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downtown Milwaukee
After World War II, as African Americans migrated to factory jobs along the Great
Lakes,Milwaukee'sAfricanAmericanpopulationreached17percentwithinthreedecades.
Unfortunately, Milwaukee remained one of the nation's most segregated cities, as the riots
and marches of the 1960s demonstrated.
Lucrative factory days waned, and the central city declined. Exhaustive machinations to
overhaul the downtown began in the mid-1980s, in a careful gentrification. The city's at-
tempts to overhaul its image have worked: In all, tourism in Milwaukee generates around
$2 billion, accounting for more than 20 percent of the state economy.
Milwaukeeisgreatforaday,aweekend,orevenafewdays.Muchofeverythingdowntown
is walkable (and use the skywalks downtown in winter!). Even better, traffic off the inter-
states is rarely bad and you've almost always got a nice lake view.
If you're blowing through in one day, make an effort to stop in and ogle the amazing
Milwaukee Art Museum
, see
Discovery World
and
Historic Third Ward
, or check out
