prehistory

Logan Fontenell

In this part of Omaha today, before the Europeans began to settle in, there were many native American tribes. In the 17th century, the area was inhabited by the Omaha tribe, which later became the origin of the city name, as well as the Ponka people of the Siouan tribe who moved to the area from the lower reaches of the Ohio River in the early 17th century, as well as the Pawnie, Oto, Missouri, and Iowa. The word 'Omaha' means 'a people who live on a cliff cliff.'

In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition party, passing through this area during their journey, met with the heads of the Oto and Missouri tribes at about 30km north from present-day Omaha City and at Council Bluff (a separate part from the present Council Bluffs, Iowa Province) from July 30 to August 3. Then, in the area just south of the station, Fort Lisa (1812), Fort Atkinson (1819), Kajanet of Kabanne (1822), Ventner's Trading Post (1823, now Bellevue City), and American fur Trading Posts were built one after another. Until John Jacob Astor's American fur company monopolized the fur trade, the fur industry was in a fierce competition. In 1846, 2,500 Mormons built a religious city called Catraz Park on their way to the Rocky Mountains. This settlement didn't last long, but it became the foundation of later development.

After that, the indigenous people of Nebraska concluded 26 treaties with the federal government and gradually ceded their land to the United States. Most of the land in the middle east of the state, including the present Omaha city, was ceded by the Omaha tribe in 1854. It was Logan Fontenell, a Omaha interpreter, and a French and Omaha blood figure, who played an important role in the conclusion of the treaty.

Reclamation Omaha

a one-dollar bank note issued in 1857 by Jessie Row, the first mayor of Omaha, to cover the construction cost of the Nebraska Quasi-State Capitol

Before the legalization of the settlement of Native American lands, William D. Brown, who is said to be the leading pioneer in Omaha reclamation, had operated a ferry called the Lone Tree Ferry that crossed the Missouri River from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Rising claims of the right to transfer from Council Bluffs to Omaha were a sign of the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854. On July 4 of the same year, Omaha was established informally at a picnic at Capital Hill. Shortly after that, the Omaha Claims Club was formed as a vigilante group for those who claim ownership of the land and those who break into the lands of the fathers who founded Omaha. A part of the land they acquired was later used to attract the Nebraska Quasi-State Capitol, which is now a downtown district of Omaha, what was then called the Scriptwristown. The Quasi-State Capitol was built in Omaha, but when Nebraska was promoted to the state in 1867, the state capital was moved to Lincoln, 80km southwest. In 1870, the Supreme Court subsequently issued a ruling in the Baker v. Morton Trial to recognize the legality of the actions of the Omaha Claims Club.

Many of the founders of Omaha were staying at the Douglas House, or the Cotzen House Hotel. Early settlers slept in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, which was approved by the Nebraska Sub-Congress in 1858, together with the war dead in the Civil War and the American-West War. The two sculpture parks, Pioneer College Park and Spirit of Nebraska's Wilderness Park, have also brought the history of Omaha development to the present day.

Transcontinental Railroad and Stockyards

A railroad crossing the continent from Omaha to Sacramento. The blue line is the Union Pacific Railway.

Since the beginning, Omaha has become a hub of traffic to the west in both the land and the waterways that go back to the Missouri River, and a shopping and wholesale district has been established to develop the economy. In 1862, the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha to the west was approved by the Federal Assembly, and the construction started in 1863. In 1869, six years after its construction began, the Union Pacific Railway opened at the Promontory Summit in Utah, connecting with the Central Pacific Railway, which was being constructed eastward from Sacramento, California, and serving as the first transcontinental railroad throughout the United States.

In the history of Omaha, the Union Stockyard, which was completed in the South Omaha area in 1883, is as important as the transcontinental railway. Four of the U.S. five miners were based in Omaha within the twenty-year period of the completion of Union Stockyard. In the 1950s half of the workforce in Omaha was engaged in the meat industry or meat processing industry. Economic growth in Omaha from the late 19th century to the early 20th century was brought about by the meat industry, wholesale trade, and railways.

Railway traffic in the city also developed. The Omaha Railway, which opened in 1867, carried passengers everywhere in the city. In 1884, the Omaha Cable Tramway Company opened its business, and they ran a cable car in the city. In 1888, the Omaha and Council Bluffs railway bridge company built the Douglas Street Bridge, which crossed the Missouri River and connected the cities of Omaha and Council Bluffs.

development of international exhibitions and culture

Transmississippi International Exposition

The leaders of Omaha, who saw the success of the World's Columbian Exposition held in 1893, held the Transmississippi International Exposition in 1898 in order to hold such expositions in Omaha. At the same time, more than 500 Native Americans gathered together to hold the Indian Congress. These events, held in Kaunze Park and Omaha Driving Park in the County of North Omaha, in the Kaunze Place, attracted a total of two million people.

