Omaha, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska City of Omaha View of Downtown Omaha from Heartland of America Park View of Downtown Omaha from Heartland of America Park Flag of Omaha, Nebraska Flag Official seal of Omaha, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska is positioned in the US Omaha, Nebraska - Omaha, Nebraska Omaha (/ o m h / oh-m -hah) is the biggest city in the state of Nebraska and the governmental center of county of Douglas County. Omaha is positioned in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River.
Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs urbane area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, athwart the Missouri River from Omaha.
According to the 2010 census, Omaha's populace was 408,958, making it the nation's 43rd-largest city.
According to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omaha's populace was 446,599.
Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest urbane region in the United States in 2013, with an estimated populace of 895,151 residing in eight counties.
Enumeration Bureau's 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million inhabitants inside the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile (80 km) radius of Downtown Omaha, the city's center.
Omaha's pioneer reconstructionbegan in 1854, when the town/city was established by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the World's Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition.
During the 19th century, Omaha's central locale in the United States spurred the town/city to turn into an meaningful national transit hub.
In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the world's largest, and its meatpacking plants attained international prominence.
Today, Omaha is the home to the command posts of four Fortune 500 companies: mega-conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway; one of the world's biggest assembly companies, Kiewit Corporation; insurance and financial firm Mutual of Omaha; and the United States' biggest barns operator, Union Pacific Corporation. Berkshire Hathaway is headed by small-town shareholder Warren Buffett, one of the richest citizens in the world, as stated to a decade's worth of Forbes Magazine rankings, some of which have ranked him as high as No.
Also headquartered in Omaha are First National Bank of Omaha, the biggest privately held bank in the United States; three of the nation's biggest 10 architecture/engineering firms: DLR Group, HDR, Inc., and Leo A Daly; the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame; and its riverfront Gallup University.
In 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nation's number one "Best Bang-For-The Buck City" and ranked it number one on "America's Fastest-Recovering Cities" list.
Tourism in Omaha benefits the city's economy greatly, with the annual College World Series providing meaningful revenue and the city's Henry Doorly Zoo serving as the top attraction in Nebraska as well as being titled the best zoo in the world by Trip Advisor in 2014. Omaha hosted the U.S.
Notable undivided Omaha inventions include: the bobby pin and the "pink hair curler", at Omaha's Tip Top; Butter Brickle Ice Cream and the Reuben sandwich, conceived by a chef at the then-Blackstone Hotel on 36th and Farnam Streets; cake mix, advanced by Duncan Hines, then a division of Omaha's Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the forerunner to today's Con - Agra Foods; center-pivot irrigation by the Omaha business now known as Valmont Corporation; Raisin Bran, advanced by Omaha's Skinner Macaroni Co.; the ski lift, in 1936, by Omaha's Union Pacific Corp; the "Top 40" radio format, pioneered by Todd Storz, scion of Omaha's Storz Brewing Co., and head of Storz Broadcasting, which was the first in the U.S.
To use the "Top 40" format at Omaha's KOWH Radio; and the TV dinner, advanced by Omaha's Carl Swanson Co. Main article: History of Omaha, Nebraska See also: History of North Omaha, Nebraska Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha Tribe when it ceded the territory that became the town/city of Omaha to the U.S.
Various Native American tribes had lived in the territory that became Omaha, including since the 17th century, the Omaha and Ponca, Dhegian-Siouan-language citizens who had originated in the lower Ohio River valley and migrated west by the early 17th century; Pawnee, Otoe, Missouri, and Ioway.
In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the town/city of Omaha would be built.
The treaty and cession involving the Omaha region occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska. Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential part in those proceedings.
Nebraska Territory, $1 City of Omaha 1857 uniface banknote.
The note is signed by Jesse Lowe, in his function as first Mayor of Omaha City.
Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring pioneer from Council Bluffs, Iowa to the region that became Omaha.
Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a town/city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the staking out of claims around the region to turn into Omaha by inhabitants from neighboring Council Bluffs.
On July 4, 1854, the town/city was informally established at a picnic on Capital Hill, current site of Omaha Central High School. Soon after, the Omaha Claim Club was formed to furnish vigilante justice for claim jumpers and the rest who infringed on the territory of many of the city's beginning fathers. Some of this land, which now wraps around Downtown Omaha, was later used to entice Nebraska Territorial legislators to an region called Scriptown. The Territorial capitol was positioned in Omaha, but when Nebraska became a state in 1867, the capital was relocated to Lincoln, 53 miles (85 km) south-west of Omaha. The U.S.
