Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio City of Akron Flag of Akron, Ohio Flag Official seal of Akron, Ohio Nickname(s): Rubber City, City of Invention, Rubber Capital of the World (historical) Akron is positioned in Ohio Akron - Akron Akron / kr n/ is the fifth-largest town/city in the U.S.
The Akron, OH Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA) covers Summit and Portage counties, and in 2010 had a populace of 703,200. It is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area, which in 2013 had a populace of 3,501,538, ranking 15th.
Due to Eliakim Crosby beginning "North Akron" (Cascade) in 1833, "South" was added to its name until the two consolidated into an incorporated village in 1836.
It has had many nicknames, three of which are "Rubber Capital of the World", "Rubber City" and "City of Invention".
Akron became a manufacturing center owing to its locale on the canal, as well as being connected to various the rest and barns lines.
The town/city is home to the All-American Soapbox Derby, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, Akron City Hospital (known for Le - Bron James and Stephen Curry), the Goodyear Polymer Center, and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).
It is also the former home of Goodrich, Firestone, General Tire, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, National Marble Tournament, Professional Bowlers Association, Women's Professional Mud Wrestling, and first National Football League Champions the Akron Pros. Listed by Newsweek as one of ten Information Age high tech havens, it was awarded by the National Civic League and National Arbor Day Foundation. Residents Frank and Charles Menches have a disputed claim of inventing the hamburger thus the annual nationwide festival is hosted in the city.
Notable historical affairs that occurred in the town/city includes the Akron School Law of 1847 creating the K-12 system, and Sojourner Truth giving her Ain't I A Woman? The popularization of the church architectural Akron Plan, the goiter prevention iodized salt Akron Experiment, City of Akron v.
Akron Center for Reproductive Health, and portions of the 2014 Gay Games also occurred.
Akron is known for the rubber, tire, and airship industries among others, including the trucking, stoneware, sewage pipe, fishing tackle, farming equipment, mining, match, zipper, and toy industries. With a populace increase of 201.8% amid the 1910s, it became the country's fastest-growing city.
To build the Channelwood Village region of Akron.
Although Akron was part of the Underground Railroad while active, the town/city was also part of the country's biggest small-town chapter of the Ku Klux Klan having many town/city officials as members which Wendell Willkie successfully opposed before becoming the 1940 Republican nominee for President.
Original town plot of Akron The name derived from the Greek word signifying a summit or high point. Laid out in December 1825, where the South part of the Downtown, Akron neighborhood now is; Irish workers working on the Ohio Canal assembled approximately 100 cabins close-by in autumn.
Because of Eliakim Crosby's beginning of "North Akron" (Cascade) in the Northern portion of what is now Downtown Akron in the year 1833, "South" was added to Akron's name up until about 3 years later when the two were consolidated and became an incorporated village in 1836. In 1840 Summit County formed from portions of Portage, Medina, and Stark counties.
Akron replaced Cuyahoga Falls as its governmental center of county a year later and opened a canal connecting to Beaver, Pennsylvania, helping give birth to the stoneware, sewage pipe, fishing tackle, and farming equipment industries. In 1844, abolitionist John Brown moved into the John Brown House athwart the street from company partner Colonel Simon Perkins who lived in the Perkins Stone Mansion.
The Akron School Law of 1847 began the K-12 undertaking school system, which presently is used in every U.S.
Also in 1847 the Akron Public Schools was founded, and also the very first School was assembled which is now a exhibition positioned on Broadway Street near the Corner with Exchange in what would have been initial Akron before to the 1836 consolidation . When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously bringed her speech titled Ain't I A Woman?, at the Universalist Old Stone Church.
Buchtel established Buchtel College in 1870, retitled the University of Akron in 1913.
Akron incorporated as a town/city in 1865. Philanthropist Lewis Miller, Walter Blythe, and architect Jacob Snyder designed the widely used Akron Plan, debuting it on Akron's First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872. Numerous Congregational, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches assembled between the 1870s and World War I use it. In 1883, a small-town journalist began the undivided toy trade by beginning the Akron Toy Company.
In 1895, the first long distance electric stockyards , the Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad, began service. On August 25, 1889, the Boston Daily Globe referred to Akron with the nickname "Summit City". To assist small-town police, the town/city deployed the first police car in the U.S.
