Dubuque, Iowa Dubuque, Iowa Downtown Dubuque, Iowa, Oct 2008 Downtown Dubuque, Iowa, Oct 2008 Flag of Dubuque, Iowa Flag Official seal of Dubuque, Iowa Official logo of Dubuque, Iowa Nickname(s): "The Key City", "City of Five Flags", "Masterpiece on the Mississippi," "The Scenic Sunshine City" Dubuque, Iowa is positioned in the US Dubuque, Iowa - Dubuque, Iowa County Dubuque Dubuque Listeni/d bju k/ is the governmental center of county of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, positioned along the Mississippi River.
This town/city lies at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a region locally known as the Tri-State Area.
It is one of the several large metros/cities in Iowa with hills, and a tourist destination featuring the city's unique architecture and river location.
Dubuque has long been a center of manufacturing, but the economy interval quickly and diversified to other areas in the first years of the 21st Century.
By 2005, the town/city led the state and the Midwest in job growth, ranking as the 22nd fastest-growing economy in the US. Alongside industry, the town/city has large community care, education, tourism, publishing, and financial service sectors.
6.1 Dubuque Metropolitan Area The first permanent settler in what is now Dubuque was Quebecois pioneer Julien Dubuque, who appeared in 1785.
Control of Louisiana and Dubuque's mines shifted briefly back to France in 1800, then to the United States in 1803, following the Louisiana Purchase.
Saint Mary's, one of 11 Catholic churches in Dubuque.
The current City of Dubuque was titled after Julien Dubuque, settled at the southern end of a large flat plain adjoining to the Mississippi River.
Dubuque became a center for the timber trade because of its adjacency to forests in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and was later dominated by various millworking businesses. Also meaningful were boat building, brewing, and later, the barns industry.
Between 1860 and 1880, Dubuque was one of the 100 biggest urban areas in the United States. Iowa's first church was assembled by Methodists in 1834.
The city's large Roman Catholic congregations led to its designation as the seat of the newly established Archdiocese of Dubuque.
Gonner (1835-1892), a Catholic immigrant from Pfaffenthal in Luxembourg, established the Catholic Publishing Company of Dubuque, Iowa.
The town/city has encouraged evolution of the America's River Project's tourist attractions in the Port of Dubuque, the expansion of the city's colleges, and the continued expansion of shopping centers, such as Asbury Plaza. 2001-1st recipient of the Vision Iowa Grant, awarded for $40 million to revitalize the Port of Dubuque.
2006-Urban Pioneer Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in recognition of Dubuque's 20-year commitment to the revitalization of the city's center.
June 2007-All-America City Award, one of 10 metros/cities recognized nationally. Dubuque received the award for its commitment to research-based, market driven economic evolution in helping expanded the small-town economy.
2009-"America's Crown Community Award," by American City and Country Magazine, for collaboration that resulted in IBM's decision to locate a new global technology service bringy center in Dubuque.
In 2010-Forbes has chose Dubuque as the best small town/city to raise a family in the country.
2010-Greater Dubuque Development was recognized by the Mid-American Economic Development Council for its programs in Business Retention and Expansion and Workforce Development.
(Dubuque was the only town/city from the hemisphere on the list.) 2012- Second All-America City Award, one of 10 metros/cities recognized nationally.All-America City Award 2013- Third All-America City Award, one of 10 metros/cities recognized nationally.
Downtown Dubuque is the locale of the city's central company precinct and many of its government and cultural establishments.
It is the center of Dubuque's transit and commercial sectors, and functions as the core to the various outlying districts and neighborhoods.
It is positioned in the east-central portion of the city, along the Mississippi River, and includes all of the region north of Maus Park, south of 17th Street, east of the bluffline, and west of the river.
An region of special note inside Downtown Dubuque is the Port of Dubuque, which has seen a massive amount of new investment and new construction.
Eagle Point Park in Dubuque's North End.
Dubuque's North End region was first settled in the late 19th century by working-class German immigrants to the city.
The German-American improve in Dubuque sought to establish their own German Catholic churches, separate from the Irish Catholic churches in Dubuque's downtown and South End.
Today, the region still retains its working-class roots, and is still home to some of the biggest factories operating in Dubuque.
The South End has been the traditional neighborhood of Irish-Americans in the city, and became known as "Little Dublin," specifically centered around southern portions of Downtown Dubuque.
Irish culture in Dubuque also revolves around the city's Irish Catholic churches, namely: St.
Today[when?], the South End is much larger, and includes all of the territory south of Dodge Street, east of Fremont Avenue but including areas of west of it, and north of the Key West area.
The South End has many of the city's "old cash" neighborhoods, especially along South Grandview and Fremont Avenues, and around the Dubuque Golf & Country Club.
Dubuque's West End is a large, mostly suburban region settled almost entirely after the Second World War.
The West End is not clearly defined, but is generally considered to include all of the suburban-style expansion west of North Grandview Avenue, the University of Dubuque, and the Valentine Park neighborhood.
