Grand Rapids, Michigan "Grand Rapids"
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Grand Rapids, Michigan City of Grand Rapids Ford Presidential Museum,La Grande Vitesse, pedestrian bridge over the Grand River, Van Andel Arena, Grand Valley State University's Cook De - Vos Center on the Medical Mile La Grande Vitesse, pedestrian bridge over the Grand River, Van Andel Arena, Grand Valley State University's Cook De - Vos Center on the Medical Mile Flag of Grand Rapids, Michigan Flag Official seal of Grand Rapids, Michigan Official logo of Grand Rapids, Michigan Location of Grand Rapids inside Kent County, Michigan Location of Grand Rapids inside Kent County, Michigan Grand Rapids, Michigan is positioned in the US Grand Rapids, Michigan - Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids is the second-largest town/city in Michigan, and the biggest city in West Michigan.
In 2010, the Grand Rapids urbane region had a populace of 1,005,648, and the combined statistical region of Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland had a populace of 1,321,557.
Grand Rapids is the governmental center of county of Kent County, Michigan. A historic furniture-manufacturing center, Grand Rapids is home to five of the world's dominant office furniture companies, and is nicknamed Furniture City.
Grand Rapids is the hometown of U.S.
Over 2000 years ago, citizens associated with the Hopewell culture occupied the Grand River Valley. Later, a tribe from the Ottawa River traveled to the Grand River valley, fighting three battles with the Prairie Indians who were established in the area. The tribe later split, with the Chippewas settling in the northern lower peninsula, the Pottawatomies staying south of the Kalamazoo River and the Ottawa staying in central Michigan. By the late 1600s, the Ottawa, who occupied territory around the Great Lakes and spoke one of the various Algonquian languages, moved into the Grand Rapids region and established several villages along the Grand River. The Ottawa established on the river, which they called O-wash-ta-nong, or far-away-water due to the river's length, where they "raised corn, melons, pumpkins and beans, to which they added game of the woods and the fish from the streams". In 1806, Joseph and his wife Madeline La Framboise, who was Metis, traveled by canoe from Mackinac and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now Ada Township.
After the murder of her husband in 1809 while en route to Grand Rapids, Madeline La Framboise carried on the trade business, expanding fur trading posts to the west and north, creating a good reputation among the American Fur Company.
Madeline La Framboise retired the trading post to Rix Robinson in 1821 and returned to Mackinac. That year, Grand Rapids was described as being the home of an Ottawa village of about 50 to 60 huts on the west side of the river near the 5th Ward, with Kewkishkam being the village chief and Chief Noonday being the chief of the Ottawa. The first permanent European-American settler in the Grand Rapids region was Isaac Mc - Coy, a Baptist minister.
General Lewis Cass, who commissioned Charles Christopher Trowbridge to establish missions for Native Americans in Michigan, ordered Mc - Coy to establish a mission in Grand Rapids for the Ottawa. In 1823, Mc - Coy, as well as Paget, a Frenchman who brought along a Native American pupil, traveled to Grand Rapids to arrange a mission, though negotiations fell through with the group returning to the Carey mission for the Potawatomi on the St.
Slater traveled with two pioneer to Grand Rapids to perform work. The winter of 1824 proved to be difficult, with Slater's group having to resupply and return before the spring. Slater then erected the first settler structures in Grand Rapids, a log cabin for himself and a log schoolhouse. In 1825, Mc - Coy returned and established a missionary station. He represented the European-American pioneer who began arriving from Ohio, New York and New England, the Yankee states of the Northern Tier.
A sketch of Grand Rapids in 1831.