See also: Akron Rubber Strike of 1936 The Riot of 1900 resulted in town/city officials being assaulted, two deaths, plus Columbia Hall and the Downtown Fire station (now the City Building since 1925) burning to the ground. The American trucking trade was birthed through Akron's Rubber Capital of the World era when the four primary tire companies Goodrich Corporation (1869), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (1898), Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (1900), and General Tire (1915) were headquartered in the city.
The various jobs the rubber factories provided for deaf citizens led to Akron being nicknamed the "Crossroads of the Deaf". On Easter Sunday 1913, Akron's total rainfall was recorded at 9.55 inches resulting in a flood which killed five people and finished the Ohio and Erie Canal system.
From 1916 1920 10,000 schoolgirls took part in the prosperous Akron Experiment, testing iodized salt to prevent goiter in what was known as the "Goiter Belt". The Akron & National Marble Tournament was created in 1923, by Roy W.
Howard, being owned by the Akron District Marbles Tournament and the Akron Beacon Journal sometime before it ended permanently in the 1960s.
Likewise, Harvey Firestone assembled the Firestone Park neighborhood for his employees. During the 1910 1920 decade Akron became a boom town being America's quickest burgeoning city with a 201.8% increase in population.
In 1929 and 1931 Goodyear's subsidiary Goodyear-Zeppelin Company produced two airships for the United States Navy, the USS Akron ZR-4 and the USS Macon ZR-5.
Goodyear assembled a number of blimps for the Navy amid WWII and later for advertising purposes. Akron again interval when Kenmore was took in by voter approval on November 6, 1928.
Found hiding under a bed at one of his hideouts in the city, notorious bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd was arrested under the name "Frank Mitchell" in March 1930. Goodyear became America's top tire manufacturer after merging with The Kelly-Springfield Tire Company in 1935. Lasting five weeks and consisting of roughly 5,000 strikers including union sympathizers from other factories and neighboring states, the Akron Rubber Strike of 1936 successfully used "sit-down" tactic being organized by the United Rubber Workers. During the 1950s 60s Akron surged as use of the automobile did.
By the early 1990s, Goodyear was the last primary tire manufacturer based in Akron.
Even with the number of rubber workers decreasing by approximately half from 2000 07, Akron's research in polymers attained an global reputation. It now centers the Polymer Valley which consist of 400 polymer-related companies, of which 94 were positioned in the town/city itself. Research is concentrated at the University of Akron which is home to the Goodyear Polymer Center and the National Polymer Innovation Center, and the College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering.
Because of its contributions to the Information Age, Newsweek's listed Akron fifth of ten high tech havens in 2001. In 2008 "City of Invention" was added to the seal when the All-America City Award was received for the third time.
It is the center of the Akron Metropolitan Travel Destination which covers Summit and Portage counties, and the larger Cleveland-Akron-Elyria Combined Statistical Area.
Located on the end of the plateau, the topography of Akron includes rolling hills and varied terrain.
Akron has the only biogas facility in the United States that produces methane through the decomposition process of sludge to problematic electricity. According to the 2010 census, the town/city has a total region of 62.37 square miles (161.5 km2), of which 62.03 square miles (160.7 km2) (or 99.45%) is territory and 0.34 square miles (0.88 km2) (or 0.55%) is water. The all-time record high temperature in Akron of 104 F (40 C) was established on August 6, 1918, and the all-time record low temperature of 25 F ( 32 C) was set on January 19, 1994. The first and last freezes of the season on average fall on October 18 and April 26, in the order given, allowing a burgeoning season of 174 days. The normal annual mean temperature is 49.8 F (9.9 C). Normal annual rain based on the 30-year average from 1981 2010 is 39.62 inches (1,006 mm), falling on an average 158 days. Monthly rain has ranged from 12.55 in (319 mm) in July 2003 to 0.20 in (5.1 mm) in September 1960, while for annual rain the historical range is 65.70 in (1,669 mm) in 1990 to 23.79 in (604 mm) in 1963. Climate data for Akron, Ohio (Akron-Canton Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1887 present See also: List of tallest buildings in Akron, Ohio and Category:Buildings and structures in Akron, Ohio Akron was awarded with the City Livability Award in 2008 for its accomplishments to co-purpose new school buildings as improve learning centers.
