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Decision magazine, and World Wide Pictures film and tv distribution were headquartered in Minneapolis between the late 1940s into the 2000s. Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye met while attending the Pentecostal North Central University and began a tv ministry that by the 1980s reached 13.5 million homeholds. Today, Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in southwest Minneapolis with about 6,000 attendees is the nation's second-largest Lutheran congregation. Christ Church Lutheran in the Longfellow neighborhood is among the finest work by architect Eliel Saarinen.
By 2004, between 20,000 and 30,000 Somali Muslims made the town/city their home. In 1972, Dainin Katagiri was invited from California to Minneapolis by one account, a place he thought nobody else would want to go where he established a lineage which today includes three Soto Zen centers among the city's nearly 20 Buddhist and meditation centers. Atheists For Human Rights has its command posts in the Shingle Creek neighborhood in a geodesic dome. Minneapolis has had a chartered small-town body of Ordo Templi Orientis since 1994. Five Fortune 500 corporations make their command posts inside the town/city limits of Minneapolis: Target, U.S.
Bancorp, Xcel Energy, City of Minneapolis, RBC Wealth Management, the Star Tribune, Capella Education Company, Thrivent, Century - Link, ABM Industries, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Availability of Wi-Fi, transit solutions, medical trials, college research and evolution expenditures, advanced degrees held by the work force, and energy conservation are so far above the nationwide average that in 2005, Popular Science titled Minneapolis the "Top Tech City" in the U.S. The Twin Cities was ranked as the country's second best town/city in a 2006 Kiplinger's poll of Smart Places to Live and Minneapolis was one of the Seven Cool Cities for young professionals. The Twin Cities contribute 63.8% of the gross state product of Minnesota.
Measured by gross urbane product per resident ($62,054), Minneapolis is the fifteenth richest town/city in the U.S. The area's $199.6 billion gross urbane product and its per capita personal income project thirteenth in the U.S. Recovering from the nation's recession in 2000, personal income interval 3.8% in 2005, though it was behind the nationwide average of 5%.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, serves Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan.
Minneapolis' cultural organizations draw creative citizens and audiences to the town/city for theater, visual art, writing and music.
The size of the Center was doubled with an addition in 2005 by Herzog & de Meuron, and period with the conversion of a 15 acres (6.1 ha) park designed by Michel Desvigne, positioned athwart the street from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Minneapolis Institute of Art, designed by Mc - Kim, Mead & White in 1915 in south central Minneapolis, is the biggest art exhibition in the city, with 100,000 pieces in its permanent collection.
USA Today voted the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District as the nation's best art precinct in 2015, citing 400 autonomous artists, a center at the Northrup King Building, and recurring annual affairs like Art-A-Whirl every spring, and the Fine Arts Show Art Attack and Casket Arts Quad's Cache open studio affairs in November. The town/city is second only to New York City in terms of live theater per capita and is the third-largest theater market in the U.S., after New York City and Chicago.
The Guthrie Theater, the area's biggest theater company, is situated in a three-stage complex overlooking the Mississippi, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. The business was established in 1963 as a prototype alternative to Broadway, and it produces a wide range of shows throughout the year. Minneapolis purchased and renovated the Orpheum, State, and Pantages Theatres vaudeville and film homes on Hennepin Avenue, which is now used for concerts and plays. A fourth renovated theater, the former Shubert, joined with the Hennepin Center for the Arts to turn into the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, home to more than one dozen performing arts groups. The town/city is home to Minnesota Fringe Festival, the biggest nonjuried performing arts festival in the U.S. Recording artist Prince studied at the Minnesota Dance Theatre through the Minneapolis Public Schools. The son of a jazz musician and a singer, Prince was born in Minneapolis, lived in the region most of his life, and became Rolling Stone's 27th greatest artist of the modern era. With fellow small-town musicians, many of whom recorded at Twin/Tone Records, he helped make First Avenue and the 7th Street Entry prominent venues for both artists and audiences. Other prominent artists from Minneapolis include Husker Du and The Replacements who were pivotal in the U.S.
Tom Waits released two music about the city, "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" (Blue Valentine (1978)) and "9th & Hennepin" (Rain Dogs (1985)), while Lucinda Williams recorded "Minneapolis" (World Without Tears (2003)).
Home to the MN Spoken Word Association and autonomous hip hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment, the town/city has garnered consideration for rap, hip hop and its spoken word community. Underground Minnesota hip hop acts like Atmosphere and Manny Phesto incessantly comment about the town/city and Minnesota in song lyrics. Minneapolis is the third-most literate town/city in the U.S. A center for printing and publishing, Minneapolis was the town/city in which Open Book, the biggest literary and book arts center in the U.S., was founded.
