Minneapolis

{{Main|History of Minneapolis}}

{{Further|Dakota people|Ojibwe|Bdóte|US–Dakota War of 1862}}

Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=40}} Archaeologists have evidence that since 1000 A.D.,{{cite news |title=Which Indigenous tribes first called Minnesota home? |url=https://www.startribune.com/native-american-dakota-ojibwe-history/600097050/ |last=Furst |first=Randy |date=October 8, 2021 |access-date=November 3, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103230331/https://www.startribune.com/native-american-dakota-ojibwe-history/600097050/ |url-status=live}} they were the Dakota (one half of the Sioux nation),{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=365n}} and, after the 1700s,{{sfn|McConvell|Rhodes|Güldemann|2020|pp=560, 564|loc="Finally in this time frame other groups of Ojibwes began pushing to the west and southwest, at the expense of the Dakota groups"}} the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of the Anishinaabe nations).{{sfn|Treuer|2010|p=3}} Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=15}} One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte,{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=15}} the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land;{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=6}} they have no traditions of having immigrated.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|pp=3–4|loc="William H. Keating, a geologist who came to the Minnesota area on an exploratory expedition in 1823, observed, 'The Dacotas have no tradition of having ever emigrated, from any other place, to the spot on which they now reside...'}} In 1680, cleric Louis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people call Owámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St. Anthony of Padua for his patron saint.{{sfn|DeCarlo|2020|p=15}}

File:Dakota-Interment-Pike Island.jpg at Fort Snelling during the winter of 1862{{cite web |title=The US-Dakota War of 1862 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |date=November 23, 2015 |url=https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/us-dakota-war |access-date=April 13, 2024 |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920024828/https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/us-dakota-war |url-status=live}}{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=194}}]]

