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Dearborn is a city in Wayne County, Michigan, United States. It is an inner-ring suburb in Metro Detroit , bordering Detroit to the south and west, and roughly 7 miles (11.3 km) west of downtown Detroit .
In 1904 the City of Detroit had 900 Italians. [2] In Metro Detroit there were several thousand ethnic Italians by 1900. The concentrations of the population lived in Eastern Market and east of the area presently known as Greektown. Of those Italians in 1900 most originated from Genoa, Lombardy, and Sicily. Some Italians stayed in Detroit ...
Sterling Heights, Troy, Livonia, St. Clair Shores, Westland, Farmington Hills, Wixom, Fraser, Rochester Hills, Warren, and Dearborn all have ethnic Albanian populations toward or over 400, and are mostly over one percent of said city's populations. Sterling Heights has 3,500 Albanians, 2.5% of the city's population, and Troy has 1,000, 1.1%.
As of 2014, Susan Dabaja, the city council president of Dearborn, is a Muslim Arab-American and the majority of the members of the council are Arab. [58] In 2021 Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press reported that Yemeni Americans in Dearborn were advocating for more of a role in their city's government. [60]
A retired Marine who served during the war in Iraq finds himself fighting City Hall at home, after turning his garage in Dearborn, Mich., into an informal space for family and friends to gather.
Despite ranking 43rd for net losses, that’s better than Michigan has ranked in past years. In 2023, the index listed Michigan 46th. ... Migration out of Michigan continued in 2024. Elyse S. Apel ...
In 1999, architect William McDonough entered into an agreement with Ford Motor Company to redesign its 85-year-old, 1,212-acre (490 ha) Rouge River facility. [14] The roof of the 1.1-million-square-foot (100,000 m 2) Dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres (4.0 ha) of sedum, a low-growing groundcover.
In 1963, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the birth of Henry Ford, the Ford Foundation donated three million dollars to the City of Dearborn to construct a memorial library. On July 30, 1963, Ford's hundredth birthday, the Ford Motor Company deeded 15.3 acres (6.2 ha) of land to the City of Dearborn for the building. The library was ...