For much of the city's history, Milwaukee's spring thaw brought with it the risk of flooding. In March 1960, record snow cover and ice jams were followed by swiftly rising temperatures and heavy rains ...

Milwaukee in the 1950s and '60s had an ambitious construction checklist. A sports arena. A major-league baseball stadium. A new zoo. A freestanding natural history museum. A horticultural center. A ...

Thanks to Milwaukeean Karl Bandow, who found a treasure trove of old Kodachrome half-frame slides of Milwaukee in an antiques store, we can offer up these gorgeous photos of the city as it appeared in ...

Stories about LGBT issues – from marriage equality to business impact – are commonplace in the media today. That was not the case in the late 1960s. In those days, if anyone was covering those issues, ...

ALT., 581. Pop., 637,392. A man who lives in Milwaukee is judged by the beer he drinks. In some cities, he is judged by his income, or his wife’s income, or his lineage, or the grand total of tail ...