The Center consists of the Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and Milkweed Editions (the latter is sometimes called the country's biggest autonomous nonprofit literary publisher). The Center exhibits and teaches both intact art and traditional crafts of writing, papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding. Philanthropy and charitable giving are part of the community. More than 40% of grownups in the Minneapolis Saint Paul region give time to volunteer work, the highest such percentage of any large urbane region in the United States. Catholic Charities USA is one of the biggest providers of civil services locally. The American Refugee Committee helps 2.5 million refugees and displaced persons in ten countries in Africa and Asia each year. In 2011, Target Corporation was #42 in a list of the best 100 corporate people in CR periodical for corporate responsibility officers. The earliest foundation in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Foundation invests and administers over nine hundred charitable funds and joins donors to nonprofit organizations. The urbane region gives 13% of its total charitable donations to the arts and culture.
She said Minneapolis chefs served trendy Nordic ingredients like root vegetables, fish roe, wild greens, venison, dried mushrooms, seaweed and cow's milk. Two months later, Bon Appetit featured the Bachelor Farmer, Piccolo, Saffron, Salty Tart, and Smack Shack/1029 Bar, writing about New Nordic cuisine and the Scandinavian tradition of Minneapolis. In 2012 Food & Wine periodical titled Minneapolis the nation's best and best-priced new food city. In 2015, profiling chef Gavin Kaysen and Spoon and Stable, Saveur titled Minneapolis "the next great American food city." Then, Food & Wine voted Spoon and Stable one of five 2015 restaurants of the year. USA Today's reader's choice 10 Best decided that Minneapolis Saint Paul was the Best Local Food Scene in 2015. Four fine dining restaurants closed amid 2015 and 2016: La Belle Vie, Vincent, Brasserie Zentral, and Saffron. Food & Wine titled Brewer's Table at Surly Brewing one of its ten 2016 restaurants of the year. Also in 2016, Food & Wine titled Eat Street Social, Constantine, and Coup d'Etat three of the best cocktail bars in the U.S. Young Joni was chose one of the GQ top ten new restaurants of 2017. Main articles: Sports in Minneapolis Saint Paul and Sports in Minnesota In recent years, the Minnesota Lynx have been the most prosperous sports team in the town/city and a dominant force in the WNBA, reaching the WNBA Finals in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2016 and winning in 2011, 2013, and 2015. The Minnesota Timberwolves brought NBA basketball back to Minneapolis in 1989, followed by the Lynx in 1999.
The Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Twins have played in the state since 1961.
Paul at the Xcel Energy Center. The experienced soccer team Minnesota United FC of the NASL played in suburban Blaine at the National Sports Center through 2016. In 2017, the team joined the MLS and play the 2017 season in the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium, and then will relocate to St.
During the 1920s, Minneapolis was home to the NFL team the Minneapolis Marines, later known as the Minneapolis Red Jackets. During the 1940s and 1950s the Minneapolis Lakers basketball team, the city's first in the primary leagues in any sport, won six basketball championships in three leagues to turn into the NBA's first dynasty before moving to Los Angeles. The American Wrestling Association, formerly the NWA Minneapolis Boxing & Wrestling Club, directed in Minneapolis from 1960 until the 1990s. Called "Minnesota's biggest-ever enhance works project," the stadium opened in 2016 with 66,000 seats, expandable to 70,000 for the 2018 Super Bowl. Two thousand high-definition televisions are dominated by two scoreboards, the league's 10th largest, that together measure 12,560 square feet (1,167 m2) and are each larger than a town/city home lot. Thanks to a state of the art Wi-Fi network, fans can order food and drink and have them bringed to their seats or ready for pickup. A Vikings' vice president thought that the Vikings' Longhouse bar and concessions region and The Commons park could be attractions to those without football tickets. Season tickets sold out before the football season began. U.S.
Humphrey Metrodome, completed beginning in January 2014, was the biggest sports stadium in Minnesota from 1982 to 2013. Major sporting affairs hosted by the town/city include the 1985 and 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Games, the 1987 and 1991 World Series, Super Bowl XXVI in 1992, the 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Final Four, the 2001 NCAA Men's Division 1 Final Four and the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships. Minneapolis has made it to the global round finals to host the Summer Olympic Games three times, being beaten by London in 1948, Helsinki in 1952 (when the town/city rather than in second place), and Melbourne in 1956.
The Minneapolis park fitness has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America. Foresight, donations and accomplishment by improve leaders enabled Horace Cleveland to problematic his finest landscape architecture, preserving geographical landmarks and linking them with boulevards and parkways. The city's Chain of Lakes, consisting of seven lakes and Minnehaha Creek, is connected by bike, running, and walking paths and used for swimming, fishing, picnics, boating, and ice skating.