The region is home to a wide range of mostly middle-class neighborhoods and town/city parks, but also includes many of the city's biggest schools, industrialized parks, and all of its large shopping centers.
Climate data for Dubuque, Iowa There are a number of notable parks in Dubuque, especially Eagle Point Park and the Mines of Spain State Recreation Area.
The Grand River Center overlooks the Mississippi River in the Port of Dubuque.
Dubuque's waterfront features the Ice Harbor and just north of it, the Diamond Jo Casino and Grand River Event Center.
Each summer the Colts and Dubuque host "Music on the March", a Drum Corps International-sanctioned marching competition at Dubuque Senior High School.
Dubuque is the second-smallest town/city in the country to support a World Class drum corps. The town/city is home of the Dubuque Fighting Saints.
From 2001-2010 The Dubuque Thunderbirds replaced the Fighting Saints playing in the Tier III Junior A Central States Hockey League at the Five Flags Center.
Dubuque's daily newspaper, the Telegraph Herald (or the "TH", as it is known locally), had a daily circulation of nearly 31,000 as of January 27, 2007. Several other meaningful papers and journals also operate in the city, including Tri-State Business Times (monthly company paper), 365ink Magazine (bi-weekly alt/cultural magazine), Julien's Journal (monthly lifestyle magazine), the Dubuque Advertiser (advertisement paper) and the "Tri-States Sports Look" (local sports publication).
Dubuque and encircling areas are in the Cedar Rapids/Waterloo/Dubuque broadcast media market, which is monitored by the A.C.
For years, Dubuque had a small-town TV news station (KFXA/KFXB Fox 28/40) until 2004, when that station became an partner of CTN.
Currently, the Dubuque-based TV news is veiled by KWWL-TV7 (Waterloo), and KCRG-TV9 (Cedar Rapids); both operate news agencys in the city, and most of the city's primary stories are veiled by those stations.
Several movies have been filmed in and around Dubuque, including: Various scenes from Field of Dreams (1989) were filmed in Dubuque, with the majority of the recording (and the actual field from the movie) positioned in close-by Dyersville, Iowa.
For many years, Dubuque's economy was centered on manufacturing companies such as Deere and Company and Flexsteel Industries.
There are a several major companies which are either headquartered in Dubuque, or have a momentous existence in the city.
Dubuque Community School District (1,946) Mercy Medical Center - Dubuque (1,000) City of Dubuque (691) Dubuque County (365) The town/city created over 10% of the new jobs in Iowa in 2005. Also, the number of jobs in Dubuque County has reached new all-time highs, with over 57,000 citizens working in non-farming jobs.
Dubuque is the chief town in the Dubuque urbane area.
The Dubuque Area is the general region encompassing Dubuque, Iowa.
The region includes Dubuque County exclusively, and un- officially, but locally includes: Jackson County, Iowa, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Grant County, Wisconsin.
The official populace of the Dubuque County was 93,653 as of the 2010 populace estimates. Although, if you include the unofficial counties, the area's populace is near 190,000.
East Dubuque - East Dubuque is sometimes called the Illinois Bar Capital.
Most East Dubuquers work in either Galena, or Dubuque.
Asbury - At 4,170, Asbury is the second biggest city in Dubuque County, surpassing Dyersville, Iowa in 2010.
Asbury is a prime and vital suburb of the Dubuque area.
Asbury has advanced mass commercial districts along the Northwest Arterial, Highway 32 in Dubuque.
Further information: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque The town/city also played a major part in the expansion of the Roman Catholic Church into the Western United States, as it was the administrative center for Catholics in what is now Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Many meaningful Catholic theological leaders have lived in Dubuque, including Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, Bishop Mathias Loras, Clement Smyth, and Mother Mary Frances Clarke.
In 2010, Catholic adherents who regularly attended services made up about 53% of Dubuque County residents. This contrasts with Iowa as a whole, which was about 17% Catholic in 2010. The town/city proper is home to 52 different churches (11 Catholic, 40 Protestant, 1 Orthodox), 1 Jewish Jewish church, and 1 mosque. In addition to churches, 5 theological colleges, 4 region convents, and a close-by abbey and monastery add to the city's theological importance.
Pius X Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa), Minor (College) Seminary for Roman Catholic men discerning a call to ordained priesthood, the University of Dubuque, with the Presbyterian Church USA, and the Wartburg Theological Seminary, with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Dubuque is the command posts of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque, which directly administers 1/3 of Iowa's territory for the church, and is the head of the Ecclesiastical Province of Dubuque, the entire state of Iowa.
The City of Dubuque operates on the council-manager form of government, employing a full-time town/city manager and part-time town/city council.
Van Milligen, runs the day-to-day operations of the city, and serves as the city's executive leader.
Dubuque has been using its city-owned Community Broadband Network to turn into a smart city.
The City of Dubuque Sustainability Coordinator, Cori Burbach, stated this was "for educating people and implementing behavior shifts that they control based on the data these applications provide".
Policy and financial decisions are made by the town/city council, which serves as the city's legislative body.
