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The origin of the name Milwaukee is disputed. One theory traces it to the Ojibwe word mino-akking, meaning "good land." Another links it to the Meskwaki word mahn-a-waukee, meaning "gathering place." The city itself claims the name comes from the Potawatomi word mahn-ah-wauk, meaning "council grounds."
Milwaukee has three recognized founding fathers: Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker. Juneau arrived first, in 1818. The three men's competing town settlements merged and Milwaukee was incorporated as a city on the 31st of January 1846, with Solomon Juneau elected as its first mayor.
Milwaukee earned the nickname "Brew City" because it was the number one beer-producing city in the world for many years, home to four of the world's largest breweries: Schlitz, Blatz, Pabst, and Miller. By 1856 there were more than two dozen breweries in the city, and Milwaukee retained the greatest brewing capacity in the world as late as 1981.
During the first sixty years of the 20th century, Milwaukee gave the Socialist Party of America its highest vote totals in the United States. The city elected three Socialist mayors - Emil Seidel, Daniel Hoan, and Frank Zeidler - and in 1910 sent Victor L. Berger to Congress as the first socialist congressman ever elected in the United States.
Milwaukee has consistently ranked among the most racially segregated large cities in the United States. Demographer William H. Frey, using 2010 census data, found Milwaukee had the highest level of black-white segregation of any of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the nation. As of 2019, at least three out of four Black residents would have needed to move to create racially integrated neighborhoods.
Summerfest is an annual lakefront music festival founded in Milwaukee in 1968, listed in the 1999 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest music festival in the world. It runs for 11 days and features 700-800 live acts across 12 stages. In 2017, it drew 831,769 attendees.