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02/03/2007 | By 1986, Cleveland was not only out of default but was named an All-America City for a second, third, and fourth time. Voinovich then made a successful run for the governorship of Ohio. Voinovich's successor was another progressive figure in Cleveland politics and the second African American to become mayor, Michael R. White. Redevelopment within the city limits under White was strongest in the downtown area near the Gateway complexconsisting of Jacobs Field and Quicken Loans Arenaand near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Cleveland Browns Stadium. White's tenure as mayor was arguably the longest. In 2001, he declined from running for a fourth term and retired to an alpaca farm near Newcomers town, Ohio.Selected famous natives and residents:
Jim Backus actor;Drew Carey actor and comedian;Dorothy Dandridge actress;Ruby Dee actress;Phil Donahue talk-show host;Joel Grey actor;Arsenio Hall talk-show host;Margaret Hamilton actress;Philip Johnson architect;Henry Mancini composer;Burgess Meredith actor;Paul Newman actor;Carl Stokes jurist.Cleveland is the corporate headquarters of many large companies such as National City Corporation, Eaton Corporation, Forest City Enterprises, Sherwin Williams Company, and KeyCorp. NASA maintains a facility in Cleveland, the Glenn Research Center. Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the world, traces its origins to Cleveland, and its Cleveland office remains the firm's largest.Cleveland has also become a world leader in health care and health sciences. The world famous Cleveland Clinic, the area's largest employer, is one of the highest ranked hospitals in the United States as tabulated by U.S. News & World Report.Cleveland's healthcare industry also includes University Hospitals of Cleveland, a noted competitor of the Clinic's, which is ranked number one in cancer care,and MetroHealth medical center.
AND THE HOME OF ROCKN ROLL studios of WJW Radio, where disc jockey Alan Freed purportedly first coined the term "rock and roll".Additionally, Cleveland is home to the Cleveland Orchestra, widely considered one of the finest orchestras in the world, and often referred to as the finest in the United States.It is one of the "Big Five" major orchestras in the United States. The Orchestra plays in Severance Hall during the winter and at Blossom Music Center during the summer.Cleveland also served as the location for several noteworthy movies, including The Fortune Cookie (1967) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, the Academy Award-winning The Deer Hunter (1978), and the holiday favorite A Christmas Story (1983).Scenes for the upcoming movie SpiderMan 3 were filmed in Cleveland in April 2006.Cleveland is the lifelong home of cartoonist Harvey Pekar and setting for most of his autobiographical comic books. Additionally, the city was also the setting for the popular sitcom, The Drew Carey Show which starred Cleveland-native Drew Carey.The city is home to two airports. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is the city's major facility and a large international airport that serves as one of three main hubs for Continental Airlines. It holds the distinction of having the first airport-to-downtown rapid transit connection, established in 1968. In 1930, the airport was the site of the first airfield lighting system and the first air traffic control tower. |
