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Milwaukee's most famous music venue is Summerfest. Founded in 1968, Summerfest features 700–800 live musical acts across 12 stages during 11 days over a 12-day period beginning in late June; while the dates adjust each year, Summerfest always includes July 4. On the Summerfest grounds, the largest venue is the American Family Insurance Amphitheater with a 23,000 person capacity. Adjacent is the BMO Harris Pavilion, which has a capacity of roughly 10,000. The BMO Harris Pavilion also hosts numerous concerts and events outside of Summerfest; other stages are also used during the numerous other festivals held on the grounds. Official Brew City Map". visitmilwaukee.org. Archived from the original on August 17, 2021 . Retrieved August 17, 2021. Extraordinary building boom is reshaping Milwaukee's skyline". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . Retrieved March 21, 2017.a b Conzen, Kathleen Neils. Immigrant Milwaukee, 1836–1860. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1976. Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org . Retrieved November 11, 2020. Geenen, Paul H. (2006). Milwaukee's Bronzeville, 1900–1950. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-4061-0.

In addition to Miller and the heavily automated Leinenkugel's brewery in the old Blatz 10th Street plant, other stand-alone breweries in Milwaukee include Milwaukee Brewing Company, a microbrewery in Walker's Point neighborhood; Lakefront Brewery, a microbrewery in Brewers Hill; and Sprecher Brewery, a German brewery that also brews craft sodas. Since 2015, nearly two dozen craft brewing companies have been established in the city. [120] [121] Bright, William (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p.284. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.In the second half of the 18th century, the Native Americans living near Milwaukee played a role in all the major European wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of "Ojibwas and Pottawattamies from the far [Lake] Michigan" (i.e., the area from Milwaukee to Green Bay) joined the French-Canadian Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu at the Battle of the Monongahela. [36] In the American Revolutionary War, the Native Americans around Milwaukee were some of the few groups to ally with the rebel Continentals. [37] a b Foltman, Leah; Jones, Malia (February 28, 2019). "How Redlining Continues To Shape Racial Segregation In Milwaukee". Wiscontext. PBS Wisconsin/Wisconsin Public Radio.

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The American sitcom, Laverne & Shirley, a spin-off of Happy Days, which played for eight seasons on ABC from January 27, 1976, to May 10, 1983, followed the lives of Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, two friends and roommates who work as bottle-cappers in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s Milwaukee. Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons stands 550 feet (170m) tall and has 32 stories, making it the second tallest building in Milwaukee. [228] [229] Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. "A Center of German Culture, Milwaukee, Wisconsin". gamhof.org . Retrieved August 17, 2021.