Lansing has a typically Midwestern humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfb ) that is influenced by the Great Lakes.

Downtown Lansing has a historic city market that is one of the oldest continuously operating farmers ' markets in the United States.

Lansing currently lies mostly within the boundaries of Michigan's 8th congressional district, which has been represented by Republican congressman Mike Rogers since 2001.

At the state level, Lansing is located in the 23rd district of the Michigan Senate, which has been represented by Democratic state senator Gretchen Whitmer since January 1, 2007.

General Motors has offices and a hi-tech manufacturing facility in Lansing and several manufacturing facilities immediately outside the city, as well, in nearby Lansing and Delta townships.

In May 2009 Sparrow announced that it now has its own helicopter service based at its downtown Lansing hospital's new $ 2. 5 million helipad.

Biegler has played heavily on the issue that he is " just a humble country lawyer " facing a " brilliant prosecutor from the big city of Lansing ", a factor which has played well with the jury.

DeWitt Township has three primary schools district ; DeWitt Public Schools, Bath Public Schools and Lansing Public Schools.

Since 2000, the township has entered into four 425 Agreements with the neighboring city of Lansing, which has resulted in the temporary transfer of of land to Lansing.

The Lansing Model Railroad Club has a large HO scale model railroad layout complete with cities, mountains, tunnels, forests, factories, and bridges.

* The city of Lansing is adjacent to the north and has incorporated land that was formerly within the township.

The northeastern section of the township is heavily industrialized on its western end ( west of Wood Road ), but since 2002 this section has become the ' downtown ' of Lansing Township with the construction of the Eastwood Towne Center, one of the largest shopping malls in Metropolitan Lansing, and the subsequent creation of the Lansing Township Downtown Development Authority to capture state and national funds for development.

It was originally a farming community, but has been entirely absorbed as a Lansing suburb.

Williamston is most notable for its antiques markets, and it has been promoted as a quaint, small town just outside the larger city of Lansing.

Hamburg has a " northern Michigan " vacationland feel while being located in Southeast Michigan within driving distance of Lansing, Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor.

Since 1998, East Lansing has expanded its borders through the use of 425 Agreements.

As of 2006, East Lansing has increased its size to.

Lansing Community College is located to the northeast, and features cooperative relationships with a number of other Universities around the state.

A few commuted from Lansing, and that number increased when a streetcar line was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to live in the then-rural area immediately around the campus.

Washington, D. C. is the number one end destination from Lansing, according to the Capital Region Airport Authority.

When the state highway system was first signed in 1919, the number was assigned to a highway that ran between Grand Rapids and Lansing.

Early availability of high-speed Internet in 1996, as well as the MSU, Cooley Law School, and Lansing Community College student body population, fostered an intellectual environment for information technology companies to incubate.

After acquiring the technology and parts from Ultimate Ears, Altec Lansing made further modifications to the designs.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

The Lansing area is headquarters to four major national insurance companies: Auto-Owners Insurance Company, Jackson National Life, the Accident Fund, and Michigan Millers Insurance Company.

The decision was made to split Viacom into two companies, which in turn led to a dismantling of the Paramount Studio / Paramount TV infrastructure, with the current Paramount, consisting only of the movie studio, retaining only about one-quarter its former size under Dolgen and Lansing.

The companies were recruited principally in: A at Monticello, Fremont, Bethel, Rockland, Forestburg, Liberty and Beaver Kill ; B at Bethel, Thompson, Fallsburg, Forestburg and Stormville ; C at Fallsburg, Rockland, Grahamville and Neversink ; D at Ithaca and Lansing ; E at Wurtsborough, Bridgeville, Monticello and Phillipsport ; F at Fremont, Callicoon, Jeffersonville, Rockland and Monticello ; G at Fremont, Bloomingburg, Neversink, Monticello, Thompson, Cochecton and Tusten ; H at Liberty, Monticello and Rockland ; I at Dryden and Cochecton ; K at Cochecton, Monticello, Tusten, Callicoon, Highland and Thompson.

Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers its technologies as DSP semiconductors and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics, and are currently used in products from companies including Sony, Sanyo, JVC, Toshiba, and Altec Lansing.

Altec Lansing later discontinued signing contracts with other companies, and instead introduced their earphones in 2008.

The college later developed degrees in health-related fields and opened sites in Lansing, Michigan and Flint, Michigan.

Lansing and Muller ( 1964 and 1967 ) at the Survey Research Center worked in cooperation with the Chapel Hill Group in developing some of this latter information.

He was vice chairman of the board of directors of the Emerald BioAgriculture Corporation, an agriculture biotechnology company in Lansing, Michigan, and since 1998, Vice Chairman of the WSFS Financial Corporation.

* 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress ( d. 1972 )

* 1966 – Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.

" Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing.

Thus, a week of Beetle Bailey would arrive at the Lansing State Journal in two sheets, printed much larger than the final version and ready to be cut apart and fitted into the local comics page.

Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.

The AES Cayuga electrical generating station operates in the Town of Lansing, on the east shore of Cayuga Lake.

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

* 1754 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman ( d. 1829 )

Jackson is a city located along Interstate 94 in the south central area of the U. S. state of Michigan, about west of Ann Arbor and south of Lansing.

United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919.

Lansing () is the capital of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Lansing is the only U. S. state capital ( among the 47 located in counties ) that is not also a county seat.

The county seat of Ingham County is Mason, but the county maintains some offices in Lansing.

The area that is now Lansing was originally spotted by explorer Hugh Howard in 1790 while canoeing the Grand River.

The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as " Township 4 North Range 2 West " in February 1827 in what was then dense forest.

In the winter of 1835 and early 1836, two brothers from New York plotted the area now known as REO Town just south of downtown Lansing and named it " Biddle City.