In the space of sixty years, the US seized all of the Dakota land and forced them out of their homeland.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|pp=134, 136|loc=Page 136: "Treaties played a crucial role in the increasing separation of the Dakota from their homeland in the years between 1805 and 1858, leading up to their ultimate expulsion by military force in 1863–64." and page 134: "For the Dakota the word cessions might well be replaced with seizures..." and "Collectively these treaties included three great cessions, comprising the Treaties of 1825, 1837, and 1851"}} Purchasing most of modern-day Minneapolis, Zebulon Pike made the 1805 Treaty of St. Peter with the Dakota.{{efn|Because President Thomas Jefferson had not authorized Pike's trip, which was made at the behest of James Wilkinson, the new governor of the Louisiana territory, Pike did not have the authority to make a treaty.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=14}} Pike valued the land at $200,000 {{USDCY|200000|1805}}{{Inflation/fn|US}} in his journal but omitted the value in Article 2 of the treaty. Pike gave the chiefs {{convert|60|gal|l}} of liquor and $200 {{USDCY|200|1805}}{{Inflation/fn|US}} in gifts at the signing.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=141}} In 1808, the US Senate authorized one hundredth of Pike's estimate and added acreage,{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=141}} paying $2,000 {{USDCY|2000|1805}}{{Inflation/fn|US}} for the land in 1819.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=13}}}} Pike bought a {{convert|9|sqmi|sqkm|adj=on}} strip of land—coinciding with the sacred place of Dakota origin{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=15}}—on the Mississippi south of Saint Anthony Falls,{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=4}} with the agreement the US would build a military fort and trading post there and the Dakota would retain their usufructuary rights.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=77}} In 1819, the US Army built Fort Snelling{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-xpm-2012-sep-16-la-tr-ftsnellingminnesota-20120916-story.html |last1=Watson |first1=Catherine |date=September 16, 2012 |access-date=December 27, 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |title=Ft. Snelling: Citadel on a Minnesota bluff |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507133632/https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-xpm-2012-sep-16-la-tr-ftsnellingminnesota-20120916-story.html |url-status=live}} to direct Native American trade away from British-Canadian traders and to deter war between the Dakota and Ojibwe in northern Minnesota.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=82}} Under pressure from US officials{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=4|loc="government officials put great pressure on Dakota leaders to be quick about signing a treaty..."}} in a series of treaties, the Dakota ceded their land first to the east and then to the west of the Mississippi, the river that runs through Minneapolis.{{cite web |website=The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |url=https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/treaties/minnesota-treaties |title=Minnesota Treaties |date=August 14, 2012 |access-date=November 16, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=August 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825023515/http://www.usdakotawar.org/history/treaties/minnesota-treaties |url-status=live}}{{efn|In the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and Treaty of Mendota, the US took all Dakota land west of the Mississippi,{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=108}} about {{convert|24|e6acre}},{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=182}} in exchange for a {{convert|10|mi|km|adj=on}} wide reservation on the Minnesota River{{sfn|Folwell|1921|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofminneso02folw/page/216/ 216]}} and about $3 million {{USDCY|3000000|1851}}.{{Inflation/fn|US}} After expenses, the Dakota were promised fifty years of annuities in goods{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=171}} and interest on $1,360,000 {{USDCY|1360000|1851}} and $1,410,000 {{USDCY|1410000|1851}};{{Inflation/fn|US}} the US kept the principal.{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=30}} The Dakota could not read English, and their interpreters worked for the US. In Mendota, negotiator Wakute said he feared signing a treaty because the prior treaty was changed from the one he had signed.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|pp=5, 188}} Indeed, the US Congress ratified amendments after the fact, and refused to consider payment unless the Dakota agreed to their new terms—in 1852 Congress struck the reservation from the final treaty.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=197}} Negotiators Luke Lea and Alexander Ramsey had promised the Dakota they would prosper, and they rushed the transaction.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=189–192}} The chiefs were asked to sign a third paper in 1851—onlookers assumed it was a third copy of the treaty{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|pp=180–181}}—that Ramsey later declared was a "solemn acknowledgment" of the Dakota's debt to traders.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=191}} Ramsey, as territorial governor, enforced the trader's paper, distributing the monies to himself, Henry Sibley, and their friends.{{sfn|Anderson|2019|pp=32–33}}}} Dakota leaders twice refused to sign the next treaty until they were paid for the previous one.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=187, 193}} In the decades following these treaty signings, the federal US government rarely honored their terms.{{Cite web |website=The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |title=Treaties |url=https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/treaties |access-date=June 1, 2021 |date=July 31, 2012 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |quote=These treaties, which were almost wholly dishonored by the U.S. government... |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815133626/https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/treaties |url-status=live}} At the beginning of the American Civil War, annuity payments owed in June 1862 to the Dakota by treaty were late, causing acute hunger among the Dakota.{{sfn|Blegen|1975|pp=265–267}}{{efn|Part of the delay was a month's indecision in the US Treasury about appropriating gold or greenbacks and in Congress, which was preoccupied with Civil War finance. Gold arrived in the region just a few hours after settlers had been killed and war had begun.{{sfn|Folwell|1921|pp=237–238}}}} Facing starvation{{sfn|Anderson|2019|loc=p. 55: "...they had to beg for food from the settlers or starve"}} a faction of the Dakota declared war in August and killed settlers.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=307|loc=The uprising involved at most 1,000 of the Dakota population of more than 7,000}} Serving without any prior military experience, US commander Henry Sibley commanded raw recruits,{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=309}} volunteer mounted troops from Minneapolis and Saint Paul with no military experience.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=309, 314}} The war went on for six weeks in the Minnesota River valley. After a kangaroo court,{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=313|loc="what could only be termed a kangaroo court..."}}{{efn|General{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=312}} Henry Sibley rushed to complete the trials before winter.{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=225}} Trials were held from late September{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=217}} through early November 1862, in central Minnesota west of Minneapolis;{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=225}} on each day up to forty-three men stood trial.{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=225}} The Dakota men were without counsel, rarely spoke English, in some cases trials proceeded without witnesses, and no time was made for cross-examination.{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=228}} Historian Gary Clayton Anderson says, "In 90 percent of the trials, the entire event lasted only a minute or two...".{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=228}}}} 38 Dakota men were hanged.{{cite web |url=https://www.mnhs.org/lowersioux/learn/us-dakota-war-1862 |title=US-Dakota War of 1862 |access-date=November 6, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930235003/https://www.mnhs.org/lowersioux/learn/us-dakota-war-1862 |url-status=live}}{{Efn|Sibley appointed a commission of men thought later to be biased to hear the trials and planned to carry out executions immediately.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=313}} Of 400 Dakota, 303 were sentenced to death, 20 were sentenced to prison, 69 were acquitted, and 8 were released.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=314}} When his superior Major General John Pope reported the commission's findings to President Abraham Lincoln he had realized only the president can authorize executions. Historian Mary Lethert Wingerd writes that Lincoln and members of his cabinet were "taken aback" by the number of condemned and the irregular proceedings.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=316}} Lincoln then ordered a stay of execution until he could review the trial transcripts.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=316}} Minnesotans wanted revenge and many were outraged at the stay.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=318}} Lincoln was under pressure from Minnesotans,{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=319}} and wrote that he wished to avoid cruelty and to discourage another outbreak. He first decided that only rapists would be hanged, but only 2 Dakota met that condition. Then with the help of his lawyers,{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=251}} Wingerd writes that Lincoln "reluctantly"{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=319}} ordered that 39 men{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=253}} would be hanged; these men had been convicted of murdering civilians. One received a last minute reprieve. Minnesotans participated in lynch mobs and vigilantism against the Dakota, both condemned and friendly—2 men died of injuries sustained during attacks on Sibley's wagon train that took them to Mankato. Command transferred to Colonel Stephen Miller who oversaw the executions—he declared martial law and banned alcohol for the 4,000 spectators.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=324, 326}} The Dakota were reportedly cheerful as they walked to their deaths; a journalist wrote, "No equal number ever approached the gallows with greater courage, and more perfect determination to prove how little death can be feared".{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=327}} After what was the largest mass execution in US history,{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=262}}{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=327}} Minnesota officials discovered that in their haste, they had hanged 2 innocent men.{{cite web |website=The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |url=https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/trials-hanging |title=The Trials & Hanging |date=August 23, 2012 |access-date=September 2, 2024 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=September 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906194830/https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/trials-hanging |url-status=live}} Nearly all the men's bodies were dug up from their graves within 24 hours, some for trophies but most by physicians who wanted cadavers to dissect.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=327, 328}}}} The army force-marched 1,700 non-hostile Dakota men, women, children, and elders {{convert|150|mi|km}} to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling.{{sfn|Westerman|White|2012|p=194|loc="The remaining seventeen hundred women, children, and elderly, including hundreds of noncomabatants, some of whom had protected white settler refugees from the war, were rounded up and force-marched to a concentration camp beneath the bluffs of Fort Snelling...."}} Minneapolitans reportedly threatened more than once to attack the camp.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=320}} In 1863, the US "abrogated and annulled" all treaties with the Dakota.{{sfn|Vogel|2013|p=540}} With Governor Alexander Ramsey calling for their extermination,{{sfn|Anderson|2019|p=188}} most Dakota were exiled from Minnesota.{{cite web |website=The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |title=Forced Marches & Imprisonment |date=August 23, 2012 |url=https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/forced-marches-imprisonment |access-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508061622/https://www.usdakotawar.org/history/aftermath/forced-marches-imprisonment |url-status=live |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society}}

