City of Ypsilanti
The Ypsilanti Water Tower and statue of Demetrius Ypsilanti.
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Nickname: Ypsi, Ypsitucky
Motto: Pride. Diversity. Heritage.
Country	United States of America
State	Michigan
County	Washtenaw
First settled	1823
Incorporated village	1832
Incorporated city	1858
Government
- Mayor	Paul Schreiber
- City Manager	Edward B. Koryzno, Jr.
Area
- City	4.2 sq mi (10.9 km²)
Population (2000)
- City	22,362
Time zone	Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
ZIP Code	48197, 48198
Area code(s)	734
Website: http://cityofypsilanti.com/

Ypsilanti (Ǐp'-sǐ-lǎn-tē) (IPA pronunciation: [ˌɪp sɪ 'læn ti]) is a city in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 22,362. The city is bounded to the north by the Charter Township of Superior and on the west, south, and east by the Charter Township of Ypsilanti. photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Ypsilanti, Michigan File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Ypsilanti Water Tower, nickamed by some The Brick Dick, is a historic water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ... Demetrius Ypsilanti, sometimes spelled Ypsilantis, (1793 - January 3, 1832), second son of Prince Constantine, distinguished himself as a Russian officer in the campaign of 1814, and in the spring of 1821 went to the Morea, where the war of Greek independence had just broken out. ... 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Ypsilanti may refer to People Alexander Ypsilanti (1792-1828), a national hero in the Greek war for independence in the early 1800s Alexander Ypsilanti (1725-1805), Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia, grandfather of the younger Alexander Ypsilanti Constantine Ypsilanti, (d. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Washtenaw County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the... 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The geographic grid centre of Ypsilanti is the intersection of the Huron River and Michigan Avenue, the latter of which connects downtown Detroit, Michigan, with downtown Chicago, Illinois, and is coextensive with U.S. Route 12. The Huron River is the name of three different rivers in Michigan. ... Michigan Avenue refers to remnants of Old U.S. Highway 12 that ran from downtown Detroit to Chicago. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Founded 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D) Area  - City  143. ... Nickname: Motto: “Urbs in Horto” (Latin: “City in a Garden”), “I Will” Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... U.S. Route 12, or US 12, is an east-west United States highway running from downtown Detroit almost 2500 miles (4000 km) to Grays Harbor on the Pacific Ocean in the state of Washington. ...

On July 23, 2007 Governor Jennifer Granholm announced that Ypsilanti, along with the cities of Caro and Clio, was chosen by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) to take part in the Blueprints for Michigan's Downtowns program. The award provides for an economic development consultant to assist Ypsilanti in developing a growth and job creation strategy for the downtown area. [1] Scottville received a similar award to take part in the Cool Cities Michigan Main Street program. Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician and the current Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Caro is a village located in Tuscola County, Michigan. ... Clio is a city located in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Scottville is a city located in Mason County, Michigan. ...

History

Originally a trading post established in 1809 by Gabriel Godfroy, a French-Canadian fur trader from Montreal, a permanent settlement was established on the east side of the Huron River in 1823 by Major Thomas Woodruff. It was incorporated into the Territory of Michigan as the village Woodruff's Grove. A separate community a short distance away on the west side of the river was established in 1825 under the name "Ypsilanti", after Demetrius Ypsilanti, a hero in the Greek war for independence. Woodruff's Grove changed its name to Ypsilanti in 1829, and the two communities eventually merged. “Canadiens” redirects here. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... The Huron River is the name of three different rivers in Michigan. ... From 1805-1818, the western border was a line through Lake Michigan. ... Demetrius Ypsilanti, sometimes spelled Ypsilantis, (1793 - January 3, 1832), second son of Prince Constantine, distinguished himself as a Russian officer in the campaign of 1814, and in the spring of 1821 went to the Morea, where the war of Greek independence had just broken out. ...

A bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti stands between a Greek and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water Tower. Demetrius Ypsilanti, sometimes spelled Ypsilantis, (1793 - January 3, 1832), second son of Prince Constantine, distinguished himself as a Russian officer in the campaign of 1814, and in the spring of 1821 went to the Morea, where the war of Greek independence had just broken out. ... The Ypsilanti Water Tower, nickamed by some The Brick Dick, is a historic water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ...

Bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti at the Ypsilanti Water Tower

• 1809 - Trading post established by French-Canadian Gabriel Godfroy from Montreal
• 1823 - Woodruff's Grove platted
• April 21, 1825 - Plat recorded under the name Ypsilanti
• 1827 - Ypsilanti Township organized
• June 19, 1832 - Village of Ypsilanti incorporated
• 1849 - Eastern Michigan University founded as Michigan State Normal School
• February 4, 1858 - Village of Ypsilanti reincorporated as a city
• 1890 - Michigan's first Interurban, the Ypsi-Ann, begins service
• 1967-1969 - Ypsilanti resident John Norman Collins is suspected of being the perpetrator of the Michigan murders, a series of murders of coeds at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. He was convicted in 1969, but of only one of the murders.

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Automotive history

Ypsilanti has played an important role in the automobile industry. From 1920-1922, Apex Motors produced the "ACE" car. It was in Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker (whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) designed and built the prototypes for his Tucker Torpedo car. Tucker's story was related in the film Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Preston Thomas Tucker Preston Thomas Tucker (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur. ... A 1948 Tucker Sedan at the Blackhawk Auto Museum. ... Tucker: The Man and his Dream is a 1988 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges which tells the story of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker 48. ... Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is a five-time Academy Award winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. ...

In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer bought Ypsilanti's Willow Run B-24 Liberator bomber plant and started to make Kaiser and Frazer model cars in 1947. The last Kaiser car made in Ypsilanti rolled off the assembly line in 1953, when the company merged with Willys-Overland and moved production to Toledo, Ohio. General Motors purchased the Kaiser Frazer plant, and converted it into its Hydramatic Division (now called its Powertrain division), beginning production in November 1953. Henry J. Kaiser perches above Hawaii Kai in April 1963, his suburban development in Honolulu. ... Joseph Washington Frazer was an early-to-mid 20th Century American automobile company executive (Chrysler, Willys-Overland, Graham-Paige, Kaiser-Frazer Corporation) and a cousin of George Washington. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Willow Run Airport. ... The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber that was produced in greater numbers than any other American combat aircraft during World War II and still holds the record as the most produced allied aircraft. ... Willys (pronounced will-eeze) was the brand name used by the United States automobile company Willys-Overland Motors, best known for its production of military and civilian Jeeps. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio County Lucas Founded 1833 Government  - Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (D) Area  - City 84. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... Roto Hydramatic (sometimes spelled Roto Hydra-Matic or Roto-Hydramatic) was an automatic transmission built by General Motors and used on some Oldsmobile and Pontiac models from 1961 to 1964. ...

Ypsilanti is also the location of the last Hudson automobile dealership. Today, the former dealership is the site of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection. The museum is the site of an original Hudson Hornet, identical in appearance to the one animated in the recent film Cars developed by Pixar. Hudson Logo Hudson Six-40, 1914 1917 Hudson Phaeton The Hudson Motor Car Company made Hudson brand automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1957. ... Advertisement for the 1954 Hudson Hornet The Hudson Hornet was an automobile produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1951 and 1954. ... Cars is an animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, presented by Walt Disney Pictures, and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. ... Pixars studio lot in Emeryville Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA) notable for its seven Academy Awards. ...

Political history

In the early 1970s, along with neighboring city of Ann Arbor, the citizens reduced the penalty for simple possession of marijuana to $5 with the campaign slogan "5 is fine" (the Ypsilanti Marijuana Initiative; see also the Human Rights Party). This fine was raised in the early 1980s to $25 in both Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor.^{[citation needed]} For the railroad company, see Ann Arbor Railroad. ... A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ... The Human Rights Party (HRP) was a left-wing political party that existed in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the early and mid-1970s. ...

In 1979, Faz Husain was elected to the Ypsilanti city council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to win elected office in Michigan. Faizi Faz Husain (1952 - March 9, 2006) was a pizza shop owner, Muslim community leader, and local politician in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area of Michigan. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...