Many of Omaha's beginning figures stayed at the Douglas House or the Cozzens House Hotel. Dodge Street was meaningful early in the city's early commercial history; North 24th Street and South 24th Street advanced autonomously as company districts, as well.
Early pioneers were buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery and Cedar Hill Cemetery. Cedar Hill closed in the 1860s and its graves were moved to Prospect Hill, where pioneers were later joined by soldiers from Fort Omaha, African Americans and early European immigrants. There are a several other historical cemeteries in Omaha, historical Jewish Jewish churchs and historical Christian churches dating from the pioneer era, as well.
The Hotel Fontenelle, formerly positioned in downtown Omaha Equally as important, the Union Stockyards were established in 1883. Within twenty years of the beginning of the Union Stockyards in South Omaha, four of the five primary meatpacking companies in the United States were positioned in Omaha.
Immigrants soon created ethnic enclaves throughout the city, including Irish in Sheelytown in South Omaha; Germans in the Near North Side, joined by the European Jews and black migrants from the South; Little Italy and Little Bohemia in South Omaha. Beginning in the late 19th century, Omaha's upper class lived in posh enclaves throughout the city, including the south and north Gold Coast neighborhoods, Bemis Park, Kountze Place, Field Club and throughout Midtown Omaha.
They traveled the city's widespread park fitness on boulevards designed by famous landscape architect Horace Cleveland. The Omaha Horse Railway first carried passengers throughout the city, as did the later Omaha Cable Tramway Company and a several similar companies.
In 1888, the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company assembled the Douglas Street Bridge, the first pedestrian and wagon bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs. Gambling, drinking and prostitution were widespread in the 19th century, first rampant in the city's Burnt District and later in the Sporting District. Controlled by Omaha's political stature Tom Dennison by 1890, criminal elements appreciateed support from Omaha's "perpetual" mayor, "Cowboy Jim" Dahlman, nicknamed for his eight terms as mayor. Calamities such as the Great Flood of 1881 did not slow down the city's violence. In 1882, the Camp Dump Strike pitted state militia against unionized strikers, drawing nationwide attention to Omaha's workforce troubles.
More than 2 million visitors attended these affairs, positioned at Kountze Park and the Omaha Driving Park in the Kountze Place neighborhood. With dramatically increasing populace in the 20th century, there was primary civil unrest in Omaha, resulting from competition and fierce workforce struggles. In 1900, Omaha was the center of a nationwide uproar over the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr., the son of a small-town meatpacking magnate. The city's workforce and management clashed in bitter strikes, ethnic tension escalated as blacks were hired as strikebreakers, and ethnic strife broke out. A primary brawl by ethnic caucasians in South Omaha finished the city's Greek Town in 1909, completely driving out the Greek population. The civil rights boss in Omaha has roots that extend back to 1912, when the first chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People west of the Mississippi River was established in the city. The Omaha Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913 finished much of the city's black community, in addition to much of Midtown Omaha. Six years later, in 1919, the town/city was caught up in the Red Summer riots when thousands of ethnic caucasians marched from South Omaha to the courthouse to lynch a black worker, Willy Brown, a suspect in an alleged rape of a white woman.
They hung and shot Will Brown, then burned his body. Troops were called in from Fort Omaha to quell the riot, prevent more crowds gathering in South Omaha, and to protect the black improve in North Omaha. The culture of North Omaha thrived throughout the 1920s through 1950s, with a several creative figures, including Tillie Olsen, Wallace Thurman, Lloyd Hunter, and Anna Mae Winburn emerging from the vibrant Near North Side. Musicians created their own world in Omaha, and also joined nationwide bands and groups that toured and appeared in the city. The first airplane to drop an atomic bomb, the Enola Gay was assembled at Offutt Air Force Base, positioned south of Omaha.
After the theme Great Depression of the 1930s, Omaha rebounded with the evolution of Offutt Air Force Base just south of the city.
The assembly of Interstates 80, 480 and 680, along with the North Omaha Freeway, spurred development.
There was also controversy, especially in North Omaha, where a several neighborhoods were bisected by new routes. Creighton University hosted the De - Porres Club, an early civil rights group whose sit-in strategies for integration of enhance facilities predated the nationwide movement, starting in 1947. Martin Company bomber manufacturing plant in Bellevue at the beginning of World War II, the relocation of the Strategic Air Command to the Omaha suburb in 1948 provided a primary economic boost to the area. From the 1950s through the 1960s, more than 40 insurance companies were headquartered in Omaha, including Woodmen of the World and Mutual of Omaha.