While the Dakota were being expelled, Franklin Steele laid claim to the east bank of Saint Anthony Falls,{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/wheat-farms-flour-mills-and-railroads-a-web-of-interdependence-teaching-with-historic-places.htm |title=Wheat Farms, Flour Mills, and Railroads: A Web of Interdependence |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=US National Park Service |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302182707/https://www.nps.gov/articles/wheat-farms-flour-mills-and-railroads-a-web-of-interdependence-teaching-with-historic-places.htm |url-status=live}} and John H. Stevens built a home on the west bank.{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/johnstev.htm |title=John H. Stevens House Museum |access-date=December 31, 2019 |publisher=US National Park Service |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815131225/https://www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/johnstev.htm |url-status=live}} In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town').{{efn|The University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online requires a Dakota font to read special characters.{{cite web |url=https://fmp.cla.umn.edu/dakota/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=73 |title=Bdeota O™uåwe |access-date=October 13, 2022 |work=University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013173548/https://fmp.cla.umn.edu/dakota/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=73 |url-status=live}} Here, Dakota to Latin alphabet transliteration is borrowed from Lerner Publishing in Minneapolis.{{sfn|Kimmerer|Smith|2022|p=302}}}} Residents had divergent ideas on names for their community. Charles Hoag proposed combining the Dakota word for 'water' (mni{{thinsp}}{{efn|In Atwater's history, Baldwin gives the Sioux word as Minne.{{sfn|Baldwin|1893a|p=39}} Riggs gives mini.{{sfn|Riggs|1992|p=314}} Williamson who was most familiar with Santee has Mini, and in the Yankton dialect, mni.{{sfn|Williamson|1992|p=257}} Here, mni is from the University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online.{{cite web |url=https://fmp.cla.umn.edu/dakota/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=846 |title=mni |access-date=October 13, 2022 |work=University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=October 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013174751/https://fmp.cla.umn.edu/dakota/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=846 |url-status=live}}}}) with the Greek word for 'city' ({{lang|el|polis}}), yielding Minneapolis. In 1851, after a meeting of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, leaders of east bank St. Anthony lost their bid to move the capital from Saint Paul, but they eventually won the state university.{{cite book |author=Christianson, Theodore |publisher=American Historical Society |title=Minnesota: The Land of Sky-tinted Waters: A History of the State And Its People |date=1935 |location=Chicago}} Courtesy Star Tribune and the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library, in {{cite news |title=How did Stillwater become home to Minnesota's first prison? |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-territorial-prison-stillwater-history/600199594/ |author=McKinney, Matt |date=August 19, 2022 |access-date=August 19, 2022 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=August 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819125313/https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-territorial-prison-stillwater-history/600199594/ |url-status=live}} In 1856, the territorial legislature authorized Minneapolis as a town on the Mississippi's west bank.{{sfn|Baldwin|1893a|p=39}} Minneapolis was incorporated as a city in 1867, and in 1872, it merged with St. Anthony.{{cite web |title=A History of Minneapolis: Governance and Infrastructure |url=http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422185148/http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=19 |archive-date=April 22, 2012 |access-date=March 12, 2023 |publisher=Hennepin County Library}}

