Downtown is the center of Chicago's financial, cultural, and commercial institutions and home to Grant Park and many of the city's skyscrapers.

Other live-music genre which are part of the city's cultural heritage include Chicago blues, Chicago soul, jazz, and gospel.

In 1944, one of the city's most enduring cultural hubs was inaugurated, Malmö Stadsteater ( Malmö Municipal Theatre ) with a repertory embracing both stage theatre, opera, musical, ballet, musical recitals and theatrical experiments.

Much of the city's cultural life has revolved around its large university community.

Major investments in renovation of the city's monuments, building new hotels ( including high-standard ones ), improvement in promotion, as well as launching new cultural and scientific events and facilities, give very good prospects for Toruń's tourism.

Dresden remains a major cultural centre of historical memory, owing to the city's destruction in World War II.

Today the legacy of the city's early European immigrant populations is evident in many social and cultural institutions in Downtown and South Omaha.

The city's historical and cultural attractions have been lauded by numerous national newspapers, including the Boston Globe and The New York Times.

The city's cultural centre organises a number of regular events, most notably the Medieval Market in July each year.

The city's main theatre and cultural venue is the Courtyard Centre for the Arts which was opened in 1998, replacing the New Hereford Theatre.

The city's most important cultural loss was that of the Romanesque church of Obermünster, which was destroyed in a March 1945 air raid and was never rebuilt ( the belfry survived ).

The status of the Black Sea Fleet has a strong influence over the city's business and cultural life.

Before being occupied by Romanian troops in 1941, a part of the city's population, industry, infrastructure and all cultural valuables possible were evacuated to inner regions of the USSR, and the retreating Red Army units destroyed as much as they could of Odessa harbour facilities left behind.

In the early 19th century, many Russian artists, officers and nobles were sent into exile in Siberia for their part in the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I. Irkutsk became the major center of intellectual and social life for these exiles, and much of the city's cultural heritage comes from them ; many of their wooden houses, adorned with ornate, hand-carved decorations, survive today, in stark contrast with the standard Soviet apartment blocks that surround them.

Brazilian architecture and foods are important to the city's cultural life.

The industry is a key component of the city's economic make-up with more than 10 % of all Berlin residents employed in cultural sectors.

The resulting conflict made at least two points of view available to the public and served as the impetus for some improvements to the city's infrastructure and cultural life.

NJPAC is involved in the construction of One Theater Square, a mixed-use skyscraper in the heart of the cultural district that is planned to include the city's tallest building.

Terrasa has a local newspaper, the Diari de Terrassa, that is published daily from Tuesday to Saturday, as well as several radio stations: Ràdio Terrassa / Cadena SER Vallès on 828 AM and 89. 4 FM, with more than 75 years of history behind it, being one of the pioneering radio stations in Catalonia and Spain ; the municipal radio ( Noucincpuntdos, 95. 2 FM ); and Radio Star de Terrassa, the city's cultural station, on 100. 5 FM, which was founded in 1984 and is one of the historic local radios of Catalonia.

He immersed himself in the city's literary and cultural life, studying art, visiting the National Gallery, attending the theatre, and writing prose and poetry.

Among the city's cultural attractions is the Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum & Black Veteran Archives.

They were interested in learning about the Swedish city's economic development efforts, cultural facilities, innovations in education and ability to attract visitors and businesses to the area.

The city's cultural institutions include the Reading Symphony Orchestra and its education project the Reading Symphony Youth Orchestra, the GoggleWorks Art Gallery, the Reading Public Museum and the Historical Society of Berks County.

The city's geographical riverside location, and noted cultural and historical heritage — particularly the baroque Tvrđa, one of the most immediately recognizable structures in the region — facilitated the development of tourism.

He reported that the city's contributions for animal care included $67,000 to the Women's S.P.C.A. ; ;

* Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center on the city's contributions to the Voyage.

New Deal programs made important contributions to the city's infrastructure and artistic legacy, including such key improvements as Vulcan's tower and Oak Mountain State Park.

Among the Jerusalem lodge's most noted contributions was the city's first free public library, Midrash Abarbanel, which became the nucleus of the National and University Library ; the first Hebrew kindergarten in Jerusalem ; and the purchase of land for a home for new immigrants, the village Motza near Jerusalem.

The city's most influential contributions to American popular music happened in the 1980s, when the city's music scene " expanded the state's cultural identity " and launched the careers of acclaimed performers like the multi-platinum soul singer Prince.

Although he had nothing to do with the Neptune, the theatre was dedicated to the memory of Beatles manager Brian Epstein by the city council in 1997, for his contributions to the city's cultural and musical scene.

Appealing to more than the city's elite, Merola raised 2441 contributions of $ 50 each from many " founding members ".

The novel fictionalises the lives of the immigrants whose contributions to building Toronto in the early 1900s never became part of the city's official history.

The combination of Rowland's natural design talent, Harvard education, and Detroit's healthy economy positioned him to make major contributions to the city's architecture.

The industrious Calvinist refugees from the southern Netherlands made substantial contributions to the city's commerce.

( McKay was one of Ottawa's founders, making huge contributions in many areas to the city's growth ).

The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce named Steinberg Man of the Year for 1964 for his contributions to the city's cultural life, and for leading the Pittsburgh Symphony on a triumphant tour of Europe and the Middle East.

Other displays include the city's British military history, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, and the culture and contributions of the area's Irish fishermen.

His contributions to zoning and height regulations were essential to New York's first laws governing this aspect of the city's architecture.

The city's Ethics Commission found in 1994 that Bernson had failed to disclose the source of $ 11, 000 in campaign contributions made by a private company and ordered him to repay the funds.

:" The mission of the Grand Forks Park District is to promote broad-based opportunities for all ages and abilities, to increase and enhance equal access of recreational benefits and participation in parks and recreation, to increase public awareness as to the healthful benefits of participation in parks and recreation, to promote beautification of the city's natural environment, to promote professionalism in the delivery of parks, recreation, and environmental services, and to increase the understanding of the contributions made by parks, recreation, and forestry to the economic development of our community.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

Claudius was the first to hold magnificent celebrations in honour of the city's anniversary, in 48 AD, 800 years after the founding of the city.

Ultimately, two of the league's western clubs went out of business during the first season and the Chicago Fire left that city's White Stockings impoverished, unable to field a team again until 1874.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

Fire protection was expanded in 1882, with the city's first 13 paid firefighters.

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

The city's first population boom came in 1872, with the establishment of an agricultural colony.

During these first few years Hellas was one of three or four area teams playing mainly at a municipal level while fighting against city rivals Bentegodi to become the city's premier football outfit.

After the firm's flotation in 1961, the landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel opened in Hong Kong in 1963 as the city's first five star hotel.

In August 2007, Jakarta held its first ever election to choose a governor, whereas previously the city's governors were appointed by the local house of representatives.

The city's major Projects include a Kabul cable car, connecting the city to Shirdarwaza mountain, a tunnel though mountains close to Kabul university to reduce traffic jams, building more flyovers in the city with the city's first fly-over being built with the help of Turkey ; in addition to providing more trucks and lorries for the municipality.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

The city's first suburbs were in the neighborhoods of Pendleton Heights and Quality Hill.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

Many of the city's finest buildings belong to this period and were built under the first three Bavarian kings.

One of the first actions of Macau's first governor, who arrived the following year, was to strengthen the city's defences, which included the construction of the Guia Fortress.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

Among the city's first new acts to be identified with punk rock was DMZ.

The Crucified, Tutu and the Pirates and Silver Abuse were among the city's first punk bands.

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).