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Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
Los Angeles County is one of the original counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. [8] The county originally included parts of what are now Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Tulare, Ventura, and Orange counties. In 1851 and 1852, Los Angeles County stretched from the coast to the state line of Nevada. [9]
Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1] [2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of major French football club Olympique de Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3]
On August 18, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12 to 2 in favor of Mayor Karen Bass's proposal to purchase the Mayfair Hotel and use it as interim housing for homeless people in the city. The city's plan included $60 million in funds for the purchase of the property and an additional $23 million for upgrades. [7]
Hangar No. 1 was the first structure at LAX, built in 1929 and restored in 1990. It remains in use. [13]In 1926, the Los Angeles City Council and the Chamber of Commerce recognized the need for the city to have its own airport to tap into the fledgling, but quickly growing, aviation industry.
In 1892–1893 Ferguson was the complainant in an unsuccessful suit against the City of Los Angeles to halt the sale of bonds that financed the purchase of the private Los Angeles Water Company, eventually turning it into a municipal utility. [2] He was on the first board of directors of the Union Bank of Savings in Los Angeles in 1893. [3]
With the support of the Los Angeles Times, a special LAPD Red Squad arrested so many strikers that the city's jails were soon filled. Broadway in the Historic Core 1917. Some 1,200 dock workers were corralled in a special stockade in Griffith Park. The Times wrote approvingly that "stockades and forced labor were a good remedy for IWW terrorism."
The San Fernando Building is an Italian Renaissance Revival style building built in 1906 on Main Street in the Historic Core district of downtown Los Angeles, California.It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, converted into lofts in 2000, and declared a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2002.