File:Mid 1850s Daguerreotype of St. Anthony Falls (cropped, grayscale, levels).jpg {{circa|1850s}}]]

File:Loaders-Pillsbury-Minneapolis.jpg, 1939]]

Minneapolis originated around a source of energy: Saint Anthony Falls, the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi. Each of the city's two founding industries—flour and lumber milling—developed in the 19th century nearly concurrently, and each came to prominence for about fifty years.{{efn|Soldiers from Fort Snelling built a sawmill in 1820, and a gristmill in 1823, on the west bank near the falls.{{sfn|Liebling|Morrison|1966|p=18}}{{sfn|Kane|1987|p=165}}{{efn|"Minneapolis would be the nation's flour capital for 50 years." and "Begun in 1848, timber milling had lasted for almost 50 years."{{sfn|Anfinson|Madigan|Forsberg|Nunnally|2003}}}} The city's first commercial sawmill was built in 1848, and the first commercial gristmill in 1849.{{sfn|Gras|1922|pp=300–301}}}} In 1884, the value of Minneapolis flour milling was the world's highest.{{cite web |url=https://mnenvironments.carleton.edu/items/show/18 |title=Mills of Minneapolis |first1=Takuya |last1=Amagai |first2=Sahree |last2=Kasper |last3=the Minnesota Environments Team |access-date=August 21, 2024 |work=Minnesota Environments |publisher=Carleton College |archive-date=August 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820234838/https://mnenvironments.carleton.edu/items/show/18 |url-status=live}} In 1899, Minneapolis outsold every other lumber market in the world.{{sfn|King|2003|pp=25–26}} Through its expanding mill industries, Minneapolis earned the nickname "Mill City".{{sfn|Minnesota Historical Society|2003|p=1}} Due to the occupational hazards of milling, six companies manufactured artificial limbs.{{cite news |last=Hart |first=Joseph |url=http://www.citypages.com/1997-06-11/news/lost-city/full/ |date=June 11, 1997 |work=City Pages |title=Lost City |access-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104062935/http://www.citypages.com/1997-06-11/news/lost-city/full/ |archive-date=November 4, 2013}}

