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Detroit, as seen from Windsor, Canada. The following is a list of people from Detroit, Michigan. This list includes notable people who were born, have lived, or worked in and around Detroit as well as its metropolitan area.
John Gallagher was born in New York City. [4] His first role was at the City News Bureau of Chicago , a cooperative news agency where he was able to learn about journalism while on the job. [ 5 ] Gallagher joined the Democrat and Chronicle daily newspaper in Rochester, New York in 1978. [ 5 ]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
As of January 1, 2016, under the terms of the City of Detroit's municipal bankruptcy the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) was created with a $50 million annual lease agreement to the City of Detroit for 40 years, while the DWSD bifurcated to focus its services specifically on the water and sewer customers within only the city of Detroit. [2]
The Charles C. Trowbridge House is located at 1380 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It is the oldest documented building in the city of Detroit; [ 3 ] it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974 [ 2 ] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The Detroit Free Press headline that read, "Slim Shady Made Lasting Impressions," is the latest move by the Detroit native to drum up promotion for the album, according to Complex.
Scott was left a sizable fortune by his father who invested in Detroit real estate. [2] According to contemporaries, Scott gambled and told off-color stories. He was described by twentieth-century author W. Hawkins Ferry as a "vindictive, scurrilous misanthrope" [3] who attempted to intimidate his business competitors and when this was unsuccessful, he filed suit.
He had been hospitalized at DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital for two weeks before his death at 7:58 a.m., his longtime publicist told the Detroit Free Press. He was 82.