During the 1920s and 1950s, Tiri Olsen, Wallace Cerman, Lloyd Hunter, and Ana May Wilburn were living in the North Omaha area, where the culture flourished. In the Dreamland Ballroom in the Joel Building built in the area in 1923, famous nationwide jazz singers and players such as Count Basey, Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington, and Earl Hynes sang and played.

diversity, violence and conflict of race

The immigrants who came to Omaha in search of jobs in the railroad and meat industry eventually formed ethnic enclave all over the city. The Irish established Sea Town in the South Omaha area. In South Omaha, Little Italians of Italian descent and Little Bohemia of Czech descent were also created. On the other hand, the Germans settled in the Near North Side area together with the African descent from the Jewish and Southern regions. In particular, the German style contributed to the development of the beer brewing industry in Omaha, which was once prosperous. In the latter half of the 19th century, the upper classes of Omaha began to live in the Gold Coast, the Field Club, and the Bemisspark and Counze Place districts in the North-Omaha district of the Midtown district. They traveled along the streets of the avenue, designed by landscape gardener Horace Cleveland, through parks spreading throughout the city.

James Dalman

The security of Omaha from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century was bad, and gambling, drinking and prostitution were rampant. These acts were originally in the red-line district of Burnt, which later became popular in the Sporting District. The criminal gang, backed by Tom Denison, the boss who dominated Omaha around 1890, was under Denison's control, and was appointed mayor in 1906, serving for eight consecutive terms, and growing up under the patronage of James Dalman, the "cowboy Jim" who was called "permanent" mayor. Natural disasters such as the Missouri River Flood in 1881 failed to quell the violence in the city. The Camp Dump Strike occurred in 1882, and State Militia were mobilized to suppress the mob workers and attracted national attention. The Governor had to request the United States Army stationed in Fort Omaha, the neighboring area, to protect the Burlington Railway strikers. The U.S. Army deployed Gatling and Cannon for defense. The strike resulted in one death and several serious and minor injuries. In 1891, a gang-lynching incident occurred when an African-American baggage-bearer called Joe Ko raped a white girl. In 1900, Edward Kudhahi, the 15-year-old son of the local King of Meat, was abducted, causing a nationwide riot.

Will Brown's body burned in the midst of Lynch's murder in the Red Summer riot in Omaha and surrounded by mob

The proliferation of population, the overcrowding of houses, and the intensifying competition for jobs in Omaha's race-to-ethnic tension increased. By the beginning of the 20th century, violence against new immigrants often gave rise to suspicion and fear. As the labor struggle intensified, Omaha managers began to hire African workers to break the strike, which also heightened racial tension. In 1909, 3,000 white men and boys riot in the Greek settlement in the South Omaha area in retaliation for police officers being killed by Greek residents and destroyed the settlement. A tornado that took place on Sunday during the Easter Festival in 1913 destroyed most of the city's African residential area, in addition to most of the Midtown area. In 1919, a riot occurred in Omaha in the wake of Will Brown, an African worker, who raped a white woman in the face of the U.S. national racial riots called "red summer." The rioters marched from the South Omaha area to the Douglas County Office, set fire to the County Office in order to burn the prisoners, and suffered more than a million dollars in damages. The mob then hung the brown and shot him to death, and finally burned his body. Troops from Fort Omaha were mobilized to quell the riot, to keep more people from gathering in South Omaha, and to protect the African residents of North Omaha.

The Civil Rights Movement in Omaha dates back to 1912, when the National Association for the Advancement of Blacks was established in Omaha for the first time in the west of the Mississippi River. In 1947, mainly students from the University of Clayton and African Catholics gathered at the University of Clayton to form the Deporus Club, a civil rights organization. In the late 1960s, the Black Panther Party increased its power and the Civil Rights Movement developed into African nationalism.

Revitalization and Development of the Regional Economy after the Great Depression

Enola Gay, an atomic bomb victim in Hiroshima City, was built at the Ofatt Air Force Base

After the Great Depression that started in 1929, the regional economy of Omaha was revived in the munitions industry. In 1940, Glenn L. Martin's factory was set up on the Ofat Air Force Base, which was located just south of Omaha, and started operations. The plant produced 521 B-29 machines, including the atomic bomb Enora Gay, which dropped on Hiroshima City, and the Boxcar, which dropped on Nagasaki City. After the end of World War II, in 1948, the Strategic Air Force Corps was transferred to the Ofat Air Force Base, which had a significant economic effect on Omaha.

Since the late 1950s, the construction of interstate expressways has been promoted all over the country, and the construction of expressways such as I-80, its branch lines such as I-480 and I-680, and North Omaha Freeway (National Route 75) has been promoted in Omaha. While these expressways promoted the development of the city, they also created a division of the community, especially in the North Omaha area.

In the 1950s and 1960s, more than 40 insurance companies, including Woodmen of the World and Omaha, established their headquarters in Omaha. In the latter half of the 1960s, Omaha, who did not surpass Hartford, New York, and Boston, became the hub of the insurance industry comparable to those cities.

decline and rebirth in the late 20th century

Omaha had outlived Chicago in the meat industry in the late 1950s, but in the 1960s, the railroad and meat industry, which had supported the local economy in Omaha until then, were both hit by structural changes, and 10,000 people lost their jobs. It took some time for Omaha to transform the regional economic structure. The impact was particularly heavy on African-American residents, who were impoverished in the North-Omaha area, which was a collective neighborhood. In the 1960s alone, large-scale racial riots broke out three times on North 24th Street in the Near North Side area, destroying the area's economic infrastructure and rebuilding it took decades. When Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968, the despair of the assassination broke out several riots in the North Omaha area, including the Logan Fontenel housing complex, which was already dominated by the poor.