In 2009, the National Arbor Day Foundation designated Akron as a Tree City USA for the 14th time. Many of the city's government and civic buildings, including City Hall, and the Summit County Courthouse, but the Akron-Summit County Public Library, and John S.
The town/city is home to a historic 1920s atmospheric movie palace, the Akron Civic Theatre.
Completed in 1931, Akron's tallest building, the Huntington Tower, features the art deco style and is veiled in glazed architectural terra-cotta. Standing 330 feet (100 m), it is assembled on top of the Hamilton Building, instead of in 1900 in the neo-gothic style. Near the turn of the millennium the fortress was given a $2.5 million facelift, including a $1.8 million restoration of the tower's terra-cotta, brick and limestone. The top of the building has a tv broadcast tower, formerly used by WAKR-TV (now WVPX-TV) and WAKR-AM. The antenna reaches 134.7 metres (442 ft).Located on the University of Akron campus, the Goodyear Polymer Center, is glass twin towers connected by walkways.
Akron consists of 21 neighborhoods, with an additional three that are unincorporated but recognized inside the city.
Spicertown falls under the blanket of University Park, this term is used incessantly to describe the student-centered retail and residentiary region around East Exchange and Spicer streets, near the University of Akron.
Akron's suburbs include Fairlawn, Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Norton, Stow, Tallmadge, Silver Lake, Green, and Mogadore.
Main article: Culture of Akron, Ohio Regular acts include the Akron Symphony Orchestra, Tuesday Musical Club, and Children's Concert Society.
Behind it on the canal is the Lock 3 Park amphitheater, which annually host the First Night in Akron.
The Akron Art Museum also downtown, features art produced since 1850 along with nationwide and global exhibitions. It opened in 1922 as the Akron Art Institute positioned in the basement of the Akron-Summit County Public Library.
The Akron Police Museum displays mementos including items from Pretty Boy Floyd, whose gang incessanted the city. The town/city is home to a several other arcades and exhibitions include American Marble and Toy Museum and the Don Drumm Studios & Gallery. Inducted into the National Film Registry, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), tells the story of two dancers from Akron who go to New York City. My Name is Bill W.
(1989) tells the true story of Bill Wilson who co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, which held its first meetings at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens and has over two million members today. The program's connection to the Saint Thomas Hospital is referenced in an episode of the tv series Prison Break (2005), where Michael Scofield talks to Sara Tancredi on the phone while there. The Akron Armory is used as a venue for a female wrestling team in ...All the Marbles (1981). More Than a Game (2009) documents National Basketball Association player Le - Bron James and his St.
The town/city has been the subject of many portrayals in media, from "Hell on Earth" in the tv series I'm In Hell (2007), to the whereabouts of a holy woman in The Virgin of Akron, Ohio (2007). Henry Spivey of My Own Worst Enemy (2008), travels to Akron through the series many times. George Costanza in an episode of Seinfeld (1989), flies to the city. M.Y.O.B.
(2008) is centered on an Akron runaway girl titled Riley Veatch. Jake Foley of Jake 2.0 (2003), Pickles family of the Rugrats (1991), and J.Reid of In Too Deep (1999) are also from the city.
Akron was also in the spotlight on the tv show Criminal Minds "Compromising Positions" (2010) Season 6, Episode 4.
Also, in the musical comedy Glee, Vocal Adrenaline, the New Directions rivals, are from the fictional Carmel High School in Akron.
In the dystopian novel Unwind (and its sequels), by Neal Shusterman, one of the chief characters, Connor Lassiter, is dubbed the "Akron AWOL" after the town/city becomes the scene of his notorious escape from the Juvey-cops.
Thomas and Beulah, a book of poetry written by native and former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Rita Dove, tells the story of her grandmother and grandfather, who separately moved from the South to the city, where they lived through the Great Depression and the rest of their lives. The town/city is also the setting for the novel The Coast of Akron, by former editor of Esquire, Adrienne Miller. To reflect Akron's diminish during the 1980s, Akron native Chrissie Hynde wrote the Pretenders song "My City Was Gone". The Black Keys album title Rubber Factory refers to the former Goodrich Corporation rubber factory in which it was recorded. Akron serves as a setting in the first-person-shooter PC platform video game, No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way. See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Akron, Ohio Akron Art Museum There are various attractions and points of interest in the Akron area.