Theodore Wirth is credited with the evolution of the parks system. Today, 16.6% of the town/city is parks and there are 770 square feet (72 m2) of parkland for each resident, ranked in 2008 as the most parkland per resident inside metros/cities of similar populace densities. In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that Minneapolis had the best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
Wirth Park is shared with Golden Valley and is about 60% the size of Central Park in New York City. Site of the 53-foot (16 m) Minnehaha Falls, Minnehaha Park is one of the city's earliest and most prominent parks, receiving over 500,000 visitors each year. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow titled Hiawatha's wife Minnehaha for the Minneapolis waterfall in The Song of Hiawatha, a bestselling and often-parodied 19th century poem. Runner's World rates the Twin Cities as America's sixth best town/city for runners. Team Ortho sponsors the Minneapolis Marathon, Half Marathon and 5 - K which began in 2009 with more than 1,500 starters. The Twin Cities Marathon run in Minneapolis and Saint Paul every October draws 250,000 spectators.
The American College of Sports Medicine ranked Minneapolis and its urbane region the nation's first, second, or third "fittest city" every year from 2008 to 2016, ranking it first from 2011 to 2013. In other sports, five golf courses are positioned inside the city, with the nationally ranked Hazeltine National Golf Club and Interlachen Country Club in close-by suburbs. Minneapolis is home to more golfers per capita than any other primary U.S.
Hennepin County has the second-highest number of horses per capita in the U.S. While living in Minneapolis, Scott and Brennan Olson established (and later sold) Rollerblade, the business that popularized the sport of inline skating. Main articles: Minneapolis City Council, Neighborhoods of Minneapolis, and Law and government of Minneapolis Spring art party, North Commons Park, Willard-Hay, one of the eighty one neighborhoods of Minneapolis Minneapolis is a stronghold for the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL), an partner of the Democratic Party.
The Minneapolis City Council holds the most power and represents the city's thirteen districts called wards.
The town/city adopted instant-runoff voting in 2006, first using it in the 2009 elections. The council has 12 DFL members and one from the Green Party. Election issues in 2013 encompassed funding for a new Vikings stadium over which some incumbents lost their positions. That year, Minneapolis propel Abdi Warsame, Alondra Cano, and Blong Yang, the city's first Somali-American, Mexican-American, and Hmong-American town/city councilpeople, in the order given. At the federal level, Minneapolis proper sits inside Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which has been represented since 2006 by Democrat Keith Ellison, the first practicing Muslim in the United States Congress.
The organizers of Earth Day scored Minneapolis ninth best overall and second among mid-sized metros/cities in their 2007 Urban Environment Report, a study based on indicators of surroundingal community and their effect on citizens . Minneapolis City Hall The Minneapolis Police Department imported a computer fitness from New York City that sent officers to high crime areas.
News & World Report said in 2011 that Minneapolis tied with Cleveland, Ohio as the 10th most dangerous town/city in the United States. The City Council passed a resolution in March 2015 making fossil fuel divestment town/city policy. With encouragement from Mayor Hodges, Minneapolis joined seventeen metros/cities worldwide in the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance.
Main articles: Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis Public Schools, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, and University of Minnesota Minneapolis Public Schools enroll 36,370 students in enhance major and secondary schools.
Students speak 90 different languages at home and most school communications are printed in English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali. About 44% of students in the Minneapolis Public School fitness graduate, which rates the 6th worst out of the nation's 50 biggest cities. Some students attend enhance schools in other school districts chosen by their families under Minnesota's open enrollment statute. Besides enhance schools, the town/city is home to more than 20 private schools and academies and about 20 additional charter schools. Minneapolis' collegiate scene is dominated by the chief campus of the University of Minnesota where more than 50,000 undergraduate, graduate, and experienced students attend 20 colleges, schools, and institutes. The graduate school programs ranked highest in 2007 were counseling and personnel services, chemical engineering, psychology, macroeconomics, applied mathematics and non-profit management. A Big Ten school and home of the Golden Gophers, the University of Minnesota is the fourth biggest campus among U.S.
As of 2010, the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis ground above) has the fourth-largest student body of U.S.
Augsburg College, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and North Central University are private four-year colleges.
Minneapolis Community and Technical College, the private Dunwoody College of Technology, Globe University/Minnesota School of Business, and Art Institutes International Minnesota furnish longterm position training.
Mary's University of Minnesota has a Twin Cities ground for its graduate and experienced programs.
Capella University, Minnesota School of Professional Psychology, and Walden University are headquartered in Minneapolis and some the rest including the enhance four-year Metropolitan State University and the private four-year University of St.
The Hennepin County Library fitness began to operate the city's enhance libraries in 2008. The Minneapolis Public Library, established by T.
