STOKES, LOUIS (23 Feb. 1925-18 Aug. 2015) was a prominent attorney and the first AFRICAN-AMERICAN congressman from Ohio when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, a position he ...

All tracks require 30 credit hours of graduate-level course work, which you can tailor to fit your area of interest. You can complete your degree in as few as three semesters by choosing coursework ...

UH&CS Leadership Team , Kimberly A. McBennett, MD, PhD Interim Chief Health Officer Director Clinical Medicine and Quality Improvement University He ...

NELA PARK, at Noble and Terrace roads in EAST CLEVELAND, is one of the earliest (if not the first) planned industrial research parks in the nation. It was conceived in 1910 by Franklin Terry and ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

The CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, one of the nation’s leading public library systems, opened its doors on 17 February 1869, under the provisions of an April 1867 act of the Ohio legislature that had been ...

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. The automotive industry includes the manufacture of automobiles, parts, and accessories. 20th-century Cleveland is part of a nearly worldwide automotive culture dependent on this ...

The EAST OHIO GAS CO. has supplied natural gas to the Cleveland area since receiving a controversial franchise from the city in 1902. STANDARD OIL CO. established the East Ohio Gas Co. to pipe natural ...

CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL grew in both size and responsibility to meet the needs of the expanding metropolis. Traditionally Cleveland has favored a large council to represent the interests of its diverse ...

CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE opened in Sept. 1963, 2 years after the Ohio legislature passed enabling legislation to create a statewide system of community colleges. Tri-C was designed to meet the need ...

MITTAL STEEL USA is the American subsidiary of Mittal Steel Company N.V., headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, which as of 2005 was the world's largest steel producer. Mittal Steel was formed ...

JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY was founded in 1886 as a liberal arts college for men, initially under the name St. Ignatius College. It was operated by priests of the Buffalo Mission of the German Province ...