Woodmen Tower

Jean Reich Mall

 

old market

In 1969, a 30-story Woodmen Tower was built in the downtown area, a height of 145.7m, and was the impetus for the Omaha revival. Since the 1970s, the city of Omaha has spread to the west, and its population has been concentrated in the West-Omaha area, west of 72nd Street, with white people at the center. On the other hand, the North Omaha and South Omaha areas have attracted new immigrants, increasing their economic and racial diversity. In the late 1970s, the construction of the Jean Reich Mall and the W. Dale Clark Library, the main building of the Omaha Public Library, started to redevelop downtown. In the 1980s, a fruit warehouse in downtown Omaha was transformed into a shopping area called the Old Market. In 1989, 24 buildings in the desolate warehouse district, the Jover's Canyon Historical District were demolished, and the head office of Konagra Foods was located on the site. However, the Konagra Foods Company's method of destroying the Jobors Canyon Historical District, which was one of the largest historical districts in the United States at that time, which had been registered as a National Register of Historic Places, in fear of relocating its head office if they did not agree to the demolition, was a lot of criticism, and this opportunity for the preservation of historical buildings was raised. Some of the surrounding buildings, including Nash Block, have turned into condominiums. The stockyard, which was a symbol of Omaha's meat-refining industry, was dismantled except for the Livestock Exchange, but the Livestock Exchange was registered as a National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and converted into a multipurpose building.

However, while the revitalization was progressing, the head office of not a few companies left Omaha in the 1980s and 1990s. The Northern Natural Gas Company, which was one of the origins of Enron, was founded in Omaha in 1930, but after it was merged with the Houston Natural Gas Company in 1985, its head office was moved to Houston. First Data, a major credit card settlement company, was founded in Omaha in 1971, but was relocated from Omaha to the Denver metropolitan area and to Atlanta. Inacom, which originated from Balcom, founded in 1982 in Omaha, went bankrupt in 2000. North Western Bell had its headquarters in Omaha since its foundation in 1896, but was merged into US West in 1991 and moved to Denver where its headquarters is located. Both Level 3 Communications and MFS, which were spin off from Peter Cuit Sands, headquartered in Omaha, moved to Bromfield, Colorado in 1998, and then merged with WorldCom in 1996 to Clinton, Mississippi, where the headquarter was located.

21st century

One First National Center

In the 21st century, skyscrapers and cultural facilities were built one after another in downtown. Completed in 2002, the One First National Center is a 45-story, 193.3m-tall skyscraper, surpassing the former tallest building in Omaha, the Woodmen Tower (previously mentioned), and has become the tallest building in Nebraska and the state. In 2004, the new headquarters building for the Union Pacific Railroad, the 19-story, 96.6m-high, glass-walled skyscraper, and the Union Pacific Center, were completed. In 2005, the Holland Acting Art Center opened just north of Jean Reich Mall. In the northern part of the downtown area, to the east of the Clayton University Campus, the area called North Downtown, was filled with a series of multipurpose arena, called Slow Down, live music venues, movie theaters such as Film Streams, and the Century Link Center Omaha. Near the Century Link Center Omaha, a baseball field called TD Ameritade Park Omaha was completed in 2011.

Bob Kelly Bridge

Development of the downtown Missouri waterfront has also been underway. In 2008, a 914m-long, pedestrian and bicycle-only stretcher bridge, Bob Kerry Trail Bridge, was completed across the Missouri River. Near the bridge, a Riverfront Place, consisting of two condominiums, was developed and completed in 2011. In addition, as the development of waterfront in Omaha progressed, the development of waterfront in Council Bluffs on the other side of the river is also underway independently.

In addition to the Riverfront Place, buildings of condominiums have been built one after another in the 21st century in downtown and midtown districts. In the Midtown area, large-scale development of complex complexes combined with commercial facilities, such as Axaben Village, which was developed on the site of Axaben (Ak-sar-ben, Nebraska) and Arena, and Midtown Crossing at Turner Park, which is being developed by Omaha Mutual Insurance Company, has been underway. On the other hand, in the West Omaha area, which has developed as a residential area since the 1970s, in the 21st century, development of large-scale commercial districts such as First National Business Park began.

the relative position of Omaha and its neighboring major cities

Omaha is located at 41 degrees, 15 minutes, 25 seconds north latitude and 95 degrees, 56 minutes, 27 seconds west longitude. It is almost between Chicago and Denver, and it is about 800km from either of them. It is about 80km northeast of the capital Lincoln. The altitude of downtown is 333m.

The city is located on the west bank of the Missouri River in eastern Nebraska in the Midwest. The Platt River, a tributary of the Missouri River, flows west and south of the city and joins the Missouri River with Platzmouth in the southern suburb. The land in the city is leveled not only in downtown but also in various places, and is greatly changed from the original land form. The East Omaha area stretches over the floodplain of the Missouri River and forms Lake Carter, the Lake Crescent. Nebraska-Iowa border is only part of Lake Carter, which is drawn in the old channel of the Missouri River, or Lake Carter, by the Federal Supreme Court ruling in 1892. Therefore, the southern part of Lake Carter is a detached area in Iowa, and has been incorporated as Carter Lake City in the same province. There used to be Lake Florence north of Lake Carter, but it dried up in the 1920s.