In the 1990s Ypsilanti became the first city in Michigan to pass a living wage ordinance. Living wage refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve a basic standard of living. ...

In the late 1990s, the city adopted an ordinance to ban discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity/transgender status, body weight (i.e., being obese or underweight). Two ballot measures to repeal the ordinance were led and bankrolled by conservatives, including Tom Monaghan. Both measures failed, the second by a larger percentage than the first.^{[citation needed]} Sexual orientation refers to the direction of an individuals sexuality, normally conceived of as falling into several significant categories based around the sex or gender that the individual finds attractive. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Transgender (IPA: , from trans (Latin) and gender (English) ) is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies that diverge from the normative gender role (woman or man) commonly, but not always, assigned at birth, as well as the role traditionally held by society. ... Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.5 mi² (11.7 km²). 4.4 mi² (11.4 km²) of it is land and 0.1 mi² (0.3 km²) is water. The total area is 2.45% water. The Huron River flows through both the City of Ypsilanti and the Charter Township of Ypsilanti. The United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census as defined in Title ) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... The Huron River is the name of three different rivers in Michigan. ...

Ypsilanti is located at 42.24° N 83.62° W, in the western reaches of the Detroit/Windsor metropolitan area. Suburban development between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, via Washtenaw Avenue and Packard Road, has been unbroken since the late 1960s. For the railroad company, see Ann Arbor Railroad. ...

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there were 22,362 people, 8,551 households, and 3,377 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,962.3/km² (5,081.5/mi²). There were 9,215 housing units at an average density of 808.6/km² (2,094.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 61.40% White, 30.58% African American, 0.44% Native American, 3.18% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.32% from other races, and 3.01% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.47% of the population. The Fifteenth United States Census was taken in 1930. ... The Sixteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7. ... The Seventeenth United States Census was taken in 1950. ... The Eighteenth United States Census was taken in 1960. ... The Nineteenth United States Census was taken in 1970. ... The Twetieth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,542,199, an increase of 11. ... The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9. ... 2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... The following is a list of sources used in the creation of encyclopedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... It has been suggested that Ethnicity (United States Census) be merged into this article or section. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ... The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...

There were 8,551 households out of which 19.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 23.0% were married couples living together, 13.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 60.5% were non-families. 40.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.96. For the record label, see Marriage Records. ...

In the city the population was spread out with 15.9% under the age of 18, 38.2% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25 to 44, 12.4% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 24 years. For every 100 females there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $28,610, and the median income for a family was $40,793. Males had a median income of $30,328 versus $26,745 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,692. About 16.9% of families and 25.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 30.1% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...

Education

K-12 education

The Ypsilanti area is served by four public school districts: Ypsilanti Public Schools, Lincoln Consolidated Schools,Van Buren Public Schools and Willow Run Community Schools. School Districts are a form of Special-purpose district in the United States which serves to operate the local public primary, middle, and secondary schools. ... The Ypsilanti Public School District is a public school district in southeastern Michigan. ...

Ypsilanti Schools draws students from the city proper, western Ypsilanti Township east of Golfside Road, northern Ypsilanti Township east of Prospect, and small parts of the township south of I-94. Willow Run Schools, named after the famous Willow Run bomber plant and airport east of the city, draws students primarily from eastern Ypsilanti Township north of I-94. Lincoln Schools draws students from the township south of I-94. Ypsilanti Charter Township is a charter township of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Ypsilanti Charter Township is a charter township of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

In recent years, as southern Ypsilanti Township has grown remarkably, Lincoln Schools has grown in tandem, while Ypsilanti and Willow Run have suffered. Both have seen enrollment slides, and both are actively using Washtenaw County's "school of choice" program to market themselves to students from elsewhere. These programs have yielded mixed results.

University Park on EMU campus.

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Higher education

A college town, Ypsilanti is home to Eastern Michigan University, founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Today, EMU has 22,000+ undergraduate and over 4800 graduate students.^[1] The college is vital to the commercial landscape of the city and keeps the median age in Ypsilanti relatively low. Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ...