By the late 1960s, the town/city rivaled, but never surpassed, the United States insurance centers of Hartford, Connecticut, New York City and Boston. In the 1960s, three primary race riots along North 24th Street finished the Near North Side's economic base, with recovery slow for decades. In 1969, Woodmen Tower was instead of and became Omaha's tallest building and first primary high-rise building at 478 feet (146 m), a sign of renewal.
West Omaha has turn into home to the majority of the city's population.
North and South Omaha's populations continue to be centers of new immigrants, with economic and ethnic range.
Downtown Omaha has since been rejuvenated in various ways, starting with the evolution of Gene Leahy Mall and W.
A historic preservation boss in Omaha has led to a number of historic structures and districts being designated Omaha Landmarks or listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Much of the push toward preservation came after Omaha attained the notorious designation of having, in 1989, completed the largest-ever National Register historic precinct in the United States, a record that still stands as of 2013.
The Jobbers Canyon Historic District, along the Missouri River, was felled for a new command posts campus for Con - Agra Foods, a business which threatened to relocate if Omaha did not allow them to raze the city's historic district.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Omaha also saw primary business command posts leave the city, including Enron, established in the town/city in 1930 and taken to Houston in 1987 by the now-notorious Kenneth Lay.
Northwestern Bell, the Bell System partner for Northwestern states, had its command posts in Omaha from its beginning in 1896 until it moved to Denver in 1991 as US West.
Level 3 Communications, a large Tier 1 network provider, was established in Omaha in 1985 as Kiewit Diversified Group, a division of Kiewit Corporation, a Fortune 500 assembly and quarrying business still headquartered in Omaha; Level 3 moved to Denver in 1998.
World Com was established by a consolidation with Omaha's MFS Communications, started as Metropolitan Fiber Systems in 1993.
From the bottom of First National Tower in Omaha Around the start of the 21st century, a several new downtown high-rise buildings and cultural establishments were built. One First National Center was instead of in 2002, surpassing the Woodmen Tower as the tallest building in Omaha as well as in the state at 634 feet (193 m).
The creation of the city's new North Downtown encompassed the assembly of the Century - Link Center and the Slowdown/Film Streams evolution at North 14th and Webster Streets. Construction of the new TD Ameritrade Park began in 2009 and was instead of in 2011, also in the North Downtown area, near the Century - Link Center.
Important retail and office developments have occurred in West Omaha such as the Village Pointe shopping center and a several company parks including First National Business Park and parks for Bank of the West and C&A Industries, Inc and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and a several others. Downtown and Midtown Omaha have both seen the evolution of a momentous number of condominiums in recent years. In Midtown Omaha momentous mixed-use projects are underway.
Developed by Mutual of Omaha, the evolution includes a several condominium towers and retail businesses assembled around Omaha's Turner Park. The evolution along Omaha's riverfront is attributed with prompting the City of Council Bluffs to move their own riverfront evolution time line forward. In the summers of 2008, 2012 and 2016 the United States Olympic Team swimming trials were held in Omaha, at the Qwest/Century Link Center. The event was a highlight in the city's sports community, as well as a showcase for redevelopment in the downtown area.
See also: Geography of Omaha and Omaha-Council Bluffs urbane region Omaha is positioned at 41 15 N 96 0 W.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 130.58 square miles (338.20 km2), of which 127.09 square miles (329.16 km2) is territory and 3.49 square miles (9.04 km2) is water. Situated in the Midwestern United States on the bank of the Missouri River in easterly Nebraska, much of Omaha is assembled in the Missouri River Valley.
The city's territory has been altered considerably with substantial territory grading throughout Downtown Omaha and scattered athwart the city. East Omaha sits on a flood plain west of the Missouri River.
The Omaha-Council Bluffs urbane region consists of eight counties; five in Nebraska and three in Iowa. The urbane region now includes Harrison, Pottawattamie, and Mills Counties in Iowa and Washington, Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, and Saunders Counties in Nebraska.
This region was formerly referred to only as the Omaha Metropolitan Travel Destination and consisted of only five counties: Pottawattamie in Iowa, and Washington, Douglas, Cass, and Sarpy in Nebraska. The Omaha-Council Bluffs combined statistical region comprises the Omaha-Council Bluffs urbane statistical region and the Fremont Micropolitan statistical area; the CSA has a populace of 858,720 (2005 Enumeration Bureau estimate).
Omaha rates as the 42nd-largest town/city in the United States, and is the core town/city of its 60th-largest urbane area. There are presently no merged city-counties in the area; the City of Omaha studied the possibility extensively through 2003 and concluded, "The City of Omaha and Douglas County should merge into a municipal county, work to commence immediately, and that functional consolidations begin immediately in as many departments as possible, including but not limited to parks, fleet management, facilities management, small-town planning, purchasing and personnel." Geographically, Omaha is considered as being positioned in the "Heartland" of the United States.