Walker in 1885, faced a harsh budget shortfall for 2007, and was forced to temporarily close three of its neighborhood libraries. The new downtown Central Library designed by Cesar Pelli opened in 2006. Ten special collections hold over 25,000 books and resources for researchers, including the Minneapolis Collection and the Minneapolis Photo Collection. At recent count 1,696,453 items in the fitness are used annually and the library answers over 500,000 research and fact-finding questions each year. Five primary newspapers are presented in Minneapolis: Star Tribune, Finance and Commerce, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, the university's The Minnesota Daily and Minn - Post.com.
Other publications are the City Pages weekly, the Mpls.St.Paul and Minnesota Monthly monthlies, and Utne magazine. In 2008 readers of online news also used The Up - Take, Minnesota Independent, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Downtown Journal, Cursor, MNSpeak and about fifteen other sites. Minneapolis has a mix of airways broadcasts and healthy listener support for enhance radio.
Listeners support three Minnesota Public Radio non-profit stations and two improve non-profit stations, the Minneapolis Public Schools and the University of Minnesota each operate a station, and theological organizations run four stations. A number of movies have been shot in Minneapolis, including The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Ice Castles (1978), Take This Job and Shove It (1981), Purple Rain (1984), That Was Then, This Is Now (1985), The Mighty Ducks (1992), Untamed Heart (1993), Beautiful Girls (1996), Jingle All the Way (1996), Fargo (1996), and Young Adult (2011). In television, two episodes of Route 66 were shot in Minneapolis in 1963 (and broadcast in 1963 and 1964). The 1970s CBS situation comedy fictionally based in Minneapolis, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, won three Golden Globes and 31 Emmy Awards. Half of Minneapolis Saint Paul inhabitants work in the town/city where they live. Most inhabitants drive cars but 60% of the 160,000 citizens working downtown commute by means other than a single person per auto. Alternative transit is encouraged.
Minneapolis' second light rail line, the METRO Green Line shares stations with the Blue Line in downtown Minneapolis, and then at the Downtown East station, travels east through the University of Minnesota, and then along University Avenue into downtown Saint Paul.
Minneapolis rates 27th in the country for the highest percentage of commuters by bicycle, and was editorialized as the top bicycling town/city in "Bicycling's Top 50" ranking in 2010. Ten thousand cyclists use the bike lanes in the town/city each day, and many ride in the winter.
Minneapolis also has 34 miles (54 km) of dedicated bike lanes on town/city streets and encourages cycling by equipping transit buses with bike racks and by providing online bicycle maps. Many of these trails and bridges, such as the Stone Arch Bridge, were former barns lines that have now been converted for bicycles and pedestrians. In 2007 citing the city's bicycle lanes, buses and LRT, Forbes identified Minneapolis the world's fifth cleanest city. In 2010, Nice Ride Minnesota launched with 65 kiosks for bicycle sharing, and 19 pedicabs were operating downtown. In 2016, Nice Ride period to 171 stations and 1,833 bikes supplied by PBSC Urban Solutions, a Canadian company. A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked Minneapolis the ninth most walkable of 50 biggest cities in the United States. Seven miles (11 km) of enclosed pedestrian bridges called skyways, the Minneapolis Skyway System, link eighty town/city blocks downtown.
Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) sits on 3,400 acres (1,400 ha) on the southeast border of the town/city between Minnesota State Highway 5, Interstate 494, Minnesota State Highway 77, and Minnesota State Highway 62.
Minneapolis has seven hospitals, four ranked among America's best by U.S.
News & World Report Abbott Northwestern Hospital (part of Allina), Children's Hospitals and Clinics, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Allina's Phillips Eye Institute also serve the city. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is a 75-minute drive away. HCMC opened in 1887 as City Hospital and was also known as General Hospital. A enhance teaching hospital and Level I trauma center, the HCMC safety net counted 596,397 clinic visits and 109,876 emergency and urgent care visits in 2015. In before years responsible for about 18% of Minnesota's uncompensated care, HCMC provided much less uncompensated care in 2014 because, after the Affordable Care Act came into effect, its charity care declined more than bad debt went up. Utility providers are regulated monopolies: Xcel Energy supplies electricity, Center - Point Energy supplies gas, Century - Link provides landline telephone service, and Comcast provides cable service. In 2007 citywide wireless internet coverage began, provided for 10 years by US Internet of Minnetonka to inhabitants for about $20 per month and to businesses for $30. The Minneapolis Wi-Fi network earns $1.2 million annual profit and as of 2010 has about 20,000 customers. The town/city treats and distributes water and requires payment of a monthly solid waste fee for trash removal, recycling, and drop off for large items.
Hazardous waste is handled by Hennepin County drop off sites. After each momentous snowfall, called a snow emergency, the Minneapolis Public Works Street Division plows over 1,000 miles (1,609 km) of streets and 400 miles (643.7 km) of alleys counting both sides, the distance between Minneapolis and Seattle and back.
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