Omaha Council Bluffs Fremont metropolitan area

  Omaha Council Bluffs metropolitan area

  Fremont metro

According to the United States Census Bureau, Omaha City has a total area of 338.20km² (130.58^mi2). Of them, 329.16km² (127.09^mi2) is land and 9.04km² (3.49mi2) is the water area. The area accounts for 2.67% of the total area. The metropolitan area covers Douglas County as the center, over five counties in Nebraska and three counties in Iowa, with an area of 11,287km² (4,358mi²).

In terms of geography, Omaha is considered to be located in the 'Center' (Heartland) of the United States. Environmental factors that have a significant impact on natural habitats in the region include the spread of foreign plants, the restoration of Prairie and Buroak forests, and the control of the population of Asian deer.

climate

The climate of Omaha is characterized by hot, humid summer and dry, severe winter, and is an inland climate with a large annual difference in temperature. The hottest July temperature is about 25°C, the highest average is about 30°C, and the average temperatures over 32°C during the day are about 10 days a month. The coldest January temperature is 4°C below freezing and the average minimum temperature is 10°C below freezing, lowering temperatures almost daily. The amount of rainfall is mostly from May to August in the summer, which is about 95-120mm per month, whereas it is less during December to February in the winter season, which is about 15-25mm per month. In spring and autumn, it is about 40-75mm per month. Annual rainfall is about 780mm. The amount of snow in the month from December to March in winter reaches 10-15cm and the amount of snow in the year reaches 67cm. In the climate division of Keppan, Omaha belongs to the subarctic wet climate (Dfa).

urban overview

Locations in Omaha by region

  downtown

  Midtown

  Central Omaha

  East Omaha

  North Omaha

  North Central

  North West

  South Omaha

  South East

  South Central

  West Omaha

  Millard

  Elkhorn

Turner Boulevard and Leavenworth Park in the Omaha and Avenue System

The streets of Omaha are well-defined, with a density of 12 blocks per mile, all over the city, and each of the north and south has a house number. Many of the streets running north-south have numbers, and the number increases as they leave the Missouri River. The street running north-south is divided into south (S) and north (N) on the border of Dodge Street (National Route 6). In addition, the Florence Boulevard, Fonnel Boulevard and Solenson Park Road are well known for their scenic beauty as well as its pleasant driving comfort, which Horace Cleveland designed in the late 19th century. These avenue were registered as National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Omaha Park and Avenue System.

a Prague hotel (now an apartment) in the center of Little Bohemia

As shown above, Omaha is divided into 13 districts. Omaha also has various new and old districts and suburbs that reflect its socioeconomic diversity. In the old days, ethnic enclaves such as Little Italy, Little Bohemia, Little Mexico, and Greke Town were formed. According to data from the Census, Omaha had five ethnic enclaves in 1880, but in 1900 it increased to nine.

In the 20th century, Omaha merged the neighboring municipalities and settlements such as Florence, Dandy, Benson, and so on. At the same time, the whole South Omaha, including Dalman and Burlington Road, was merged. From East Omaha, the first in the history of the city in 1857, to El-Khorn, the most recent year in 2005, Omaha has always been focused on growth in the consolidation of surrounding municipalities and settlements.

Residential districts of West Omaha

Since the 1950s, the development of expressway networks and housing land development progressed, and racial conflicts increased in the 1960s, which led to the outflow of the middle class of white people to West Omaha in the suburbs, and the so-called White Flight occurred. The poor who had newly entered Omaha, on the other hand, lived in an old house near downtown. Those who succeeded in it fled west in search of a new house. In the suburbs, a gated community was formed and developed into Edge City. However, from the 1980s onward, reconstruction of the Old Market, Turner Park, and Gifford Park and the designation of the Omaha Railway Commercial Historical Area began, and the revitalization of downtown and midtown began. Today, the Old Market is not only a historic district registered as a National Register of Historic Properties, but also a busy street lined with shops, restaurants, galleries and so on.

preservation of historic buildings

The only Nash Block to survive in the historic Jover's Canyon. It is now an apartment called Green House.

Many historic buildings remain in Omaha. Since the Jovers Canyon Historical District and the 24 historical buildings in the area were destroyed in 1989, the opportunity to preserve the historic buildings has increased in Omaha. In Douglas County, more than 10 historic districts and more than 150 historic buildings are registered as National Register of Historic Places. Among them, the house of Father Flanagan's boy, the Houseboat Hazard (AM-240) and Omaha Union Station are also designated as national historic buildings. The City of Omaha Landmark Heritage Reservation Commission, which has independently designated the Omaha Landmark Historic Buildings, is working with the mayor and the city council to preserve the historic buildings. In addition, the Douglas County Historical Association is an important historical organization in the region.