Disasters struck in the late 19th century: the Eastman tunnel under the river leaked in 1869; twice, fire destroyed the entire row of sawmills on the east bank;{{sfn|Kane|1987|pp=81, 122}} an explosion of flour dust at the Washburn A mill killed eighteen people{{sfn|Liebling|Morrison|1966|p=181}} and demolished about half the city's milling capacity;{{cite news |title=History: The Mill Explosion |last=de Beaulieu |first=Ron |date=Winter 2023 |work=Minnesota Alumni |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=June 5, 2023 |url=https://www.minnesotaalumni.org/stories/history-the-mill-explosion |archive-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605230020/https://www.minnesotaalumni.org/stories/history-the-mill-explosion |url-status=live}} and in 1893, fire spread from Nicollet Island to Boom Island to northeast Minneapolis, destroyed twenty blocks, and killed two people.{{cite news |last=Lileks |first=James |title=Minnesota Moment: Grain Belt stopped Northeast fire of 1893 |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-moment-grain-belt-stopped-northeast-fire-of-1893/490498241/ |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=December 1, 2023 |date=August 10, 2018 |archive-date=November 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122183909/https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-moment-grain-belt-stopped-northeast-fire-of-1893/490498241/ |url-status=live}}

The lumber industry was built around forests in northern Minnesota, largely by lumbermen emigrating from Maine's depleting forests.{{sfn|Blegen|1975|p=320}}{{sfn|Larson|2007|p=15}} The region's waterways were used to transport logs well after railroads developed; the Mississippi River carried logs to St. Louis until the early 20th century.{{sfn|Lass|2000|pp=173–174}} In 1871, of the thirteen mills sawing lumber in St. Anthony, eight ran on water power, and five ran on steam power.{{sfn|Larson|2007|p=146}} Auxiliary businesses on the river's west bank included woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes, and wood-planing.{{cite web |last1=Frame |first1=Robert M. III |first2=Jeffrey |last2=Hess |title=Historic American Engineering Record MN-16: West Side Milling District |publisher=US National Park Service |url=http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/mn/mn0100/mn0100/data/mn0100data.pdf |date=January 1990 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |page=2 |archive-date=June 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612023256/https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/mn/mn0100/mn0100/data/mn0100data.pdf |url-status=live}} Minneapolis supplied the materials for farmsteads and settlement of rapidly expanding cities on the prairies that lacked wood.{{sfn|Larson|2007|pp=7, 29}} White pine milled in Minneapolis built Miles City, Montana; Bismarck, North Dakota; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska; and Wichita, Kansas.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=173}} Growing use of steam power freed lumbermen and their sawmills from dependence on the falls.{{sfn|Kane|1987|p=108|loc="Another factor which contributed to the decline of sawmilling at the falls was steam power"}} Lumbering's decline began around the turn of the century,{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=180}} and sawmills in the city including the Weyerhauser mill closed by 1919.{{cite web |title=The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings: Theme XVII-b |volume=2 |author=National Park Service and United States Department of the Interior |date=1966 |publisher=National Park Service |url=http://npshistory.com/publications/nhl/theme-studies/commerce-industry-2.pdf |quote=The last of Minneapolis' once great sawmills, that of Frederick Weyerhaeuser and Associates, closed forever in 1919. |access-date=August 27, 2023 |archive-date=August 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827182832/http://npshistory.com/publications/nhl/theme-studies/commerce-industry-2.pdf |url-status=live}} After depleting Minnesota's white pine,{{sfn|Risjord|2005|p=[https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0000risj/page/130/mode/2up 131]|loc="By then, however, the pine woods were virtually exhausted"}} some lumbermen moved on to Douglas fir in the Pacific Northwest.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=180|loc=Here, Lass calls the lumbermen's actions as cutting at a "rapacious rate", and calls out a "rapacious assault on the coniferous forests" on page 196}}