Shortly after, Detroit-born Louis Campau, known as the official founder of Grand Rapids, was convinced by fur trader William Brewster, who was in a rivalry with the American Fur Company, to travel to Grand Rapids and establish trade there. In 1826, Campau assembled his cabin, trading post, and blacksmith shop on the east bank of the Grand River near the rapids, stating that the Native Americans in the region were "friendly and peaceable". Campau returned to Detroit, then returned a year later with his wife and $5,000 of trade goods to trade with the Ottawa and Ojibwa, with the only currency being fur. Campau's longer brother Touissant would often assist him with trade and other tasks at hand. That year, In 1833, a territory office was established in White Pigeon, Michigan, with Campau and fellow settler Luther Lincoln seeking territory in the Grand River valley. Lincoln purchased territory in what is now known as Grandville, while Campau became perhaps the most meaningful settler when he bought 72 acres (291,000 m ) from the federal government for $90 and titled his tract Grand Rapids.
Over time, it advanced as today's chief downtown company district. In the spring of 1833, Campau sold Joel Guild, who traveled from New York, a plot of territory for $25.00, with Guild building the first frame structure in Grand Rapids, which is now where Mc - Kay Tower stands. Guild later became the postmaster, with mail at the time being bringed monthly from the Gull Lake, Michigan to Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids in 1833 was only a several acres of territory cleared on each side of the Grand River, with oak trees planted in light, sandy soil standing between what is now Lyon Street and Fulton Street. Wilson, who was supplied with equipment from Campau. Lucius Lyon, a Yankee Protestant who would later became a rival to Campau appeared in Grand Rapids who purchased the rest of the prime land and called his plot the Village of Kent.
John Ball, representing a group of New York territory speculators, bypassed Detroit for a better deal in Grand Rapids traveling to the settlement in 1836.
Ball declared the Grand River valley "the promised land, or at least the most promising one for my operations". That year, the first steam boat was constructed on the Grand River titled the Gov.
The first Grand Rapids newspaper, The Grand River Times, was printed on April 18, 1837, describing the village's attributes, stating: The Grand River Times continued, saying the village had grown quickly from a several French families to about 1,200 residents, the Grand River was "one of the most meaningful and delightful to be found in the country", and described the changing Native American culture in the area. An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids.
The town/city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed town/city charter.
By 1857, the town/city of Grand Rapids' region totaled 10.5 square miles (27 km2).
In October 1870, Grand Rapids became a desired locale for immigrants, with about 120 Swedes arriving in the United States to travel and problematic a "colony" in the region in one week. In 1880, the country's first hydro-electric generator was put to use on the city's west side. Grand Rapids was an early center for the automobile industry, as the Austin Automobile Company directed here from 1901 until 1921.
In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first town/city in the United States to add fluoride to its drinking water.
Downtown Grand Rapids, when the center of business, used to host four department stores: Herpolsheimer's (Lazarus in 1987), Jacobson's, Steketee's (founded in 1862), and Wurzburg's.
"After an global exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, Grand Rapids became recognized around the world as a prestige in the manufacturing of fine furniture." "Grand Rapids furniture" became a byword for well-made reproductions of American and English 18th and early 19th-century styles.
Berkey Company and its successors, Baker Furniture Company, Williams-Kimp, and Widdicomb Furniture Company. The Grand Rapids Furniture Record was the trade paper for the city's industry.
A furniture-makers' guild was established in 1931 to advancement the design and craftsmanship of Grand Rapids furniture.
National home furnishing markets were held in Grand Rapids for about 75 years, concluding in the 1960s.
Although small-town employment in the trade is lower than at its historic peak, Grand Rapids remains a dominant town/city in office furniture production.
Grand Rapids advanced on the banks of the Grand River, where there was once a set of rapids, at an altitude of 610 feet (186 m) above sea level.
Grand Rapids is divided into four quadrants, which form a part of mailing addresses in Kent County.
Grand Rapids has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfa), with very warm and humid summers, cold and snowy winters, and short and mild springs and autumns.
Climate data for Grand Rapids, Michigan (Gerald Ford Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1892 present See also: List of tallest buildings in Grand Rapids The hotel features a several restaurants well known in Grand Rapids, such as Cygnus.
The horizon of Grand Rapids as seen in May 2008.
Other prominent large buildings include the JW Marriott Grand Rapids, the first JW Marriott Hotel in the Midwest.
