Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County. It is mostly in the county,although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644,making it the sixth most populous city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was 541,297 at the 2020 census,the third largest in the state after metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847,ten years after Michigan became a state.
Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County,Michigan,United States. Located along the Flint River,66 miles (106 km) northwest of Detroit,it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. At the 2020 census,Flint had a population of 81,252,making it the twelfth-most populous city in Michigan. The Flint metropolitan area is located entirely within Genesee County. It is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Michigan with a population of 406,892 in 2020. The city was incorporated in 1855.
Pontiac is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located roughly 26 miles (41.8 km) northwest of downtown Detroit,Pontiac is part of the Detroit metropolitan area,and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 61,606.
Coleman Alexander Young was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit,Michigan from 1974 to 1994. Young was the first African-American mayor of Detroit and has been described as the "single most influential person in Detroit's modern history."
Dennis Wayne Archer is an American lawyer,jurist and former politician from Michigan. A Democrat,Archer served as Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and as mayor of Detroit. He later served as president of the American Bar Association,becoming the first black president of the organization,which,until 1943,had barred African-American lawyers from membership.
The Lansing Lugnuts are a Minor League Baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate of the Athletics. They are located in Lansing,Michigan,and play their home games at Jackson Field.
Albert Kahn was an American architect noted for his collaborations with his brother Julius Kahn in designing industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. Based in Detroit,he also designed skyscrapers,office buildings,and mansions in the city and suburbs,as well as many buildings at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Kahn has been called the "architect of Detroit" as the designer of nearly 900 buildings in the city.
M-66 is a north–south state trunkline highway on the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. It runs from the Indiana state line in the south to Charlevoix in the north. M-66 is the only state highway to run the north–south distance of the Lower Peninsula. It starts as a continuation of State Road 9 (SR 9),which provides access to the Indiana Toll Road. The total length is approximately 272.9 miles (439.2 km),which includes almost 3.4 miles (5.5 km) of freeway between Interstate 94 (I-94) and downtown Battle Creek designated as I-194. A section of the highway immediately south of I-94 is an expressway,a type of divided limited-access highway,while the section along I-194 is a full freeway;otherwise M-66 is a two-lane rural highway. Two sections are listed on the National Highway System.
Interstate 496 (I-496) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that passes through downtown Lansing in the US state of Michigan. Also a component of the State Trunkline Highway System,the freeway connects I-96 to the downtown area. It has been named the R.E. Olds Freeway for Ransom E. Olds,the founder of Oldsmobile and the REO Motor Car Company. I-496 runs east–west from I-96/I-69 near the downtown area and north–south along a section that runs concurrently with US Highway 127 (US 127). The trunkline also passes a former assembly plant used by Oldsmobile and runs along or crosses parts of the Grand and Red Cedar rivers.
Interstate 475 (I-475) is a north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Michigan. I-475 is a 16.9-mile (27.2 km) bypass route that serves the downtown area of Flint while its parent,I-75,passes through the west side of the city. I-475 starts southwest of Grand Blanc and runs through suburbs of Flint before passing through downtown. There,it intersects I-69 and crosses the Flint River. The freeway turns westerly to connect back to I-75 north of Flint near Mount Morris.
Interstate 194 (I-194) is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km),north–south auxiliary Interstate Highway between downtown Battle Creek and I-94 in the southern portion of the city. The highway has been designated the Sojourner Truth Downtown Parkway by the state after the abolitionist Sojourner Truth,who was active in the Battle Creek area. Locals refer to the freeway by its semi-official nickname,"The Penetrator". I-194 is the only three-digit spur or loop route off I-94 in the state of Michigan and runs concurrently throughout its length with M-66,which continues both north and south from the termini of I-194. The freeway was initially opened in 1961 and completed in its current form in 1966. The highway was named in 1976 for Truth in honor of her local connections to the area.
Central Michigan,also called Mid Michigan,is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. As its name implies,it is the middle area of the Lower Peninsula. Lower Michigan is said to resemble a mitten,and Mid Michigan corresponds roughly to the thumb and palm,stretching from Michigan's eastern shoreline along Lake Huron into the fertile rolling plains of the Michigan Basin. The region contains cities of moderate size,including Flint,Saginaw,and the state capital of Lansing. Generally Central,or "Mid",Michigan is defined by governmental organizations as an area North of Jackson,and South of Clare.
