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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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This is due in part to the city's natural boundaries, including the Kinnickinnic and Milwaukee rivers, and the half-mile wide Menomonee River Valley, which separates the north and south sides of the city.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The museum was created in 1882 when the City of Milwaukee accepted some 20,000 objects and specimens from the Natural History Society of Wisconsin for the purpose of creating a public museum.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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He is currently representing the mayors of Milwaukee and three other cities, who challenge the constitutionality of a statutory freeze on assessments of agricultural land.
Milwaukee, which serves most of the students of color in Wisconsin, has fallen victim to many of the same funding inequities, and many other big cities nationwide are in the same boat.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Organized in 1993, this Pathways to Teaching Careers program seeks to increase the number of exemplary teachers in Milwaukee's inner-city schools and targets applicants from underrepresented groups.
Milwaukee's private school choice program has pushed the city's public elementary schools to improve, according to Harvard University economist Caroline Hoxby.
The Irish represented Milwaukee's second-largest immigrant group in the city's early days, accounting for 14 percent of the population in 1850.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The purpose of the String Academy's Inner City Music Program is to seek out, enroll, and retain at-risk children from Milwaukee's central city area and to integrate them into the professional environment of the String Academy.
The Technology Learning Centers are located in several churches around Milwaukee's inner-city to provide after-school and summer training in information technology tools for children and adults that may not otherwise have this access.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Ken Fry, Milwaukee's former commissioner of city development, became CUED's executive director in November 1972.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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One way to appreciate Milwaukee's historical heritage is to view the many architectural treasures that can be found throughout the city and surrounding counties.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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When the Great Chicago Fire destroyed the Windy City's breweries, an overnight market was created for Milwaukee's beer barons.
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