Culture

Since 1979, the city has become known for summer festivals in the part of the city called "Depot Town," which is adjacent to Riverside Park and Frog Island Park. Festivals include the annual Heritage Festival, the Elvis Festival, the Orphan Car Festival, the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival, and a Latino festival. Depot Town sign and railroad crossing guard at the corner of Cross and River Streets. ... The Michigan Brewers Guild is a non-profit corporation dedicated to increasing sales of Michigan brewed beer through promotions, marketing, public awareness, and consumer education while monitoring and assuring a healthy beer industry within the state. ...

Overlooking Riverside Park is the non-profit Riverside Arts Center. Established in 1994 through the efforts of the Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority and several public sprited citizens, the Riverside boasts a 115 seat black box theater, a sizeable art gallery and some meeting rooms and offices. In 2006 the adjacent DTE building was renovated with "Cool Cities" money and is in the process of being incorporated into the center's activities. The black-box theatre is a relatively recent innovation, consisting of a simple, somewhat unadorned performance space, usually a large square room with black walls and a flat floor. ...

The Ypsilanti Youth Theater group works as a guild by having area local youth in grades 3 to 12 collaborate and work with various local theater professionals as well as learning from one another. YYT offers a space within which young people can create and participate in quality performance pieces and explore a variety of drama and theatre techniques.

Fay Kleinman, the internationally recognized painter, moved to Ypsilanti in the late 1980's with her husband, the pianist Emanuel Levenson. They wanted to be near Kleinman's children in nearby Ann Arbor. Since then, Kleinman has had many exhibits in Southeast Michigan, while continuing to exhibit in larger U.S. cities and abroad. The Ypsilanti District Library purchased one of her paintings, which hangs near the entrance to the children's reading room. The East Ann Arbor Health and Geriatrics Center, which serves Ypsilanti, purchased another of her paintings for its lobby. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Domino's Pizza was founded in Ypsilanti in 1960, delivering to students at Eastern Michigan University, although the corporate offices are now located nearby in Ann Arbor Township. World locations Dominos Pizza, Inc. ... Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ...

In music

• The Ypsilanti City Council declared Lee Osler's "Back To Ypsilanti" the city's official song in 1983.

• Iggy Pop grew up in a trailer park on Carpenter Road in Pittsfield Township (Ypsilanti) during his teenage years at the start of his music career.

• Ypsilanti is the subject of Sufjan Stevens' song, "For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti", on his 2003 album Michigan.

• Bloodlined Calligraphy released a CD on the Facedown Records label in honor of their hometown on September 19th, 2006.

• A portrait of jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, painted by his grandmother, Fay Kleinman, is part of the permanent art collection of the Ypsilanti District Library. Randy performed his first public gig as leader at the age of twelve under at tent at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, an event sponsored by WEMU radio.

• The Deluxtone Rockets originated in Ypsilanti.

• Noise musicians Wolf Eyes hail from Ypsilanti.

• Performance artist and musician Patrick Elkins maintains Ypsilanti as his base of operations.

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Sites of interest

Starkweather Chapel in Highland Cemetery

Ypsilanti has the second largest historic district in the state of Michigan, behind only the much larger city of Grand Rapids. The historic district includes both downtown Ypsilanti, along Michigan Avenue, and the Depot Town area adjacent to Frog Island Park and Riverside Park, which features many specialty shops, bars and grills, and a farmers' market. Download high resolution version (648x663, 188 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Richardsonian Romanesque File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (648x663, 188 KB)photo by Einar Einarsson Kvaran Richardsonian Romanesque File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Richardsonian Romanesque has both French and Spanish Romanesque characteristics, like the First Presbyterian Church in Detroit, Michigan by architechs George D. Mason and Zachariah Rice in 1891 Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of American architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson, whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston in Massachusetts. ... Nickname: Location of Grand Rapids within Kent County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country United States State Michigan County Kent Founded 1826 Incorporation (city) 1850 Government  - Mayor (Part-time) George Heartwell Area  - City  45. ... Roadside farmers market in Bridgehampton, New York Dutch bell peppers at a farmers market in Montpelier, Vermont A farmers market near the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. ...