It is themed from cityscapes of Grand Rapids' sister cities: Omihachiman, Japan; Bielsko-Biala, Poland; Perugia, Italy; Ga District, Ghana; and Zapopan, Mexico.
In 1969, Alexander Calder's abstract sculpture, La Grande Vitesse, which translates from French as "the great swiftness" or more loosely as "grand rapids", was installed downtown on the Vandenberg Plaza, the redesigned setting of Grand Rapids City Hall. It was the first work of enhance art in the United States funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then, the town/city has hosted an annual Festival of the Arts on the plaza, now known informally as "Calder Plaza". During the first weekend in June, a several blocks of downtown encircling the Calder stabile in Vandenberg Plaza are closed to traffic.
'Celebration on the Grand' is an event that jubilates life in the Grand River valley.
The Grand Rapids Public Museum stretches along the Grand River.
In 1973, Grand Rapids hosted Sculpture off the Pedestal, an outside exhibition of enhance sculpture, which assembled works by 13 world-renowned artists, including Mark di Suvero, John Henry, Kenneth Snelson, Robert Morris, John Mason, Lyman Kipp and Stephen Antonakos, in a single, citywide celebration.
On November 10, 2004, the grand premiere of the film The Polar Express was held in Grand Rapids.
His chief character in the book (and movie) also lives in Grand Rapids and the movie was set in the city.
In mid-2004, the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) began assembly of a new, larger building for its collection; it opened in October 2007 at 101 Monroe Center NW.
The first Art - Prize, the world's biggest art competition determined by enhance voting, took place in Grand Rapids from September 23 through October 10, 2009.
The first prize was awarded to Grand Rapids artist Chris La - Porte. In 2012, Grand Rapids tied with Asheville, North Carolina, for "Beer City USA".
Prominent breweries in the region such as B.O.B's Brewery, Brewery Vivant, Founders Brewing Company, Grand Rapids Brewing Co., Hideout, Hop - Cat and Schmohz have created the culture necessary to win the award. In 2013, Grand Rapids was the sole winner of "Beer City USA", taking the prize with more votes than those combined for the second-place Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the third-place Asheville, North Carolina. Grand Rapids is the home of John Ball Zoological Garden, Belknap Hill, and the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids is home to the Van Andel Museum Center.
A non-profit institution, it is owned and managed by the Public Museum of Grand Rapids Foundation.
The first "neighborhood" of Grand Rapids, its 1,300 homes date from 1848 and represent more than 60 architectural styles.
Grand Rapids is home to many theatres and stages, including the newly reconstructed Civic Theatre (also known as the Meijer Majestic), the city's biggest theatre; De - Vos Hall, and the convertible Van Andel Arena.
Studio 28, the first megaplex in the United States, is positioned in Grand Rapids; it reopened in 1988 with a seating capacity of 6,000. The megaplex ceased operations on November 23, 2008. The Grand Rapids business also owns many theaters around West Michigan.
In Grand Rapids Township, the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park combine 125 acres (1 km2) of world-class botanical plant nurseries and artwork from such American sculptors as Mark di Suvero and Alexander Calder, and French artists Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin.
In 2014, Grand Rapids was titled the No.
Other notable destinations on Lonely Planet's Top 10 list encompassed Yosemite National Park, Boston, Massachusetts, and Las Vegas, Nevada. In 2016, The New York Times ranked Grand Rapids 20th on the 52 Places to Go in 2016 list, with Grand Rapids featured among other metros/cities such as Abu Dhabi, Bordeaux and Mexico City. Grand Rapids has a number of prominent concert venues in which various bands have performed, including the Orbit Room, the DAAC, the Intersection, De - Vos Performance Hall, Van Andel Arena, Royce Auditorium in St.
The Schubert Male Chorus of Grand Rapids is considered the earliest autonomous closing male chorus in America.
The Grand Rapids Symphony, established in 1930, is the biggest performing arts organization in Grand Rapids with a roster of about 50 full-time and 30 part-time musicians.