Omaha is home to a several hospitals, positioned mostly along Dodge St (US6).
Main article: Neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska Omaha is generally divided into six geographic areas: Downtown, Midtown, North Omaha, South Omaha, West Omaha, and East Omaha.
West Omaha includes the Miracle Hills, Boys Town, Regency, and Gateway areas. East Omaha includes the Elmwood Park (Omaha) Neighborhood., Dundee The town/city has a wide range of historical and new neighborhoods and suburbs that reflect its socioeconomic range.
The City of Omaha took in several encircling communities, including Florence, Dundee and Benson.
At the same time, the town/city annexed all of South Omaha, including the Dahlman and Burlington Road neighborhoods.
From its first annexation in 1857 (of East Omaha) to its recent and controversial annexation of Elkhorn, Omaha has continually had an eye towards growth. Starting in the 1950s, evolution of highways and new housing led to boss of middle class to suburbs in West Omaha.
Some suburbs are gated communities or have turn into edge cities. Recently, Omahans have made strides to revitalize the downtown and Midtown areas with the redevelopment of the Old Market, Turner Park, Gifford Park, and the designation of the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District.
Main articles: Landmarks in Omaha, Nebraska and List of Registered Historic Places in Douglas County, Nebraska Omaha is home to dozens of nationally, regionally and locally momentous landmarks. The town/city has more than a dozen historic districts, including Fort Omaha Historic District, Gold Coast Historic District, Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historic District, Field Club Historic District, Bemis Park Historic District, and the South Omaha Main Street Historic District.
Omaha is notorious for its 1989 demolition of 24 buildings in the Jobbers Canyon Historic District, which represents to date the biggest loss of buildings on the National Register. The only initial building surviving of that complex is the Nash Block.
Omaha has almost one hundred individual properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Bank of Florence, Holy Family Church, the Christian Specht Building and the Joslyn Castle.
Locally designated landmarks, including residentiary, commercial, religious, educational, agricultural and socially momentous locations athwart the city, honor Omaha's cultural impact and meaningful history.
The City of Omaha Landmarks Heritage Preservation Commission is the government body that works with the mayor of Omaha and the Omaha City Council to protect historic places.
Based on 30-year averages obtained from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center for the months of December, January and February, Weather Channel ranked Omaha the 5th coldest primary U.S.
Main article: Ethnic groups in Omaha, Nebraska View of 24th and Lake Streets in North Omaha, site of many notable affairs in Omaha's African American improve Native Americans were the first inhabitants of the Omaha area.
The town/city of Omaha was established by European Americans from neighboring Council Bluffs who appeared from the Northeast United States a several years earlier.
In 1910, the Enumeration Bureau reported Omaha's populace as 96.4% White and 3.6% Black. Irish immigrants in Omaha originally moved to an region in present-day North Omaha called "Gophertown", as they lived in dirt dugouts. That populace was followed by Polish immigrants in the Sheelytown neighborhood, and many immigrants were recruited for jobs in South Omaha's demolished and meatpacking industry. The German improve in Omaha was largely responsible for beginning its once-thriving beer industry, including the Metz, Krug, Falstaff and the Storz breweries.
Since its founding, ethnic groups in the town/city have clustered in enclaves in north, south and downtown Omaha.
The Little Italy neighborhood interval south of downtown, as many Italian immigrants came to the town/city to work in the Union Pacific shops. Scandinavians first came to Omaha as Mormon pioneer in the Florence neighborhood. Czechs had a strong political and cultural voice in Omaha, and were involved in a range of trades and businesses, including banks, wholesale homes, and funeral homes.
The Notre Dame Academy and Convent and Czechoslovak Museum are legacies of their residence. Today the impact of the city's early European immigrant populations is evident in many civil and cultural establishments in Downtown and South Omaha.
Today they compose the majority of South Omaha's Hispanic populace and many have taken jobs in meat processing. Other momentous early ethnic populations in Omaha encompassed Danes, Poles, and Swedes.
There are approximately 8,500 Sudanese living in Omaha, comprising the biggest population of Sudanese refugees in the United States.