The Akron Art Museum has been operating since 1922 and is presently positioned downtown, highlighting over 20,000 square feet of art produced since 1850.
In the heart of downtown, the Akron Civic Theatre has provided the improve with a venue for character entertainment and live performances for over eighty years.
The Akron Zoo is positioned just outside downtown and was an t of property from the city's beginning family.
National affairs that are hosted annually in Akron cover a wide range of hobbies and interests.
The PGA World Golf Championships travel to Akron each year for the Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club.
In mid July, the National Hamburger Festival consists of different vendors serving initial recipe hamburgers and has a Miss Hamburger contest. Lock 3 Park annually hosts the First Night Akron celebration on New Year's Eve. The park also annually hosts the Italian Festival and the "Rib, White & Blue" food festival in July. Founders Day is jubilated annually because of the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous inside the city. Several inhabitants of Akron have played a part in defining American cuisine.
Ferdinand Schumacher created the first American oatmeal and is a pioneer of breakfast cereal. He also established the Empire Barley Mill and German Mills American Oatmeal Company, which would later merge a several times with other companies, with the result being the Quaker Oats Company. The Menches Brothers, are the disputed inventors of the waffle ice cream cone, caramel corn, and hamburger. The beer, BORIS The Crusher Oatmeal-Imperial Stout, brewed by the Hoppin' Frog Brewing Company positioned in the city, won 1st place in the Imperial Stout category of the 2008 Great American Beer Festival, and the business was titled the 24th best brewer in the world for 2010 by Rate - Beer.com Notable eateries in Akron are Luigi's Pizzeria (established in 1949) and The Diamond Grille.
Although Akron is in northern Ohio, where the Inland North dialect is expected, its settlement history, puts it in the North Midland dialect area. Some localisms that have advanced include devilstrip, which refers to the grass strip between a sidewalk and street. Akron sports squads Akron Zips football American football NCAA Info - Cision Stadium (30,000) 18,098 Akron Rubber - Ducks Baseball Eastern League (AA) Canal Park (7,630) 5,074 Nearly burgeoning 87% that year, the Akron Road Runner Marathon has consecutively attained participants since beginning. It was announced that Akron will host some of the affairs of the 2014 Gay Games including the marathon, the men's and women's golf tournaments at Firestone Country Club, and softball at Firestone Stadium. The All-American Soap Box Derby taken place each year at the Derby Downs since 1936.
On January 7, 1938, Akron became the place of birth of women's experienced Mud Wrestling, in a match including Professional Wrestling and Wrestling Observer Hall of Famer, Mildred Burke. The Professional Bowlers Association started in the town/city during 1958.
As home to the University of Akron, the town/city is also home to the Akron Zips, who compete in the NCAA and the Mid-American Conference (MAC) in a range of sports at the Division I level.
Former squads of Akron include the Akron Professionals (National Football League), Goodyear Silents (deaf semi-professional football), Akron Black Tyrites (Negro League), Akron Americans (International Hockey League), Akron Lightning (International Basketball League), the Akron Summit Assault USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and the Akron Wingfoots (National Basketball League), who won the first NBL Championship and the International Cup three times.
The Akron Firestone Non-Skids (National Basketball League), later won the title consecutively, in 1939 and 1940.
The historic Rubber Bowl was the home of the 1920 National Football League Championship winners, the Akron Professionals.
Major parks in Akron include Lock 3, Firestone, Goodyear Heights, the F.A.
Lock 3 Park in downtown Akron is the city's core for entertainment.
The park was created in the early 21st century to furnish green space inside the town/city of Akron.
Akron inhabitants can appreciate various ice skating activities year round at the historic Akron Ice House.
Akron Beacon Journal Headquarters See also: Akron Radio Akron is served in print by the daily Akron Beacon Journal, formerly the flagship journal of the Knight Newspapers chain; the weekly "The Akron Reporter"; and the weekly West Side Leader newspapers and the monthly periodical Akron Life.
