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Detroit (pronounce /dɪˈtrɔɪt/) (French: Détroit, meaning "strait", pronounced [detʁwa] (help·info)) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded in 1701 by the Frenchman Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.

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  • Among its sister cities are Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Turin, Italy; & Toyota City, Japan
  • The elevated tracks of the "People Mover" move people around this American "Motor City"
  • Founded by an auto parts maker, this city's Pistons were originally the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons
  • The Cadillac Automobile Company was founded in this city in 1902
  • Ghettoblaster is both a CD & a beer produced by Motor City Brewing Works in this city
  • The first mile of concrete paving was laid in 1909 along this "Motor City"'s Woodward Avenue
  • The cities of Highland Park & Hamtramck are surrounded by this Michigan city
  • Ford & Chrysler are 2 of the freeways that flow into it
  • Wayne State College is in Wayne, Nebraska; Wayne State University is in this largest Michigan city
  • This largest Michigan city was state capital for 10 years, before it was replaced by Lansing
  • The Henry & Edsel Ford Auditorium is part of this city's civic center
  • The style called techno evolved in this U.S. city about 20 years after Motown was born there
  • This Michigan city's civic center has 6 complexes, including the Joe Louis Arena & the Ford Auditorium
  • On Feb. 5, 2006 the Stones performed during the Super Bowl XL halftime show in this city
  • Punk precursors The MC5 were named for this "Motor City", their home base
  • Coleman Young has been mayor of this northern industrial city for the past 15 years
  • On Aug. 16, 1812 British general Sir Isaac Brock captured this Michigan city
  • The Walk-In-The-Water, the first steamship on the Great Lakes, ran between Buffalo & this motor city
  • Incorporated as a town in 1802; made capital of the Michigan Territory in 1805; burned down the same year
  • Cadillac Tower
  • It's the city that's home to the NFL's Lions
  • On July 24, 1701 this city was founded as a French fort by Cadillac
  • In 2008 a house on the East Side of this "Motor City" was listed for $1; it still took 19 days to find a buyer
  • In 1932 this motor city laid the 1st mile of concrete pavement; in 1914 it erected the 1st stop sign
  • Fittingly, members of this Motor City's Symphony Orchestra played on the Supremes' "I Hear A Symphony"
  • "8 Mile"
  • Automotive News, a weekly from Crain's, is based in this city
  • It's 1,984 miles from Motor City, California to this better known Motor City to the northeast
  • Appropriately, this Michigan city is known as "Motor City"
  • Grosse Pointe, a suburb of this metropolis, lies on the shores of Lake St. Clair
  • Elmore sets many of his stories in Miami or this Michigan metropolis, his home
  • An arena bearing Joe Louis' name in this Michigan city was the site of the 1980 Republican Convention
  • American general William Hull was court-martialed for surrendering this Michigan city during the War of 1812
  • The headquarters of the United Automobile Workers is in this city
  • Axel Foley was a cop on this midwestern city's payroll
  • The Free Press, est. 1831
  • Each January this city hosts the North American International Auto Show
  • This Michigan city was incorporated in 1815; there must have been a recall, as it was reincorporated in 1824
  • Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, this Michigan city has the highest percentage of African-Americans
  • Population-wise, in 1950 this was the fourth-largest city in the U.S.; by 2000, it was eighth
  • Automaker David Buick was born in Scotland in 1854 & died in this U.S. city in 1929
  • From May to Mov. of 1763, Chief Pontiac tried to drive the British from this city, now the biggest in its state
  • In 2008 its city council asked governor Jennifer Granholm to remove Kwame Kilpatrick as its mayor
  • This Midwestern city's Sunday Journal is produced by striking workers from its News & Free Press
  • The Joe Louis Fist,The Dossin Great Lakes Museum
  • I'll hum through the Motown Historical Museum in this city
  • You auto know it:I ROTTED
  • In the 1930s this city had the USA's first official radio broadcast orchestra, heard on the Ford Symphony Hour
  • Cobb Place,Chrysler Freeway,Lansing Avenue
  • First Chicago NBD was formed by a merger of banks in Chicago & this Michigan city
  • Cadillac Tower at 65 Cadillac Square
  • Despite its name, this large Midwest city's "Free Press" costs 20 cents, 75 cents on Sundays
  • In 1995 Camilo Jose Vergara proposed making this city's abandoned skyscrapers a theme park
  • In 1998, the 2.2-million-square-foot Hudson's Department Store was taken down in this Midwest U.S. city
  • Olympia, Detroit, Madison
  • Its McNamara Terminal is also the Northwest Airlines World Gateway:DTW
  • "Martin" &"Home Improvement"
  • Kiss said, "You gotta lose your mind" in this "Rock City"
  • The 1967 riots in this Midwest city began with a police raid on a 12th Street speakeasy
  • This city's name is from the French for "strait"; it lies on a strait between Lake Erie & Lake St. Clair
  • Dave Bing, this city's new mayor, wants to revive the innovative spirit of Henry Ford & Berry Gordy
  • From 1881 to 1888 this Midwest city had a baseball team in the National League known as the Wolverines
  • From its Free Press: "State board backs tax rollback for Greektown"

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