In addition to its own concert series, the orchestra under music director Marcelo Lehninger accompanies productions by Grand Rapids Ballet and Opera Grand Rapids, presenting more than 400 performances a year. Grand Rapids Symphony The Grand Rapids Barbershop Chapter Great Lakes Chorus is an all-male a cappella barbershop harmony chorus, including quartets.
The Grand Rapids chapter organized on November 1, 1939, for quartet singers; it is credited for holding the first society-sanctioned quartet contest in the "Michigan District" (now Pioneer District) in March 1941.
In 1944 the Grand Rapids Chapter is credited with having the first International Quartet champions, "The Harmony Halls." In 1947 the Great Lakes Chorus (then called the Grand Rapids Chorus) was founded.
Grand Rapids Ballet Company was established in 1971 and is Michigan's only experienced ballet company. The ballet business is positioned on Ellsworth Avenue in the Heartside neighborhood, where it moved in 2000.
Opera Grand Rapids, established in 1966, is the state's longest-running experienced company. In February 2010, the opera moved into a new facility in the Fulton Heights neighborhood. A January 21, 2011 Newsweek article listed Grand Rapids as a "dying city." The Grand Rapids Lip - Dub, released May 26, was the first-ever citywide lip dub video; film critic Roger Ebert described it as "the greatest music video ever made". The video held the world record for biggest lip dub for two years and has amassed over 5 million views on You - Tube; PRNewswire awarded its producers the "Earnie Award" for Best Use of Video in Social Media. Grand Rapids is also home to Art Prize, the biggest art exposition in the U.S.
Van Andel Arena, a prominent sports venue in Grand Rapids.
Several experienced and semi-pro sports squads call the Grand Rapids region home: Grand Rapids Griffins Ice hockey 1996 American Hockey League Van Andel Arena Detroit Red Wings Grand Rapids FC Soccer 2014 National Premier Soccer League Houseman Field Grand Rapids Dragonfish Lacrosse 2011 Continental Indoor Lacrosse League Cedar Rock Sports Plex Grand Rapids Danger Basketball 2015 American Basketball Association Grace Bible College Grand Rapids Fusion Basketball 2014 Independent Basketball Association City High-Middle School Former experienced sports squads include Grand Rapids Rampage, Grand Rapids Hoops (Grand Rapids Mackers), Grand Rapids Flight, Grand Rapids Owls (1977 80), Grand Rapids Rockets, and Grand Rapids Chicks Each year the Fifth Third River Bank Run is held in downtown Grand Rapids.
The Grand Rapids Marathon is held in downtown Grand Rapids in mid-October, usually on the same weekend as the Detroit Marathon.
Amateur sporting organizations in the region include Grand Raggidy Roller Derby WFTDA league, Grand Rapids Rowing Association, Grand Rapids Rugby Club, and the West Michigan Wheelchair Sports Association. The West Michigan Sports Commission was the host organizing committee for the inaugural State Games of Michigan, held in Grand Rapids from June 25 to 27, 2010. Main article: Media in Grand Rapids, Michigan The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper, while Advance Newspapers prints a group of weekly papers providing community-based news.
Gemini Publications is a niche, county-wide publishing business that produces the weekly journal Grand Rapids Business Journal; the magazines Grand Rapids Magazine, Grand Rapids Family and Michigan Blue; and a several other quarterly and annual business-to-business publications.
Grand Rapids, combined with close-by Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, was ranked in 2010 as the 41st-largest tv market in the U.S.
The Grand Rapids region is served by 16 AM airways broadcasts and 28 FM stations. 7 Grand Rapids Public Schools 2,907 12 City of Grand Rapids 2,050 Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Spectrum Health is the biggest employer in West Michigan, with 23,000 staff and 1,300 physicians. Spectrum Health's Meijer Heart Center, Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion, and Butterworth Hospital, a level I trauma center, are positioned on the Grand Rapids Medical Mile, which has world-class facilities focusing on the community sciences.
These facilities include the Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Valley State University's Cook-De - Vos Center for Health Sciences, and the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine medical school's Secchia Center, along with Ferris State University's College of Pharmacy.