Akron is less than 40 miles (64 km) from Cleveland and forms part of the Cleveland-Akron (Canton) media market, the 18th biggest market in the U.S. However, WAOH-CD, WEAO (PBS), WVPX (ION), and WBNX-TV (CW) are licensed to Akron.
WAOH and WEAO serve the town/city of Akron specifically, while WBNX and WVPX identify themselves as Akron/Cleveland, serving the entire Northeast Ohio market.
Akron has no native news broadcast, having lost its only news station when the former WAKC became WVPX in 1996.
On the radio side, Akron is served by WZIP 88.1 (Top 40 / College University of Akron), WAPS 91.3 (Varied formats: small-town artists, undivided rock, blues, jazz and enhance radio), WAKR 1590 (Oldies), WKDD 98.1 (Adult contemporary), WHLO 640 (News/talk), WJMP 1520 (Silent), WKSU 89.7 (National Public Radio and Classical music, directed from the ground of Kent State University), WONE 97.5 (Classic rock), WNIR-FM 100.1 (News/talk), WSTB 88.9 (Alternative), WARF 1350 (Fox Sports Ohio), WQMX 94.9 (Country), WRQK 106.9 (Rock), and WHOF 101.7 (AC).
Akron has won economic awards such as for City Livability and All-American City, and deemed a high tech haven greatly contributing to the Information Age. Current Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the town/city include the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and First - Energy.
The project, Akron Riverwalk, will feature a large retail and commercial evolution area. The universal began in 2007, but was put on hold because of the financial crisis of 2007 2010, and is now continuing. Bridgestone assembled a new technical center with state-of-the-art R&D labs, and relocated its product evolution operations to the new facility in early 2012. The Eastern Ohio Division of Key - Bank, which has six chapters in the city, assembled a county-wide command posts downtown. The town/city has a no-charge Wi - Fi corridor centered in downtown.
Neighborhoods in range include Goodyear Heights, East Akron, North Hill, Firestone Park, Kenmore, and West Akron. Northeast Ohio's Polymer Valley is centered in Akron.
During the 1980s and 1990s, an influx of new polymer companies came to the region. In 2001, more than 400 companies produced polymer-based materials in the region. Many University of Akron scientists became world-renowned for their research done at the Goodyear Polymer Center. The first College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering was begun by the university.
Akron has designated an region called the Biomedical Corridor, aimed at luring health-related ventures to the region.
It encompasses 1,240 acres (5.0 km2) of private and publicly owned land, bounded by Akron General on the west and Akron City on the east, and also includes Akron Children's near the district's center with the former Saint Thomas Hospital to the north of its northern boundaries. Since its start in 2006, the corridor added the command posts of companies such as Akron Polymer Systems. Akron's adult hospitals are owned by two community systems, Summa Health System and Akron General Health System.
Summa Health System operates Akron City Hospital and the former St.
News & World Report. Summa is recognized as having one of the best orthopaedics programs in the country with a ranking of 28th. Akron General Health in affiliation with the Cleveland Clinic operates Akron General Medical Center, which in 2009, was recognized as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S.
News & World Report. Akron Children's Hospital is an autonomous entity that specializes in pediatric care and burn care. In 1974, Dr.
Aaron Freeman successfully interval human skin in a lab to treat burn victims, making Akron Children's Hospital the first hospital in the world to achieve such a feat. Akron City and Akron General hospitals are designated Level I Trauma Centers.
2 Akron General Health System 4,150 4 Akron Public Schools 3,094 6 The University of Akron 2,845 8 Akron Children's Hospital 2,681 See also: List of mayors of Akron, Ohio and List of Akron politicians The mayor of Akron is propel in a citywide vote.
The town/city is divided into 10 wards, each elect a member to the Akron City Council, while an additional 3 are propel at large.
Longtime Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic announced on May 8, 2015 that he was resigning as Mayor of the City of Akron after 28 years as mayor, and his retirement from politics after 41 years of service to the City of Akron, effective on May 31, 2015. On May 31, 2015, Garry Moneypenny, former Chief Deputy and Assistant Sheriff of the Summit County Sheriff's Department, former Springfield Township Police Department Chief of Police, and former Akron City Council President, was sworn in as the new mayor at East High School. As of Wednesday, July 1, three Democrats and one Republican were running for Mayor of Akron.
