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Details from the Detroit bankruptcy filing. The city of Detroit, Michigan, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013. It is the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history by debt, estimated at $18–20 billion, exceeding Jefferson County, Alabama's $4-billion filing in 2011. [1]
On July 18, 2013, the restructuring expert did just that, making Detroit the largest city in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy. “Bankruptcy is a miserable process," Orr, 65, told The Associated ...
Detroit 1-8-7 premiered on Fox Crime in Spain, where it is known simply as Detroit, on November 15, 2010. [54] On November 29, 2010 Variety reported that Canal+ has acquired rights to the series and will be showing it in France beginning on January 27, 2011. [55] Detroit 1-8-7 is shown on the national broadcast station RTÉ 2 in Ireland. [56]
Detroit auto show begins. Area of city: 41 square miles. 1909 - Ford Building constructed. 1911: Chevrolet opens its first factory in Detroit. This was significant in the birth of Detroit as the center of the American automobile industry, something that became huge in the city's economy and overall identity. 1912 Navin Field (baseball park) opens.
When Detroit became the largest municipality to go bankrupt in 2013, it had fallen hard from its glory days of the early to mid 20th century, when Henry Ford’s arrival and creation of the first ...
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Detroit became notorious for violent crime in the 1970s and 1980s. Dozens of violent black street gangs gained control of the city's large drug trade, which began with the heroin epidemic of the 1970s and grew into the larger crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and early 1990s. Numerous major criminal gangs were founded in Detroit, dominating ...
Shark Tank (based on the Dragon's Den reality format) became a midseason sleeper hit in the spring of 2010; the following season, it became the tentpole of the network's Friday night schedule, paired with 20/20 and the later addition of sitcom Last Man Standing to gradually help make ABC a strong competitor against CBS's Friday drama-reality ...