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The cities' mutual antagonism was largely healed by the end of the 1960s, aided by the simultaneous arrival in 1961 of the Minnesota Twins of the American League and the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, both of which identified themselves with the state as a whole (the former explicitly named for both Twin Cities) rather than ...
The Williams Institute reported that the Twin Cities had an estimated 4.2-percent LGBT adult population in 2020. [259] In 2023, the Human Rights Campaign gave Minneapolis 94 points out of 100 on the Municipal Equality Index of support for the LGBTQ+ population. [260] Twin Cities Pride is held in May. [261]
Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal criteria, but twin cities are generally comparable in status and size, though not necessarily equal; a city and a substantially smaller suburb would not typically ...
This partial list of city nicknames in Minnesota compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Minnesota are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul in the U.S. state of Minnesota, most commonly referred to as the Twin Cities; Dallas-Fort Worth, in the U.S. state of Texas; Ballybofey and Stranorlar, in the Irish county of Donegal, often called the Twin Towns; Champaign–Urbana, in the U.S. state of Illinois, often called the Twin Cities
Higher home prices — and mortgage rates — mean the buyers of a typical Twin Cities-area house would now pay $1,000 more a month than three years ago, when rates were near record lows. So, the ...
It seemed like a perfect trade: A bland 1969 building at Washington and Hennepin avenues would be demolished for a 27-story apartment building. As you might suspect, some people wanted to save the ...
After 61 years in the capital, in 1961, the Washington Senators relocated to the Twin Cities of Minnesota, to be called the Twins, being the first major league baseball team to use a state in its geographical identifier name rather than the traditional city; Washington would get a new incarnation of the Senators to fill the void left by the ...