downtown Omaha City Hall

Omaha has adopted a mayoral system. The mayor is the head of the city's administration, and under the Charter of Cities adopted in 1956, he manages and supervises the seven bureaus (finance, legal affairs, parks, recreation, public property, personnel affairs, city planning, public safety, public works) of the city government. Of these seven bureaus, the Director-General of the Legal Affairs Bureau is elected from civil officers, but the Mayor will appoint the Director-General for the other six bureaus. The mayor's term of office is four years, and he is elected by a vote from all the cities, and there is no particular restriction on his selection. The longest mayor in Omaha's history was James Dalman, the "cowboy Jim" who served for over 20 years in the eighth period. During Dalman's term, the bar thrived in Omaha, and Dalman was regarded as "the most drinkable city in the United States." Darlman was close to the boss, Tom Denison, who dominated Omaha at the time. During Darlman's term, the city government shifted from the previous system of mayor to the system of a commission. In 1956, the city government returned to the system of mayor as stipulated in the city charter.

The city assembly, the city's legislative body, consists of seven members. Seven city members were selected one by one from a single constituency that divided the city into seven, and their term of office was four years. The mayor has the right to refuse the ordinance adopted by the city council, but if more than five city councilors are in favor (or against) of the ordinance, the right to refuse becomes invalid.

Omaha belongs to the Nebraska second district of the Federal House of Representatives. Despite the Republican dominance of Nebraska's three constituencies, the Republican and Democratic powers compete against the first and third constituencies in the suburbs of the provincial capital Lincoln and Omaha Lincoln and the rural areas, partly because the second is an urban district. Since 1999, Nebraska has been elected to the Presidential Election from the traditional "Win All States Wins All State Electors" scheme to allocate one elector for each House of Representatives election, and the rest to be acquired by the State Winners. In the 2008 presidential election campaign, Barack Obama's campaign focused on the largest and most diverse city of the state, Omaha Office, with 5150050005030000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mike Fahey, then Democratic mayor, said in the campaign that "I will do anything to get Obama to win this second Nebraska constituency." Bob Kerry, a former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, and Ben Nelson, the incumbent (then) Federal Senator, also came to Obama's support in the Omaha campaign. In the election, Obama won the second constituency and the Nebraska constituency were McCain 4 and Obama 1. It was the first time in 44 years since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 that a Democratic candidate won an electoral cast in Nebraska.

Omaha Police Headquarters

The security of modern Omaha is a bit worse than the U.S. average, but better than that of neighboring major cities. According to data from Morgan Quitnot (CQ Press), Omaha's security is worse than that of Lincoln and Sioux Falls, but is about the same as in Denver and Des Moines, a little better than Wichita and much better than Kansas City (both on the Missouri and Kansas sides).

However, Omaha, a historical city, was a town of ill order. From the establishment in the 1850s to the 1930s, Omaha was an outlaw zone where all kinds of gambling were virtually approved. In the 1930s and 1970s, gambling in Omaha was dominated by Italian crime groups. In the middle of the 20th century, Omaha became a hub of illegal gambling, prostitution and drug trade. The tensions, unemployment and poverty among the race, combined to make Omaha's security worse. In 1986, when a Los Angeles gang established a branch in Omaha, Omaha's violent crime rate rose sharply. From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, violent crime by gangs and numerous incidents between the Omaha police and the African community worsened the relationship between the North Omaha and the South Omaha groups. Since then, Hispanics, mainly living in South Omaha, are suffering from poverty, adaptation to new societies and discrimination.

Nowadays, gambling in Omaha is only allowed in the Kino, the lottery, and the Parimüell style, and casinos are considered illegal. On the other hand, all gambling is legal in Iowa and casinos are also operating in Council Bluffs. In 2008, the National Indian Casino Committee approved the construction of an Indian casino in Carter Lake, a detached part of Iowa, surrounded by the Omaha region, by the Ponca tribe in Nebraska, causing a stir.

The Quiet Plaza where the headquarters of Berkshire Hathaway is located

Since the 1990s, the regional economy of Omaha, which had been supported by the railway and the meat industry until the middle of the 20th century, has diversified into the banking, insurance, telecommunications and construction industries. Newsweek magazine listed Omaha as one of the 10 best cities in the high-tech industry in 2001. In Omaha, six national fiber-optic networks gather. In the 2016 Forbes magazine's "Good Place for Business and Career" ranking, Omaha is ranked 46th in 200 cities across the United States and 9th in the Midwest. There are four Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Omaha.

Apart from the above, the main companies based in Omaha include the Operations Headquarters of Opinion Research and Consulting Co., Ltd., the TD Ameritade Inc., the Warner Enterprises Inc., the Warner Enterprises Inc., the Green Planes Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the West Corporation Inc., the West Corporation, the West Corporation, the First National of Nebraska, the local bank, etc.

In addition to these companies, in terms of employment in the region, the health care industry is also important, such as the Ofat Air Force Base, Regent Health, Methodist Health Center, Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medical Center.

Epley Airfield

The commercial airport, which serves as the gateway to Omaha, is located about 5.5km northeast of the downtown and is located in the East Omaha area in the April Airfield (IATA: OMA). The airport has two main airlines that depart from and depart from their respective hub airports, and there are direct annual flights in 22 cities (26 airports).