File:Control Data 6600 Victor Ruiz-grayscale.jpg and colleagues began work on the CDC 6600 (pictured) in downtown Minneapolis and completed the project in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1963.{{sfn|Price|2005|p=36}}]]

In 1877, Cadwallader C. Washburn co-founded Washburn-Crosby,{{sfn|Gray|1954|p=32}} the company that became General Mills.{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=283}}{{efn|In 1928, Washburn-Crosby merged with other local millers and changed its name to General Mills to reflect a wider product base including convenience foods like Wheaties.{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=283}}}} Washburn and partner John Crosby{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=162}} sent Austrian civil engineer William de la Barre to Hungary where he acquired innovations through industrial espionage.{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=277}} De la Barre calculated and managed the power at the falls and encouraged steam for auxiliary power.{{sfn|Kane|1987|p=118}} Charles Alfred Pillsbury and the C. A. Pillsbury Company across the river hired Washburn-Crosby employees and began using the new methods.{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=277}} The hard red spring wheat grown in Minnesota became valuable, and Minnesota "patent" flour was recognized at the time as the best bread flour in the world.{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=277}} In 1900, fourteen percent of America's grain was milled in Minneapolis{{sfn|Danbom|2003|p=277}} and about one third of that was shipped overseas.{{sfn|Gray|1954|p=41}} Overall production peaked at 18.5 million barrels in 1916.{{sfn|Liebling|Morrison|1966|p=180}} Decades of soil exhaustion, stem rust, and changes in freight tariffs combined to quash the city's flour industry.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=238}} In the 1920s, Washburn-Crosby and Pillsbury developed new milling centers in Buffalo, New York, and Kansas City, Missouri, while maintaining their headquarters in Minneapolis.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=238|loc="The anticipated decline came rather abruptly during the 1920s. By the end of that decade the Mill City produced only slightly more than half as much flour as it had at its zenith, and ranked third after Buffalo and Kansas City, Missouri."}} The falls became a national historic district,{{sfn|Kane|1987|p=186}} and the upper St. Anthony lock and dam is permanently closed.{{cite news |title=Army Corps studying dam removal that could restore free-flowing Mississippi River in Twin Cities |url=https://www.startribune.com/army-corps-studying-dam-removal-that-could-restore-free-flowing-mississippi-river-in-twin-cities/600216559/ |date=October 17, 2022 |last=Johnson |first=Chloe |access-date=June 28, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=June 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628194305/https://www.startribune.com/army-corps-studying-dam-removal-that-could-restore-free-flowing-mississippi-river-in-twin-cities/600216559/ |url-status=live}}