Most Sudanese citizens in Omaha speak the Nuer language. Other Africans have immigrated to Omaha as well, with one-third from Nigeria, and momentous populations from Kenya, Togo, Cameroon and Ghana. Around the start of the 20th century, violence towards new immigrants in Omaha often erupted out of suspicions and fears. The Greek Town Riot in 1909 flared after increased Greek immigration, Greeks' working as strikebreakers, and the killing of an Irish policeman provoked violence among earlier immigrants such as ethnic Irish. That mob violence forced the Greek immigrant populace to flee from the city. By 1910, 53.7% of Omaha's inhabitants and 64.2% of South Omaha's inhabitants were foreign born or had at least one parent born outside of America. Six years after the Greek Town Riot, in 1915, a Mexican immigrant titled Juan Gonzalez was killed by a mob near Scribner, a town in the Greater Omaha urbane area.
After escaping the city, he was trapped along the Elkhorn River, where the mob, including a several policemen from Omaha, shot him more than twenty times.
Nobody was ever indicted for his killing. In the fall of 1919, following Red Summer, postwar civil and economic tensions, the earlier hiring of blacks as strikebreakers, and job uncertainty contributed to a mob from South Omaha lynching Willy Brown and the ensuing Omaha Race Riot.
Similar to other industrialized cities in the U.S., Omaha suffered harsh job losses in the 1950s, more than 10,000 in total, as both the barns and meatpacking industries restructured.
Poverty deepened in areas of the town/city whose inhabitants had depended on those jobs, specifically North and South Omaha.
In April 1968 contributed to riots in North Omaha, including one at the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project. For some, the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska evolved towards black nationalism, as the Black Panther Party was involved in tensions in the late 1960s.
Whites in Omaha have followed the white flight pattern, suburbanizing to West Omaha over time. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, gang violence and incidents between the Omaha Police and black inhabitants undermined relations between groups in North and South Omaha.
More recent Hispanic immigrants, concentrated in South Omaha, have struggled to earn living wages in meatpacking, adapt to a new society, and deal with discrimination. Main article: Economy of Omaha, Nebraska Omaha's Old Market in Downtown Omaha is one of the city's premier destinations.
According to USA Today, Omaha rates eighth among the nation's 50 biggest cities in both per-capita billionaires and Fortune 500 companies. With diversification in a several industries, including banking, insurance, telecommunications, architecture/construction, and transportation, Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the early 1990s.
In 2001 Newsweek identified Omaha as one of the top 10 high-tech havens in the nation. Six nationwide fiber optic networks converge in Omaha. Five Omaha-based companies: Berkshire Hathaway, Con - Agra Foods, Union Pacific Railroad, Mutual of Omaha, and Kiewit Corporation, are among the Fortune 500. Omaha is the command posts of a several other primary corporations, including the Gallup Organization, TD Ameritrade, info - GROUP, Werner Enterprises, First National Bank, Gavilon and First Comp Insurance.
Many large technology firms have primary operations or working command posts in Omaha, including Bank of the West, First Data, Pay - Pal and Linked - In.
The town/city is also home to three of the 30 biggest architecture firms in the United States, including HDR, Inc., DLR Group, Inc., and Leo A Daly. Omaha has the fifth highest percentage of low-income African Americans in the country. In 2013, Forbes' titled Omaha among its list of the Best Places for Business and Careers. Office buildings in downtown Omaha Tourist attractions in Omaha include history, sports, outdoors and cultural experiences.
Its principal tourist attractions are the Henry Doorly Zoo and the College World Series. The Old Market in Downtown Omaha is another primary attraction and is meaningful to the city's retail economy.
In 1883 Omaha hosted the first official performance of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for eight thousand attendees. In 1898 the town/city hosted more than 1,000,000 visitors from athwart the United States at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, a world's fair that lasted for more than half the year. Research on leisure and hospitality situates Omaha in the same tier for tourists as the neighboring metros/cities of Des Moines, Iowa; Topeka, Kansas; Kansas City, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Denver, Colorado; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A recent study found that investment of $1 million in cultural tourism generated approximately $83,000 in state and small-town taxes, and provided support for hundreds of jobs for the urbane area, which in turn led to additional tax revenue for government. Main articles: Culture in Omaha and Culture in North Omaha, Nebraska The city's historical and cultural attractions have been lauded by various nationwide newspapers, including the Boston Globe and The New York Times. Omaha is home to the Omaha Community Playhouse, the biggest improve theater in the United States. The Omaha Symphony Orchestra and its undivided Holland Performing Arts Center, the Opera Omaha at the Orpheum theater, the Blue Barn Theatre, and The Rose Theater form the backbone of Omaha's performing arts community.
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, one of the nation's premier urban artist colonies, was established in Omaha in 1981, and the Durham Museum is accredited with the Smithsonian Institution for traveling exhibits. The town/city is also home to the biggest singly funded mural in the nation, "Fertile Ground", by Meg Saligman. The annual Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival jubilates small-town music along with the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame.