Downtown I-480

The interstate expressway I-80 runs east-west through the southern part of the city. I-80 is the only inter-state highway in Nebraska, crossing the continent from the New York Metropolitan Area to San Francisco City. I-480, a branch line of the I-80, runs north and west as if surrounding downtown. National Route 75 is an expressway to the north from the northwest end of I-480 and to the North Omaha area. Another branch line, I-680, runs through the north end and west of the city, forming the Outer Loop Line of Omaha. West Dodge Road (National Route 6 and National Route 288) and National Route 275 west of I-680 are highways connecting Omaha and Fremont. The I-29 has not yet passed through the Omaha area, nor even the Nebraska area, but it is in Council Bluffs where it meets I-80 and runs from the Omaha area to the south towards Kansas City and to the north towards Sue City Sioux Falls Fargo.

Omaha station of Amtrak. On the left is Burlington Railway Station.

Omaha was called 'the gateway to the West' because it became the starting point of the transcontinental railway and occupied an important place in the history of transportation in the United States. Under the then president Abraham Lincoln's presidential decree, the starting point of the Union Pacific Railway was Council Bluffs, but it was Omaha that actually started the construction. It was in 1872 that a bridge was built on the Missouri River, and the railway connecting the east of Council Bluffs and the west of Omaha was connected. In the middle of the 20th century, most of the major railways passed through Omaha. In the latter half of the twentieth century, the interstate expressway network was improved and automobiles also became the main character of land transportation in Omaha, a railroad city, but Union Pacific Railway Station was registered in 1971, Burlington Station was registered in 1974, respectively, and in 1996, the whole area including these stations was registered as the National Historical Register as a commercial and historical district of Omaha Railway Co., Ltd., and in 1996, the entire area was registered as the National Historical Register, and the history of the prosperity of these stations has been handed down to the present day. Next to Burlington Station, there is a new station building built by Amtrack in 1983, and the long-distance train, the California Zefer, connects Chicago and San Francisco (actually, Emmeriville Station on the opposite shore), stops once a day for both the Chicago area and the Denver Salt Lake City Emery Building area.

South of the downtown, at the southeast end of the Old Market, to the north of Amtrak Station is the bus terminal of Burlington Trail-Ways, which is affiliated with Greyhound. In addition to buses bound for Chicago and Denver, buses bound for Jefferson Lines in the Kansas City and Sioux Falls, buses bound for Denver in Express Arrow and Fremont Columbus Norfolk in the state arrive at and depart from the bus terminal. In January 2017, although buses between Chicago and Omaha were discontinued because of the low demand caused by the decline in gasoline prices, MegaBus Co., Ltd. extended the service to Lincoln in March 2017 in cooperation with Windsor Lines Inc. and revived. One round trip a day stops at Omaha, Des Moines, Iowa City and Maureen.

As a public transportation facility in the city, there is a route bus called Metro Transit operated by the Omaha Municipal Transportation Bureau. The bus network has Route 28, and covers Council Bluffs and Bellevue in the southern suburb as well as Omaha City.

Clayton University

Clayton University has a 132-acre (534,000m²) campus in the north-west of downtown, at the northeastern corner of the junction where I-480 and National Route 75 meet. Founded in 1878, Doshisha University is a medium-sized private university of the Catholic (Society of Jesus) group, having seven faculties and graduate schools, namely the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Management, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Teeth, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, and about 8,000 students. Blue Jays, a sports team from the university, belongs to the Big East Conference of NCAA Division I and compete in six men's and eight women's events. The University of Clayton is ranked about 100th among all the U.S. universities in the ranking of US News & World Report universities. The school also concluded an exchange student agreement with Sophia University, a Japanese university affiliated with the Society of Jesus.

University of Nebraska Omaha

Nebraska University's Omaha campus is located about 6.5km west of downtown and on the south side of Dodge Street in Central Omaha. The school is a state university of integrated studies that forms the University of Nebraska system with Lincoln's main school and Kearney. The school has six faculties of liberal arts, management, education, communication, art and media, information and science, science and technology, and administration and community services, as well as graduate schools and 200 major programs with about 15,000 students. The school's sports team, Marberix, belongs to the NCAA Division I Summit League, which is competing in six men's and nine women's events.

About 2.5km east of the campus of the University of Nebraska, Omaha, Midtown, is home to the University of Nebraska's Medical Center, where the University of Nebraska's Medical Department is located. The school is particularly focused on primary care, and the ranking of medical schools for the US News & World Report is ranked among the 25th in the U.S. primary care category.

In addition, the following universities have campus in Omaha.

• Clarkson College: A private university affiliated with the Anglican Church. put a campus in midtown It was established in 1888. It has partnered with the University of Nebraska Medical Center to focus on education in medical-related areas.
• College of Saint Mary - Catholic private women's college. A campus is located in the south of Central Omaha, to the southwest of the University of Nebraska, Omaha. It was established in 1923.
• Nebraska Methodist College - Methodist Private University West of Central Omaha, the campus is located west of the University of Nebraska, Omaha. It was established in 1891.
• Grace University: A private university originated from the Bible School. He had a campus in South Omaha. It was established in 1943. Closed in 2018

The K-12 program in Omaha is supported mainly by the Omaha Public School District, the largest school district in Nebraska, the West Side Community School District covering the West Omaha District, the Millard Public School District covering the Mirard District, and the public schools under the jurisdiction of the Elkhorn Public School District covering the Elkhorn District. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Omaha has 53 primary schools and 17 secondary schools within its jurisdiction, and has 19,000 children and students. In addition, Brownell-Talbot, the only private elementary, junior high and high school in Nebraska, which carries out the integrated education from preschool to twelfth grade, is also located in Omaha.