Sipplin, an black criminal defense attorney, was the only Republican candidate to run. On Tuesday November 3, 2015, Dan Horrigan was propel as the 62nd mayor of the town/city of Akron.
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Akron Center for Reproductive Health Aside from town/city founder, Simon Perkins, negotiating a treaty with Native Americans to establish a mail route from the Connecticut Western Reserve to Detroit in 1807, the rest partook in historic humanitarian affairs in Akron.
In 1905, the sheriff, county officials, mayor of Akron, judges, county commissioners, and most members of Akron's school board were members.
The Klan's influence in the city's politics eventually ended after Wendell Willkie, appeared and challenged them. Race took part in two of Akron's primary riots, the Riot of 1900 and the Wooster Ave.
In 2008, 91-year-old Akron native, Addie Polk, became the poster child of the financial crisis of 2007 2010, after shooting herself. Statue of Simon Perkins, founder of Akron, in front of the University of Akron College of Business Administration moved from its initial locale in Grace Park.
See also: Category:Education in Akron, Ohio and List of University of Akron citizens Preschool, elementary, and secondary education is mainly provided by the Akron City School District.
The Ohio Legislature adopted the plan, called "An act for the support and better regulation of the Common Schools of the Town of Akron" on February 8, 1847.
Akron's first enhance schools were established in the fall of 1847 and were led by Mortimer Leggett.
The major schools were taught by young women, which the Akron Board of Education justified because they could be paid less and were under the oversight of a male superintendent.
From 1877 to 1952, Akron graduated students semi-annually freshwater annually.
In the 1920s, an Americanization program was designed to help the many Akron students who were first-generation Americans.
In 1924, Akron's platoon schools thriving visitors from all over the country.
During the city's 1950s boom town phase, Akron schools interval eight times faster than the city's population.
The town/city is home to the University of Akron, which the Princeton Review listed among the Best in the Midwest, in 2008. Originally Buchtel College, the school is home of the Goodyear Polymer Center and the National Polymer Innovation Center. All Akron Public Schools are presently going through a 15-year, $800 million stone process. In recent times the city's schools have been moved from "Academic Watch" to "Continuous Improvement" by the Ohio Department of Education. Akron also has many private, parochial and charter schools.
Akron Public Schools made headlines in 2004 when a freshman student of Akron Digital Academy, the district's own online charter school, was not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities, an event later veiled and satirized by The Daily Show.
Akron Fulton International Airport administration building The major terminal that airline passengers traveling to or from Akron use is the Akron-Canton Regional Airport, serving nearly 2 million passengers a year.
The Akron-Canton Airport is a commercial Class C airport positioned in the town/city of Green, roughly 10 mi (16 km) southeast of Akron directed jointly by Stark and Summit counties.
Akron Fulton International Airport is a general aviation airport positioned in and owned by the City of Akron that serves private planes.
The Goodyear blimps are now homed outside of Akron in a facility on the shores of Wingfoot Lake in close-by Suffield Township.
Akron Northside Station is a train station at 27 Ridge Street along the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad. Because of the city's large rubber industry, Akron was once serviced by a range of barns s who competed for the city's freight and passenger business.
Smaller county-wide barns s encompassed the Akron Canton and Youngstown Railroad, Northern Ohio Railroad, and the Akron Barberton Belt Railroad.[page needed] Today the town/city is only serviced by CSX Corporation which has a de facto monopoly on all rail freight transport to and from the city.
Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) also has a bus line running between Canton and Akron and the Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority (PARTA) runs an express route connecting the University of Akron with Kent State University. Metro RTA operates out of the Robert K.
Akron is served by two primary interstate highways that bisect the city.
Unlike other cities, the bisection does not occur in the Central Business District, nor do the interstates serve downtown; rather, the Akron Innerbelt and to a lesser extent Ohio State Route 8 serve these functions.
It runs east-west and has 18 interchanges in Akron, four of which are freeway-to-freeway.
View of Akron from the south looking north The Akron Innerbelt is a six-lane, 2.24-mile (3.60 km) spur from the I-76/I-77 concurrency and serves the urban core of the city.
Ohio State Route 8 is an initial state highway that is a limited access route that joins Akron's northern suburbs with Interstates 76 and 77.