In 1955 Omaha's Union Stockyards overtook Chicago's demolished as the United States' meat packing center.
This impact is reflected in the cuisine of Omaha, with famous steakhouses such as Gorat's and the recently closed Mister C's, as well as the retail chain Omaha Steaks.
Main article: Old Market (Omaha, Nebraska) The Old Market is a primary historic precinct in Downtown Omaha listed on the National Register of Historical Places.
Today, its warehouses and other buildings home shops, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and art arcades. Downtown is also the locale of the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, which has a several art arcades and restaurants as well.
The Omaha Botanical Gardens features 100 acres (40 ha) with a range of landscaping, and the new Kenefick Park recognizes Union Pacific Railroad's long history in Omaha. North Omaha has a several historical cultural attractions including the Dreamland Historical Project, Love's Jazz and Art Center, and the John Beasley Theater. The annual River City Roundup is jubilated at Fort Omaha, and the neighborhood of Florence jubilates its history amid "Florence Days".
Religious establishments reflect the city's heritage. The city's Christian improve has a several historical churches dating from the beginning of the city.
Omaha hosts the only Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Nebraska, along with a momentous Jewish community.
Omaha's rich history in rhythm and blues, and jazz gave rise to a number of influential bands, including Anna Mae Winburn's Cotton Club Boys and Lloyd Hunter's Seranaders.
Today, the diverse culture of Omaha includes a range of performance venues, exhibitions, and musical heritage, including the historically momentous jazz scene in North Omaha and the undivided and influential "Omaha Sound". Contemporary music groups either positioned in or originally from Omaha include Mannheim Steamroller, Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Azure Ray, Tilly and the Wall and 311.
During the late 1990s, Omaha became nationally known as the place of birth of Saddle Creek Records, and the subsequent "Omaha Sound" was born from their bands' collective style. The Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame jubilates the city's long history of black music and the Strathdon Caledonia Pipe Band carries on a Scottish legacy.
Internationally famous composer Antonin Dvorak wrote his Ninth ("New World") Symphony in 1893 based on his impressions of the region after visiting Omaha's robust Czech community. In the reconstructionencircling World War I Valentin J.
In 1939, the world premiere of the film Union Pacific was held in Omaha, Nebraska and the accompanying three-day celebration drew 250,000 citizens .
The city's most extensive exposure can be accredited to Omaha native Alexander Payne, the Oscar-nominated director who shot parts of About Schmidt, Citizen Ruth and Election in the town/city and suburbs of Papillion and La Vista.
Its demolition in 2001 by the Nebraska Methodist Health System was unpopular, with objections from small-town historical and cultural groups and luminaries from around the world. The Dundee Theatre is the lone surviving single-screen movie theater in Omaha and still shows films. A recent evolution to the Omaha film scene was the addition of Film Streams's Ruth Sokolof Theater in North Downtown.
There are many new theaters opening in Omaha.
In addition to the five Douglas Theatres venues in Omaha, two more are opening, including Midtown Crossing Theatres, positioned on 32nd and Farnam Streets by the Mutual of Omaha Building.
Songs about Omaha include "Omaha" by Moby Grape, "Omaha", by the indie modern band Tapes 'n Tapes, "Omaha" by Counting Crows, "Omaha Celebration" by Pat Metheny, "Omaha" sung by Waylon Jennings, "Greater Omaha" by Desaparecidos, "Omaha Stylee" by 311 and "(Ready Or Not) Omaha Nebraska" by Bowling for Soup.
The 1935 winner of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing was titled Omaha, and after traveling the world the horse eventually retired to a farm south of the city.
Main article: Sports in Omaha, Nebraska Sports have been meaningful in Omaha for more than a century, and the town/city presently plays host to three minor-league experienced sports teams.
The Omaha Sports Commission is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization that coordinates much of the experienced and amateur athletic activeness in the city, including the 2008, 2012 and 2016 US Olympic Swimming Team Trials and the building of a new stadium in North Downtown. The University of Nebraska and the Commission co-hosted the 2008 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One Women's Volleyball Championship in December of that year. The 2016 Big 10 Baseball Championship was also played at the College World Series Stadium.
Omaha is also home to the Omaha Diamond Spirit, a collegiate summer baseball team that plays in the MINK league.
Baseball is played at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, soccer is played at Morrison Stadium, and basketball is played at the 18,000 seat Century - Link Center.
The Omaha Mavericks, representing the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), also play Basketball, Baseball and Soccer in NCAA Division I as members of The Summit League.