The town/city is divided into 4 electoral wards and 21 precincts, as stated in Chapter 17 of the Dubuque City Code. In the Iowa General Assembly, Dubuque is represented[when?] by Senator Pam Jochum (D) in the Iowa Senate, and Representatives Charles Isenhart (D), and Abby Finkenauer (D) in the Iowa House of Representatives.At the federal level, it is inside Iowa's 1st congressional district, represented by Rod Blum (R-Dubuque) in the U.S.
Dubuque, and all of Iowa, are represented by U.S.
City Council of Dubuque, Iowa At times, Dubuque was called "The State of Dubuque" because the political climate in Dubuque was very different from the rest of Iowa.
Notably, however, at the turn of the twentieth century the United States Congress was led by two Dubuque Republicans.
Dubuque is served by the Dubuque Community School District, which covers roughly the easterly half of Dubuque County and enrolled 10,735 students in 20 school buildings in 2006.
Public high schools in Dubuque include Dubuque Senior High School and Hempstead High School.
Most[quantify] private schools are run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The Archdiocese oversees the Holy Family Catholic Schools, which operates 11 schools in the city, including nine early childhood programs, four elementary schools (one of which is a Spanish Immersion program), one middle school, and one high school, Wahlert Catholic High School.
Dubuque also has one Lutheran Church Missouri Synod affiliated elementary school, the Dubuque Lutheran School.
Dubuque is home to a large number of college studies establishments.
Loras College and Clarke University are two of the three both four-year universities directed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque.
Protestant universities in the town/city include the University of Dubuque, which is associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Emmaus Bible College, connected with the Plymouth Brethren movement.
Pius X Seminary (Roman Catholic, associated with Loras College), the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), and Wartburg Theological Seminary (Lutheran ).
Other schools in the region include Northeast Iowa Community College, which operates its biggest campus in close-by Peosta, Iowa, and has a satellite ground in Dubuque, Divine Word College Seminary in Epworth, Iowa and Capri Cosmetology College, in Dubuque.
Dubuque is the community care center of a large region covering easterly Iowa, northwestern Illinois, and southwestern Wisconsin.
On March 15, 2012, the Commonwealth Fund released its first Scorecard on Local Health System Performance; it ranked Dubuque second in the nation. The town/city is home to two primary hospitals that, together, have 421 beds.
Mercy Medical Center - Dubuque is the biggest hospital in the town/city with 263 beds, and one of only three in Iowa to achieve "Magnet Hospital" status.
Finley is JCAHO accredited, and as of 2007 had 158 beds. It is unofficially Dubuque's "cancer hospital," as it has momentous oncology-related facilities, including the Wendt Regional Cancer Center. The hospital ground has period in recent years, with the assembly of a several new buildings.
Medical Associates Clinic is the earliest multi-specialty group practice clinic in Iowa, and presently operates two primary outpatient clinics in Dubuque, its "East" and "West" campuses.
It is affiliated with Mercy Medical Center Dubuque, and also operates its own HMO, Medical Associates Health Plans. Affiliated with the Finley Hospital is Dubuque Internal Medicine, which as of 2007 was Iowa's biggest internal medicine group practice clinic. Highway 20, is the city's busiest east-west thoroughfare, connecting to Rockford (and I-39/I-90) and Chicago, Illinois to the east, over the Julien Dubuque Bridge.
Highways 61 and 52 both connect Dubuque with the Twin Cities (Minnesota) to the north, with 61 connecting to Davenport, Iowa (and I-74/I-80), and 52 connecting to Clinton, Iowa via U.S.
Highway 151 joins Dubuque with Madison, Wisconsin (and I-39/I-90/I-94) (via the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge) to the northeast and Cedar Rapids, Iowa to the southwest.
Iowa State Highway 3 begins in Dubuque along a shared route with Highway 52, and joins the town/city with central and Iowa.
Eventually, this 4-lane highway will be extended southeast, to connect with highways 151 & 61 near Key West, Iowa and the Dubuque Regional Airport and will be called the "Southwest Arterial." Dubuque Regional Airport The Dubuque Regional Airport Dubuque and its region are served by the general-aviation Dubuque Regional Airport (IATA: DBQ, ICAO: KDBQ).
Northwest Airlines county-wide partner Mesaba operating under Northwest Airlink used to have daily service to Dubuque.
The airport's operator, the City of Dubuque, continues[when?] to court additional carriers to add service to the airport. The Dubuque Regional Airport has reported steadily increasing passenger numbers over the years, and, up until recently[when?], had service from 3 different carriers before to 9/11.
In early November 2007, it was announced that October 2007 was the best month ever for American Eagle airline at the Dubuque Regional Airport, as stated to Robert Grierson, Dubuque Regional Airport manager: "We had 4,510 total revenue passenger enplanements; that is a record for American Eagle in Dubuque.
Currently, a $23 million new terminal is being assembled to modernize and grew the airport. Improvements include a larger terminal, new access road, and period aviation parking. The new terminal at the Dubuque Regional Airport is expected to be opening in 2016.
In Dubuque, enhance transit is provided by the town/city transit division The Jule.
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