The second freeway in Akron to be completed, it went through a primary overhaul in 2003 with new ramps and access roads.
In 2007 ODOT began a universal to upgrade the road to interstate highway standards north of Akron from State Route 303 to I-271, providing a high speed alternative to Cleveland. Main article: Crime history of Akron, Ohio The undivided police car originated in Akron in 1899. In 1999, Akron ranked as the 94th most dangerous town/city and the 229th safest, on the 7th Morgan Quitno list. Preliminary Ohio crime statistics show aggravated assaults increased by 45% amid 2007. Akron became the first town/city in the United States to train and equip officers with the Corner - Shot, to aid them in fighting crime. The town/city invented the first patrol cars to assist officers.
Historically, organized crime directed in the town/city with the existence of the Black Hand led by Rosario Borgio, once headquartered on the city's north side in the first decade of the 20th century and the Walker-Mitchell mob, of which Pretty Boy Floyd was a member. Akron has experienced a several riots in its history including, the Riot of 1900 and the Wooster Avenue Riots of 1968.
The distribution of methamphetamine ("meth") in Akron greatly contributed to Summit County becoming known as the "Meth Capital of Ohio".
The county rates third in the country in the number of registered meth sites. During the 1990s, motorcycle gang the Hells Angels sold the drug from bars incessanted by members. Between January 2004 and August 2009, the town/city had decidedly more registered sites than any other town/city in the state. Authorities believe a disruption of a primary Mexican meth operation attributed to the increase of it being made locally. In 2007, APD received a grant to help continue its work with other agencies and jurisdictions to support them in ridding the town/city of meth labs. The Akron Police Department coordinates with the Summit County Drug Unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration, forming the Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratory Response Team. Main article: List of citizens from Akron, Ohio Knight ran the nationwide Knight Newspapers chain from Akron.
Noted athletes to have come from Akron include National Basketball Association MVPs Le - Bron James and Stephen Curry, Basketball Hall of Famers Gus "Honeycomb" Johnson and Nate "The Great" Thurmond, Major League Baseball player Thurman Munson, International Boxing Hall of Famer Gorilla Jones, Houston Texans linebacker Whitney Mercilus, former Northwestern University and Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian, and Butch Reynolds, former world record holder in the 400 meter dash.
James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers was also born in Akron, as was former New England Patriots linebacker and current Houston Texas linebackers coach Mike Vrabel.
Performing artists to come from Akron include bands such as Ruby and the Romantics, Devo, The Black Keys, The Waitresses, and 1964 the Tribute; singers Chrissie Hynde, James Ingram, Joseph Arthur, Jani Lane, Rachel Sweet and outlaw nation singer David Allan Coe; and actors Frank Dicopoulos, David Mc - Lean, Melina Kanakaredes, Elizabeth Franz, William Boyett, Lola Albright and Jesse White.
Carol Folt, the 11th chancellor and 29th chief executive, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was born in Akron in 1951.
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Akron Area Intergroup Council of Alcoholics Anonymous.
"Ferdinand Schumacher Ohio History Central A product of the Ohio Historical Society".
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Akron Beacon Journal.
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Greater Akron Chamber.
"Akron Riverwalk / The Bridge to Polymer Valley".
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"Connect Akron Wireless Network".
"Polymer Valley - Ohio History Central - A product of the Ohio Historical Society".
"Akron's biomedical corridor taking shape".
"Akron Ohio: Akron Ohio: Mayor's Office of Economic Development".
"Akron General Medical Center".
"Akron Children's Hospital : Why Akron Children's?".
"City of Akron CAFR" (PDF).
"Akron: Office of the Mayor: Cabinet Members".
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"Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic abruptly announces his resignation, blames the Beacon Journal".
"Garry Moneypenny sworn in as Akron's 60th mayor at East High School, talks on past and future of city".
"Akron Mayor Garry Moneypenny admits to inappropriate contact with town/city employee; says he will not resign or run for new term".
"Garry Moneypenny resigns as Akron mayor; Fusco next in line for mayor".
"Six Democrats and 1 Republican file to run for Akron mayor; familiar names file for Akron council competitions".
"New Akron Ward 10 councilman sworn in".
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