The Omaha Lancers, a United States Hockey League team play at the Ralston Arena. The Omaha Mavericks play in the on-campus Baxter Arena.
Omaha was home to a new expansion team in the United Football League that play from 2010 to 2011. The Omaha Beef indoor football team played at the Omaha Civic Auditorium until 2012 when they moved to the new Ralston Arena.
Main articles: Parks in Omaha and Trails in Omaha Omaha has a grow running improve and many miles of paved running and biking trails throughout the town/city and encircling communities.
The Omaha Marathon involves a half-marathon and a 10-kilometer (6.2 mi) race that take place annually in September. Omaha also has a history of curling, including multiple junior nationwide champions. The city's historic boulevards were originally designed by Horace Cleveland in 1889 to work with the parks to problematic a seamless flow of trees, grass and flowers throughout the city.
Florence Boulevard and Fontenelle Boulevard are among the remnants of this system. Omaha boasts more than 80 miles (129 km) of trails for pedestrians, bicyclists and hikers. They include the American Discovery Trail, which traverses the entire United States, and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail passes through Omaha as it travels 3,700 miles (5,950 km) westward from Illinois to Oregon.
Trails throughout the region are encompassed in elected plans for the town/city of Omaha, the Omaha urbane area, Douglas County, and long-distance coordinated plans between the municipalities of southeast Nebraska. The City Building in Downtown Omaha Omaha has a strong mayor form of government, along with a town/city council that is propel from seven districts athwart the city.
The longest serving mayor in Omaha's history was "Cowboy" Jim Dahlman, who served 20 years over eight terms.
He was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" because of the expand number of bars in Omaha amid his tenure. Dahlman was a close associate of political stature Tom Dennison. During Dahlman's tenure, the town/city switched from its initial strong-mayor form of government to a town/city commission government. In 1956, the town/city switched back. The City of Omaha administers twelve departments, including finance, police, human rights, libraries and planning. The Omaha City Council is the legislative branch and is made up seven members propel from districts athwart the city.
Omaha is one of only three metros/cities in Nebraska to use this option, out of 17 eligible. The City of Omaha is presently considering consolidating with Douglas County government. Although registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats in the 2nd congressional district, which includes Omaha, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opened three campaign offices in the town/city with 15 staff members to cover the state in fall 2008. Mike Fahey, the former Democratic mayor of Omaha, said he would do whatever it took to bring the district's electoral vote to Obama; and the Obama campaign considered the precinct "in play". Former Nebraska U.S.
In 2011, Nebraska lawmakers moved Offutt Air Force Base and the town of Bellevue an region with a large minority populace out of the Omaha-based 2nd District and shifted in the Republican-heavy Omaha suburbs in Sarpy County.
Main article: Crime in Omaha, Nebraska Further information: Gambling in Omaha, Nebraska Omaha's rate of violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants has been lower than the average rates of three dozen United States metros/cities of similar size.
Unlike Omaha, those metros/cities have experienced an increase in violent crime overall since 2003.
Rates for property crime have decreased for both Omaha and its peer metros/cities during the same time period. In 2006, Omaha was ranked for homicides as 46th out of the 72 metros/cities in the United States of more than 250,000 in population. As a primary industrial town/city into the mid-20th century, Omaha shared in civil tensions of larger metros/cities that accompanied rapid expansion and many new immigrants and migrants.
Persistent poverty resulting from ethnic discrimination and job losses generated different crimes in the late 20th century, with drug trade and drug abuse becoming associated with violent crime rates, which climbed after 1986 as Los Angeles gangs made affiliates in the city. Gambling in Omaha has been momentous throughout the city's history.
By the mid-20th century, Omaha reportedly had more illicit gambling per capita than any other town/city in the nation.
From the 1930s through the 1970s the city's gambling was controlled by an Italian criminal element. Today, gambling in Omaha is limited to keno, lotteries, and parimutuel betting, leaving Omahans to drive athwart the Missouri River to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where casinos are legal and there are various businesses operating presently.
It will allow the tribe to build a casino in Carter Lake, Iowa, which sits geographically on the west side of the Missouri River, adjoining to Omaha, where casinos are illegal. Main article: Education in Omaha, Nebraska Omaha Public Schools is the biggest enhance school precinct in Nebraska, with more than 47,750 students in more than 75 schools. After a contentious reconstructionof uncertainty, in 2007 the Nebraska Legislature allowed a plan to problematic a learning improve for Omaha-area school districts with a central administrative board. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha maintains various private Catholic schools with 21,500 students in 32 elementary schools and nine high schools. St.