Grand Rapids has long been a center for furniture manufacturing.
Office furniture manufacturers like American Seating, Steelcase (and its subsidiaries Coalesse and Turnstone), Haworth, and Herman Miller are based in and around the Grand Rapids area. In 1881, the Furniture Manufacturers Association (FMA) was organized in Grand Rapids; making it the first furniture manufacturing advocacy group in the country. The Kindel Furniture Company and the Hekman Furniture Company have been designing and manufacturing furniture in Grand Rapids since 1912 and 1922 in the order given.
The Grand Rapids region is also known for its automobile and aviation manufacturing industries, with GE Aviation Systems having a locale in the city. The Grand Rapids region is home to a number of well-known companies that include: Alticor/Amway (a consumer goods manufacturer and distributor), Bissell (a privately owned vacuum cleaner and floor care product manufacturer), Highlight Industries (an trade prestige in stretch wrap equipment), Spartan - Nash (a food distributor and grocery store chain), Foremost Insurance Company (a specialty lines insurance company), Meijer (a county-wide supercenter chain), GE Aviation (formerly Smiths Industries, an aerospace products company), Wolverine World Wide (a designer and manufacturer of shoes, boots and clothing), MC Sports, Inc.
In 2010 Grand Rapids was titled the "most sustainable midsize town/city in the U.S." Grand Rapids was chosen over finalist metros/cities Davenport, Iowa and Hoover, Alabama. According to a 2007 American Community Survey, the biggest ancestry groups in Grand Rapids were those of German (23.4% of the population), Dutch (21.2%), English (15.9%), Irish (11.4%), Polish (6.5%) and French (5.1%) heritage. In recent decades, Grand Rapids and its suburban areas have seen their Hispanic communities grow.
Between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic populace in Grand Rapids interval from 25,818 to 29,261, increasing over 13% in a decade. Grand Rapids's Arab American populace also includes some recent immigrants, as well as older generation Lebanese Americans. Grand Rapids has a momentous Dutch Reformed population.
The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) has a large following in Grand Rapids; its denominational offices are positioned on the southeast side of the city.
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) has about 154 congregations and 76,000 members mainly in Western Michigan, heavily concentrated in the metros/cities in Grand Rapids, Holland, and Zeeland.
The chief office of the denomination is also in Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids-Wyoming urbane region has 86 congregations with almost 49,000 members.
The Protestant Reformed Churches in America (PRCA) traces its roots to the First Protestant Reformed Church (Grand Rapids, Michigan) whose pastor was Herman Hoeksema, the founder of the church. A majority of the PRCA's Classis East churches, about 13 congregations, are positioned around Grand Rapids. The United Reformed Churches in North America has 12 congregations in Grand Rapids area; these congregations form the Classis of Michigan. The Heritage Reformed Congregations' flagship and biggest church is positioned in Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids is home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids, which was created on May 19, 1882 by Pope Leo XIII.
The Diocese comprises 176,098 Catholics in West Michigan, 102 churches, and four high schools: Catholic Central High School, Grand Rapids; Muskegon Catholic Central High School, Muskegon; St.
Patrick High School, Portland; and West Catholic High School, Grand Rapids. David John Walkowiak is the current Bishop of Grand Rapids.
The offices of the West Michigan Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church are positioned in the East Hills Neighborhood of Grand Rapids.
The West Michigan Annual Conference represents more than 400 small-town United Methodist churches in the half of the lower peninsula with approximately 65,000 members in total. Grand Rapids is also home to the United Methodist Community House, whose mission is to increase the ability of children, youth, grownups and families to succeed in a diverse community. In 2010, The United Methodist Church had 61 congregations and 21,450 members in the Grand Rapids Metropolitan area. Calder Plaza, where the Grand Rapids City Hall is located.
Like the encircling counties, the Grand Rapids region has traditionally been a stronghold for the Republican Party, but the town/city has been supportive of Democratic candidates.
Former President Gerald Ford represented the precinct from 1949 to 1973 and is buried on the grounds of his Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids.