Interstate 94 (I-94) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Billings,Montana,to the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. In Michigan,it is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of New Buffalo and runs eastward through several metropolitan areas in the southern section of the state. The highway serves Benton Harbor–St. Joseph near Lake Michigan before turning inland toward Kalamazoo and Battle Creek on the west side of the peninsula. Heading farther east,I-94 passes through rural areas in the middle of the southern Lower Peninsula,crossing I-69 in the process. I-94 then runs through Jackson,Ann Arbor,and portions of Metro Detroit,connecting Michigan's largest city to its main airport. Past the east side of Detroit,the Interstate angles northeasterly through farmlands in The Thumb to Port Huron,where the designation terminates on the Blue Water Bridge at the Canada–United States border.
US Highway 12 (US 12) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs from Aberdeen,Washington,to Detroit,Michigan. In Michigan,it runs for 210 miles (340 km) between New Buffalo and Detroit as a state trunkline highway and Pure Michigan Byway. On its western end,the highway is mostly a two-lane road that runs through the southern tier of counties roughly parallel to the Indiana state line. It forms part of the Niles Bypass,a four-lane expressway south of Niles in the southwestern part of the state,and it runs concurrently with the Interstate 94 (I-94) freeway around the south side of Ypsilanti in southeastern Michigan. In between Coldwater and the Ann Arbor area,the highway angles northeasterly and passes Michigan International Speedway. East of Ypsilanti,US 12 follows a divided highway routing on Michigan Avenue into Detroit,where it terminates at an intersection with Cass Avenue.
Interstate 69 (I-69) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that will eventually run from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border at Port Huron,Michigan. In Michigan,it is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of Coldwater and passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. A north–south freeway from the Indiana–Michigan border to the Lansing area,it changes direction to east–west after running concurrently with I-96. The freeway continues to Port Huron before terminating in the middle of the twin-span Blue Water Bridge while running concurrently with I-94 at the border. There are four related business loops for I-69 in the state,connecting the freeway to adjacent cities.
There are currently eight business routes of Interstate 94 (I-94) in the US state of Michigan. These business routes connect I-94 to the downtown business districts of neighboring cities. Seven of the eight routes are business loops which bear the Business Loop I-94 designation while one is a business spur that bears the Business Spur I-94. These loops are former routings of I-94's two predecessors in Michigan:US Highway 12 (US 12) or US 25. The westernmost BL I-94 runs through the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph along the former routing of US 12 and US 31/US 33 that now includes a section of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour in the state. The loops in Kalamazoo,Battle Creek,Marshall,Albion,and Jackson were also formerly segments of US 12 which were later designated as separate version of Business US Highway 12 through their respective cities before becoming BL I-94s in 1960. The BL I-94 in Kalamazoo was converted into BS I-94 in 2019. The route of the business loop through Ann Arbor was previously US 12 and then later M-14 before receiving its current moniker. The BL I-94 through Port Huron was previously US 25 and then Business US Highway 25.
Michael Brown is the former city administrator and former emergency manager of Flint,Michigan,US. He also served as temporary mayor and city administrator of Flint after the resignation of Don Williamson.
Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County,Michigan,United States,at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. As of the 2020 census,the city had a total population of 52,731. It is the principal city of the Battle Creek metropolitan statistical area,which encompasses all of Calhoun County. Nicknamed "Cereal City",it is best known as the home of WK Kellogg Co and the founding city of Post Consumer Brands.
Andy Schor is an American politician currently serving as the 52nd mayor of Lansing,Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party,Schor was previously a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners. He also represented the 68th district in the Michigan House of Representatives,which includes most of the City of Lansing and all of Lansing Township. Schor is the first Jewish mayor of Lansing.
Michael Fougere is an American-Canadian politician who served as mayor of Regina,Saskatchewan. He was elected mayor on October 24,2012 with 42 percent of the vote among nine candidates,running on a platform that included housing,infrastructure,regional economic development and continuing the Regina Revitalization Initiative. Prior to being elected as mayor of Regina,Fougere served as a city councillor in Ward 4 which covered the majority of the city's south-eastern neighbourhoods,being re-elected five times. He was first elected to city council in 1997. At the time he was the co-founder of the Association of Concerned Taxpayers.
