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On July 14, 1999, at approximately 5:12 pm, the Big Blue collapsed during the construction of the Miller Park (now American Family Field) baseball stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a load of over 450 tonnes (440 long tons; 500 short tons) on the hook.
The Brewers opened the 1999 season intending to bid farewell to their old park. On July 14, three construction workers at the Miller Park site were killed in the collapse of the site's "Big Blue" crane while attempting to install a 400-ton roof panel. A good part of the construction site was also damaged as a result.
Some Milwaukee fans commemorated the occasion by making unofficial t-shirts that said, "The Cleveland Indians of Milwaukee; Established 1989, Re-established 2007." Hurricane Ike 's landfall in Houston forced the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros to play a two-game series at American Family Field on Sunday, September 14 and Monday, September 15 ...
Using aerial photographs of Milwaukee County taken between 1937 and 2020 and collected by the Milwaukee County Land Information Office, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel stitched together timelapses ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel front page on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. "In Wisconsin, Blacks [sic] between the ages of 15 and 24 are 18 times more likely to die from homicide than their white peers.
Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski discusses the investigation into the January 15 death of of Jolene Waldref during a press conference at the Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department ...
Teamwork is a public sculpture by Omri Amrany located at American Family Field west of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Teamwork is cast in bronze and honors Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr, the three Iron Workers Local 8 members killed by the Big Blue Crane collapse during the construction of the new baseball stadium. [1]
Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. July 30, 2024 at 1:45 PM. Suzanne Spencer, shown in a 2022 portrait, is leaving her morning news anchor job at WITI-TV (Channel 6) in Milwaukee.