Both of its delegates in the Michigan State House of Representatives are Democrats, and in the seven most recent presidential elections, Democratic candidates Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton won a majority or plurality of votes in the town/city of Grand Rapids.
Under Michigan law, Grand Rapids is a home rule town/city and adopted a town/city charter in 1916 providing for the Commission-Manager form of municipal government.
See also: List of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan K 12 enhance education is provided by the Grand Rapids Public Schools as well as a number of charter schools.
Grand Rapids is home of the earliest co-educational Catholic high school in the United States, Catholic Central High School. National Heritage Academies, which operates charter schools athwart a several states, has its command posts in Grand Rapids. The Main Branch of the Grand Rapids Public Library: the Ryerson Building, its earliest wing, opened in 1904 The Cook-De - Vos Center for Health Sciences, positioned on Grand Rapids' "Medical Mile," is part of Grand Valley State University's Pew Grand Rapids ground Grand Rapids is home to a several colleges and universities.
The seminaries Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary are positioned in Grand Rapids.
Cooley Law School, a private institution, also has a ground in Grand Rapids.
The for-profit vocational school Davenport University, a private, non-profit, multi-location college with 14 campuses statewide, has its chief campus just outside Grand Rapids.
As for enhance tertiary establishments, Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) maintains a ground downtown and facilities in other parts of the town/city and encircling region.
Grand Valley State University, with its chief campus positioned in close-by Allendale, continues to precarious its existence downtown by expanding its Pew campus, begun in the 1980s on the west bank of the Grand River. This downtown ground presently consists of 67 acres (27 ha) in two locations and is home to 12 buildings and three leased spaces. Grand Rapids is home to the Secchia Center medical education building, a $90 million, seven-story, 180,000-square-foot (17,000 m2) facility, at Michigan Street and Division Avenue, part of the Grand Rapids Medical Mile.
The building is home to the Grand Rapids Campus of the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Main article: List of citizens from Grand Rapids, Michigan The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad began passenger and freight service to Cedar Springs, Michigan, on December 25, 1867, and to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1870.
The Grand Rapids, Newaygo and Lake Shore Railroad instead of a line to White Cloud in 1875.
In 1888 the Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad connected with Grand Rapids.
Grand Rapids was a home to one of the first regularly scheduled passenger airlines in the United States when Stout Air Services began flights from the old Grand Rapids airport to Detroit (Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan), on July 31, 1926. A view looking north of Grand Rapids.
Ford Freeway, runs east west through the city, connecting to I-96 just east of Grand Rapids and I-94 in Benton Township US 131, a company loop traversing downtown Grand Rapids M-121 follows Chicago Drive southwest of Grand Rapids to Holland These furnish transportation to and from the parking lots in the town/city of Grand Rapids to various designated loading and unloading spots around the city.
In the Summer of 2012, Megabus started service from Grand Rapids to Chicago, Detroit, East Lansing, Indianapolis, and Columbus. The service was stopped in January 2017.
Indian Trails provides daily intercity bus service of varying frequencies between Grand Rapids and Petoskey, Michigan, between Grand Rapids and Benton Harbor, Michigan, and between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan with intermediate stops.
Commercial air service to Grand Rapids is provided by Gerald R.
The first regularly scheduled air service in the United States was between Grand Rapids and Detroit (actually Dearborn's Ford Airport) on a Ford-Stout monoplane titled Miss Grand Rapids, which commenced July 26, 1926.
Amtrak train at Grand Rapids station.
Amtrak provides direct train service to Chicago from the passenger station via the Pere Marquette line. Freight service is provided by CSX, the Grand Elk Railroad, Marquette Rail, and the Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad.
Grand Rapids has town/city partnerships with the following cities: List of citizens from Grand Rapids, Michigan Official records for Grand Rapids kept June 1892 to December 1940 at downtown, at the first Grand Rapids Airport some 4 mi (6.4 km) south of downtown from January 1941 to 23 November 1963, and at Gerald Ford Int'l since its opening on 24 November 1963.
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