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The city of Seattle experienced protests over the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and 2021. Beginning on May 29, 2020, demonstrators took to the streets throughout the city for marches and sit-ins, often of a peaceful nature but which also devolved into riots.
Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district on a steep hill just east of Seattle's downtown business district, known for its prominent LGBT and counterculture communities and its vibrant nightlife. The Seattle Police Department had been protested against in the past.
Seattle today is physically similar to the Seattle of the 1960s, while the demographics have begun to shift over time. It is still filled with single-family households, with whites making up 64.9% of the population (down from a high of 91.6% in 1960), Asians 16.3%, two or more races 8.8%, Black 6.8%, and Hispanic 7.2%.
During this period, Seattle's downtown was in decline (as were many other downtowns across the nation, for much the same reason): people shopped in the suburbs, not in the city. The market for goods in the city's center was drying up. Seattle's solution was to host the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair.
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Seattle Athletic Club organized. [13] Seattle Theatre opens. [14] Curtis & Guptil photographers in business. [15] 1894 – The Argus newspaper begins publication. The Seattle Republican daily newspaper beings publication [16] 1895 – Seattle General Hospital established. 1898 – U.S. assay office opens. [17] 1899 The Seattle Star newspaper ...
A Seattle man says he was conned out of over $400,000 after he was convinced his home was in need of urgent repairs. The man, who only wanted to be identified by his first name David, was one of ...
Seattle (/ s i ˈ æ t əl / ⓘ see-AT-əl) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 755,078 in 2023, [3] it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the county seat of King County, the most populous county in Washington.