Stephen the Martyr School at 168th and Q street in Omaha earned nationwide distinct ion when they received the U.S.
Omaha is also home to Brownell-Talbot School, the only preschool through undertaking 12, autonomous college preliminary school in the state of Nebraska.
Standing alone as its own school district, the Westside Community Schools, also known as District 66, is an award-winning precinct positioned in the heart of Omaha.
There are eleven universities and universities among Omaha's college studies establishments, including the University of Nebraska Omaha.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center is positioned in midtown Omaha and is home to the Eppley Cancer Center, one of 66 designated Cancer Centers by the National Cancer Institute in the United States.
The University of Nebraska College of Medicine, also positioned on the UNMC campus, is ranked 7th in the nation by US News and World Report for major care medical education. Omaha's Creighton University is ranked the top non-doctoral county-wide college in the Midwestern United States by U.S.
News and World Report. Creighton maintains a 132-acre (0.5 km2) ground just outside Downtown Omaha in the new North Downtown district, and the Jesuit institution has an enrollment of around 6,700 in its undergraduate, graduate, medical, and law schools.
There are more than 10 other universities and universities in Omaha in the Omaha metro area.
Main article: Media in Omaha, Nebraska The historic Omaha Star building along North 24th Street, listed on the National Register of Historic Places The town/city is the focus of the Omaha designated market area, and is the 76th biggest in the United States. The primary daily journal in Nebraska is the Omaha World-Herald, which is the biggest employee-owned journal in the United States. Weeklies in the town/city include the Midlands Business Journal (weekly company publication); American Classifieds (formerly Thrifty Nickel), a weekly classified newspaper; The Reader, as well as The Omaha Star.
Founded in 1938 in North Omaha, the Star is Nebraska's only black newspaper. Omaha's four tv news stations were found not to represent the city's ethnic composition in a 2007 study. Cox Communications provides cable tv services throughout the urbane area. First National Bank Tower in Downtown Omaha is the tallest building in the state.
Further information: List of tallest buildings in Omaha, Nebraska 3 best town/city in the United States to "live, work and play". Omaha's expansion has required the constant evolution of new urban transit framework that influence, allow and encourage the constant expansion of the city.
Retail natural gas and water enhance utilities in Omaha are provided by the Metropolitan Utilities District. Nebraska is the only enhance power state in the nation.
Electricity in the town/city is provided by the Omaha Public Power District. Public housing is governed by the Omaha Housing Authority, and enhance transit is provided by Metro Area Transit.
The City of Omaha maintains two undivided sewage treatment plants. Peoples Natural Gas, a division of Aquila, Inc., presently serves a several surrounding communities around the Omaha urbane area, including Plattsmouth. Further information: Railroads in Omaha and Trails in Omaha Omaha's central part in the history of transit athwart America earned it the nickname "Gate City of the West." Even with President Lincoln's decree that Council Bluffs, Iowa, be the starting point for the Union Pacific Railroad, assembly began from Omaha on the easterly portion of the first transcontinental barns . By the middle of the 20th century, Omaha was served by almost every primary barns .
Today, the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District jubilates this connection, along with the listing of the Burlington Train Station and the Union Station on the National Register of Historic Places.
First homed in the former Herndon House, the Union Pacific Railroad's corporate command posts have been in Omaha since the business began. Their new headquarters, the Union Pacific Center, was opened in Downtown Omaha in 2004.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service through Omaha.
Omaha's position as a transit center was finalized with the 1872 opening of the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge linking the transcontinental barns to the barns s terminating in Council Bluffs. In 1888, the first road bridge, the Douglas Street Bridge, opened.
Omaha's Missouri River road bridges are now entering their second generation, including the Works Progress Administration-financed South Omaha Bridge, now called Veteran's Memorial Bridge, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2006, Omaha and Council Bluffs announced joint plans to build the Missouri River Pedestrian Bridge, which opened in 2008. Omaha's Eppley Airfield, positioned in East Omaha Omaha is laid out on a grid plan, with 12 blocks to the mile with a north-to-south home numbering system. Omaha is the locale of a historic boulevard fitness designed by H.W.S.
Eppley Airfield, Omaha's airport, serves the region with over 4.2 million passengers in 2006. United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air and Frontier Airlines serve the airport with direct and connecting service.
General aviation airports serving the region are the Millard Municipal Airport, North Omaha Airport and the Council Bluffs Airport.
Offutt Air Force Base continues to serve as a military airbase; it is positioned at the southern edge of Bellevue, which in turn lies immediately south of Omaha.
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