Milwaukee

Brew City, home of the Brewers major league baseball team, Milwaukee is best known as America’s most German city. Located where the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic rivers enter Lake Michigan, the name Milwaukee comes from a Native American word meaning, roughly, meeting place or council grounds. In modern times the city stands at the north end of a metropolitan axis that stretches southward along the shore of the great inland sea, through Racine and Kenosha, to Chicago and on into northern Indiana. Once the whole region was a huge industrial powerhouse with food processing and transportation as a key component. Immigration from many nations provided the workforces and their influences on food cultures remain in Milwaukee and its neighbors.