Other sites of interest include:

• Automotive Heritage Museum
• First United Methodist Church
• Highland Cemetery
• Michigan Firehouse Museum
• Pease Auditorium (on the campus of Eastern Michigan University)
• Starkweather Hall, built in 1896 as a student religious center (currently housing EMU Graduate School)
• Yankee Air Museum (in neighboring Belleville)
• Ypsilanti Historical Museum (housed in a Victorian-style mansion built in 1860)
• Ypsilanti Water Tower (built in 1890)
• Willow Run Airport - located in neighboring Wayne County, but home to Ypsilanti's weather station

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ... The Yankee Air Museum, housed in a hangar at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is a museum dedicated to preserving and displaying historic aircraft and other artifacts pertaining to aviation history. ... Belleville is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... The Ypsilanti Water Tower, nickamed by some The Brick Dick, is a historic water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ... Willow Run Airport (IATA: YIP, ICAO: KYIP) is an airport near Ypsilanti, Michigan that serves freight, corporate, and general aviation clients. ... Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

Local media

Ypsilanti is served by daily newspapers from Ann Arbor (the Ypsilanti Press, formerly run in Ypsilanti) and Detroit. A weekly newspaper, the Ypsilanti Courier, is published every Thursday by Heritage Newspapers from their Belleville, MI offices. Belleville is a city located in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ...

Local radio stations located in the area include:

• WEMU (89.1 FM), which broadcasts jazz and blues music and NPR news from Eastern Michigan University
• WQBR-AM (610 AM carrier-current and University Cable Channel 10), EMU's student-run radio station
• WDEO (990 AM), a Catholic religious radio station targeting the Detroit area
• WSDS (1480 AM), licensed to nearby Salem and a former longtime country-music station, now broadcasts Spanish-language popular music as "La Explosiva" and has studios in Ypsilanti.

Ypsilanti is also served by radio and TV stations from Ann Arbor and Detroit. Broadcasts from the Lansing and Toledo areas also reach parts of the area. WEMU is the Public radio station for Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. It is on a frequency of 89. ... NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... For the Pennsylvania FM station, see WQBR. WQBR-AM is the student radio station of Eastern Michigan University, broadcasting carrier current on 610 AM and University Cable Channel 10. ... WDEO is a radio station broadcasting on 990 kilohertz in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ... WSDS is a radio station in Salem Township, Michigan, that broadcasts at 1480 kHz. ... Location in Ingham County, Michigan1 Coordinates: Country United States State Michigan County Ingham, Eaton Settled 1835 Incorporation 1859 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Virg Bernero (D) Area  - City  35. ... Nickname: Location in the state of Ohio Coordinates: , Country United States State Ohio County Lucas Founded 1833 Government  - Mayor Carty Finkbeiner (D) Area  - City 84. ...

Nicknames

Ypsilanti is often shortened to "Ypsi" in spoken conversation.

Because a large number of residents have migrated from Appalachia, certain neighborhoods (particularly on the east side, near the Willow Run auto plant), are sometimes called "Ypsitucky." Some locals find this label a term of disparagement, while others take pride in their Kentucky heritage. Harriet Arnow's book The Dollmaker, which was made into a film starring Jane Fonda, focused on the lives of these "Ypsituckians." It has been suggested that Poverty in Appalachia be merged into this article or section. ... Harriette Arnow (July 7, 1908 - March 22, 1986) was a novelist, claimed by both Kentucky and Michigan as a native daughter. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. ...

See also

• Category:People from Ypsilanti

References

• Beakes, Samuel Willard (1906). Past and present of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. (1906)
• History of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman & Co. (1881).
• [2] Eastern Michigan University Fast Facts, accessed 21 July 2006.
• Referenced in a song named 'For The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti' by Indie Musician Sufjan Stevens

External links

• downtownypsi.org
• Virtual Tour of Ypsilanti
• City of Ypsilanti
• Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority
• Ypsilanti Area Chamber of Commerce
• Ypsilanti District Library
• Ypsilanti's Historic Depot Town
• Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
• Riverside Arts Center
• Ypsilanti at Arbor Wiki
• Ypsisongs
• Michigan Elvis Fest
• YpsiAutoHeritage.org
• YpsiYouthTheatre.org

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