Omaha is also a cultural center. Many of Omaha's historical and cultural landmarks are also covered by the Boston Globe and the New York Times.

Museums and museums

The Durham Museum, located to the south of the downtown area, refurbished the Union Pacific Railway Station, which was built in 1931, and converted to the museum. The museum permanently exhibits old coins, old documents, and things related to the history of Omaha, including things related to the Transmississipi International Exposition. The museum is also a affiliated museum of the Smithsonian Association.

Joslyn Museum

The Jothlin Museum is located in the northwest corner of the downtown, at the northeastern corner of Dodge Street and 24th Street, which are close to the campus of Clayton University. The Art Deco-style museum was opened in 1931 after the death of George Joslin, who made a fortune in Omaha, with the donation of his widow, Sarah. The collection covers 11,000 items from ancient times to modern times, and in particular focuses on the works of ancient Greek pottery, the works of the Renaissance Baroque period, the works of French paintings in the 19th century, the works of impressionists, the works of Native American artists, and works of the Western countries. In the outdoor garden, sculptures are on display.

At the corner of 13th Street and Mike Fire Street in North Downtown, there is a painting of the Ferrtile Ground (fertile ground), one of the largest wall paintings in the United States, with an area of 32,500 square feet (3,020m²). The mural paintings on the walls on the east and north sides of the Energy Systems building were drawn by Meg Salisman, a mural painter in Philadelphia, that took one year from June 2008, depicting the past, present and future of Omaha. In producing the mural paintings, Cuit Sands Corporation paid the cost of producing the murals as a return to the community of Omaha, and Bemis Contemporary Art Center established by Jun KANEKO, a ceramic artist living in Omaha, who was from Japan, worked on consulting and project management.

Music and stage arts

Omaha Community Playhouse

Omaha Community Playhouse is located at the southwest corner of Central Omaha's Cas Street and 69th Street. Omaha Community Playhouse is the largest community theater in the United States. The theater opened in 1924 and produced Henry Fonda and Dorothy McGuire who were on stage at the age of 20.

Orpheu Theater

To the west of the downtown Old Market, the Orpheu Theater is located on the first floor of the City National Bank Building (also called the Orpheu Tower), the first high rise building in Omaha in 1910. The theater was originally a theater for a boarding building that entered the building in 1927. Now, the theater is home to Opera Omaha. The City National Bank Building and the Orpheu Theater were registered as National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Holland Performing Arts Center

Three blocks north-east from the Orpheu Theater, and on the north side of Jean Reich Mall, there is a modern Holland Performing Arts Center. The center has 2,000 concert halls, 400 concert halls and a courtyard capable of housing up to 1,000 people. Omaha Symphony Orchestra, an orchestra of Omaha, is based in the Holland Performing Arts Center.

Historically, as mentioned above, since the 1920s, Omaha had become a center of black music, such as R&B and Jazz, especially in North Omaha, where many African residents lived. The Big Band, which had a musical influence, such as the Cotton Club Boys led by Ana May Winburn and the Serenades led by Lloyd Hunter, was born, and it also produced musicians such as Winoney HARRIS, who later became the pioneer of rock 'n' roll and also influenced Elvis PRESLEY, Preston Love, the Great Lord of Alto SAX in Jazz, Buddy Miles, and Luigi Waits, a drama.

sport

TD Ameritrade Park Omaha

Although there are no teams of the four major North American professional sports leagues in Omaha, there are several teams such as the Lower League. The StormChasers of baseball is a group of AAA-class minor leagues affiliated with the Kansas City Royals and is affiliated with the Pacific Coast League (North American Conference Area). Lingerie Football's Omaha Hart is a team established in the 2013 expansion. The Omaha Lancers of the Ice Hockey League belong to the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest-ranking junior ice hockey league team, and is a powerful figure who has also produced players in the NHL after seven rounds of the Clark Cup (equivalent to the Stanley Cup of NHL). In the past, Kansas City Omaha Kings (now Sacramento Kings), the three seasons from 1972/1973 to 1974/1975, has been based in both Kansas City and Omaha.

However, Omaha is more known than these sports teams as the host place for the College World Series held every June. The NCAA baseball finals, the tournament, have been held in Omaha since 1950, the fourth tournament. Until 2010, the event was held at Omaha Municipal Stadium (later renamed Rosenblatt Stadium), and since 2011, it has been held at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, a newly completed TD Americano Park in North Downtown. Also, TD Ameritade Park Omaha is the home of the baseball team at Clayton University Blue Jays.

The National Olympic Competition for Swimming in the United States in 2008, 2012, and 2016 was held at Century Link Center Omaha. The multi-purpose arena has been used as the home of the men's basketball team at Clayton University Blue Jays, as well as for concerts and the shareholders' meeting at Berkshire Hathaway.

recreation

"Desert Dome" at Henry Dolly Zoo

Located in South Omaha, the Henry Dolly Zoo is one of the best in the world. The park opened in 1894 as the Riverview Park Zoo, after the death of Henry Dolly, the chief of World Publishing Company, in 1963, it received a donation of $750,000 from the widow Margaret, and two years later, it continued to expand under the control of the Omaha Zoology Association, which was established in 1965, and continues to its current state. The 130 acres (526,000m²) of the garden is divided into more than 10 themes, including the grasslands of the African continent, the Malagasy island, the forest of the orangutan, and the valley of the gorilla, among which the 'desert dome' and 'rain forest' are the largest indoor mock environment in North America. An aquarium and IMAX theater are also located in the park. In 'Lagoon' in the eastern part of the park, colored carp which grew and grew from young fish donated by Shizuoka City, a sister city of Omaha, were raised in the 1970s.

From the Henry Dolly Zoo, to the northeast of the I-80, there is a botanical garden called Laureitzen Gardens. Within the 100 acres (405,000m²) of the park, there are barazono, peony garden, herb garden, wild bird sanctuary, greenhouse, etc. In the garden, gardens of Japanese gardens have been underway since 2005, and a replica of Mt. Fuji, 377.6 inches (9.6m) high and 'Sunpu-jo Gate' was completed as the first phase. In 2016, Shizuoka City established 'Sunpu-jaya' (Sunpu-jaya Teahouse) in the Japanese traditional architectural style on the grounds of the Japanese garden to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sister city alliance with Omaha. The park also houses Kennéfick Park, which is the center of the Union Pacific Railroad's contribution to the development of Omaha and the West.

food culture

Goltz's T-bone steak

The specialty of Omaha, which developed in the meat industry after the Union Stock Yard was established in the 1880s and became the center of the meat industry in the U.S. in the latter half of the 1950s, after surpassing Chicago, was beef steak. Omaha has a number of steak houses, of which Golats, founded in 1944 in southern Midtown and topped with a grilled T-bone steak with two parts, Sarloin and Tenderloin, are known as the most favorite steak house of Warren Buffet.

There are various theories about the origin of Rubensand, and one of them is said to have been invented in 1925 by Ruben Krakowski, a food wholesaler in Omaha. Eventually, Charles Simmel, a Krakowski poker and the owner of the Blackstone Hotel in the city, added the Rubensand to the hotel's menu. In 1956, Fern Snyder, a chef at the Rose Bowl restaurant in the city, presented the Rubens Sand with a combination of rye bread, sauerkraut and Swiss cheese at the National Sandwich Idea Contest and won the Grand Prize. Then Rubensand became known all over the country.

religion

St. Cecilia Cathedral

Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple

There are various religions in Omaha that reflect its historical heritage. Christianity has built churches all over the city since the Catholic Church built St. Mary's Church in 1856, the early years of the city history. The Mormon sect, which founded a religious city in 1846, has placed Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, the only temple in Nebraska, in the Florence area of North Omaha. In 1856, many of the Jews settled in Japan as merchants and business men, and from the early days, orthodox and reformist groups were working to establish a powerful congregation in this place, and there are several synagogues in the city even today.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Omaha has the Cathedral of Saint Cecilia in the midtown as the cathedral of the bishop. This Spanish-Renaissance-style cathedral was built in 1905 and was registered as a National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The parish was established in 1885 as the Omaha Diocese which had jurisdiction over the Nebraska and Wyoming Territories, and was later divided into the Sian, Lincoln and Kearney (later Grand Island) diocese, and after that, even after the Archbishop was promoted to 1945, the area was controlled north of the Platte River in the eastern part of the state. The parish also serves as a parish, controlling the Lincoln Diocese which covers the south of the Platt River and the Grand Island Diocese which covers the north of the Platt River in the west and central parts of the state.

urban population

The population of each of the counties that form the metropolitan area and the metropolitan area of Omaha is as follows (National Census of 2010)

Omaha Council Bluffs metropolitan area

Omaha Council Bluffs Fremont metropolitan area

urban population transition

Below is a graph and chart showing the population changes from 1860 to 2010 in Omaha.

In 2015, Omaha donated a ceramic statue to the city to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sister city's partnership with Shizuoka City. It was established in Nihondaira Zoo in Suruga Ward, Kyoto City. Junsaku KANEKO.

Omaha has established a sister-city relationship with the following six cities.

• Shizuoka City (Shizuoka Prefecture in the Chubu region of Japan)
• Yantai City (Shandong Province, People's Republic of China)
• Shaurei (Jemaitiya District, Lithuania)
• Nace (Province of Kildare, Republic of Ireland)
• Harapa, Veracruz, Mexico
• Braunschweig, NY

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• Omaha Convention & Visitors Bureau
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Coordinates: 41 degrees 15 minutes 25 seconds north latitude 95 degrees 56 minutes 27 seconds west longitude / 41.256944 degrees north latitude 95.940833 degrees west longitude / 41.256944 degrees west longitude; -95.940833