Columnist Don Morrison says that after the milling era waned a "modern, major city" emerged.{{sfn|Liebling|Morrison|1966|p=29}} Around 1900, Minneapolis attracted skilled workers{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=104|loc="Thus while Minneapolis began to lose jobs in the mills, it began to acquire other jobs in management, financial administration, advertising, market research, product research and design, and other mid-level management and administrative positions. The effect was to upgrade the workforce..."}} who leveraged expertise from the University of Minnesota.{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=111|loc="The university's role grew more and more important as the 20th century rolled along, for basic research and experimentation grew more complex and costly and as time went by."}} In 1923, Munsingwear was the world's largest manufacturer of underwear.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=74}} Frederick McKinley Jones invented mobile refrigeration in Minneapolis, and with his associate founded Thermo King in 1938.{{cite news |title=Love the ice cream truck? Thank inventor Fred Jones |url=https://www.marketplace.org/2014/02/21/love-ice-cream-truck-thank-inventor-fred-jones/ |work=Marketplace |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |date=February 21, 2014 |access-date=May 23, 2023 |last=Wallace |first=Lewis |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523234102/https://www.marketplace.org/2014/02/21/love-ice-cream-truck-thank-inventor-fred-jones/ |url-status=live}} In 1949, Medtronic was founded in a Minneapolis garage.{{cite news |title=Man behind first wearable external pacemaker dies at age 94 |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/man-behind-first-wearable-external-pacemaker-dies-at-age-94-1.4144201 |date=October 22, 2018 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Bell Media |work=CTV News |access-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230524185243/https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/man-behind-first-wearable-external-pacemaker-dies-at-age-94-1.4144201 |url-status=live}} Minneapolis-Honeywell built a south Minneapolis campus where their experience regulating control systems earned them military contracts for the Norden bombsight and the C-1 autopilot.{{cite web |url=http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/digital-state/honeywell |title=Honeywell |access-date=May 22, 2023 |publisher=University of Minnesota Libraries |work=Charles Babbage Institute |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522231207/http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/digital-state/honeywell |url-status=live}} In 1957, Control Data began in downtown Minneapolis, where in the CDC 1604 computer they replaced vacuum tubes with transistors.{{cite web |last=Cotter |first=George |title=Seymour Cray and NSA October 5 |url=https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/history-today-articles/10%202018/05OCT2018%20SEYMOUR%20CRAY%20and%20NSA.pdf |date=October 5, 2021 |publisher=National Security Agency |access-date=August 17, 2024}} A highly successful business until disbanded in 1990, Control Data opened a facility in economically depressed north Minneapolis, bringing jobs and good publicity.{{cite web |url=http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/digital-state/control-data-corporation |title=Control Data Corporation |access-date=May 22, 2023 |publisher=University of Minnesota Libraries |work=Charles Babbage Institute |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522230028/http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/digital-state/control-data-corporation |url-status=live}} A University of Minnesota computing group released Gopher in 1991; three years later, the World Wide Web superseded Gopher traffic.{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol/ |title=The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol |first=Tim |last=Gihring |date=August 11, 2016 |work=MinnPost |access-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-date=February 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210211738/https://www.minnpost.com/business/2016/08/rise-and-fall-gopher-protocol/ |url-status=live}}

{{Wide image|Panorama-Minneapolis-1915.jpg|1000px|alt=panoramic view of Saint Anthony Falls and the Mississippi riverfront in 1915|Mississippi riverfront and Saint Anthony Falls in 1915. At left, Pillsbury, power plants and the Stone Arch Bridge. Today the Minnesota Historical Society's Mill City Museum is in the Washburn "A" Mill, across the river just to the left of the falls. At center-left are Northwestern Consolidated mills. The tall building is Minneapolis City Hall. In the right foreground are Nicollet Island and the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.}}

{{further|List of incidents of civil unrest in Minneapolis–Saint Paul|2020–2023 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest}}

File:Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis, 06-1934 - NARA - 541925.jpg, 1934. The May (pictured) and subsequent July battles killed four men, two on each side.{{cite web |url=https://slphistory.org/dunnebrothers/ |title=The Teamsters Strike of 1934 |publisher=St Louis Park Historical Society |access-date=June 25, 2023 |archive-date=June 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625183654/https://slphistory.org/dunnebrothers/ |url-status=live}}]]

In many ways, the 20th century in Minneapolis was a difficult time of bigotry and malfeasance, beginning with four decades of corruption.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=71}} Known initially as a kindly physician, mayor Doc Ames made his brother police chief, ran the city into crime, and tried to leave town in 1902.{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|pp=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/40/mode/2up 41–47]}} The Ku Klux Klan was a force in the city from 1921{{sfn|Hatle|Vaillancourt|2009–2010|p=362}} until 1923.{{sfn|Chalmers|1987||p= [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/149 149]}} The gangster Kid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation between the 1920s and the 1940s.{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/58/mode/2up 58]}} After Minnesota passed a eugenics law in 1925, the proprietors of Eitel Hospital sterilized people at Faribault State Hospital.{{sfn|Ladd-Taylor|2005|p=242|loc="Eitel, the founder of the private Eitel Hospital and a vice-president of Dight's eugenics society, performed the first 150 surgeries; his nephew George D. Eitel took over the work after the old man died in 1928"}}

During the summer of 1934 and the financial downturn of the Great Depression, the Citizens' Alliance, an association of employers, refused to negotiate with teamsters. The truck drivers union executed strikes in May and July–August.{{cite news |title=Remembering the truckers strike of 1934 |last=Nathanson |first=Iric |date=July 22, 2008 |access-date=June 8, 2023 |url=https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/remembering-truckers-strike-1934/ |work=MinnPost |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608211702/https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/remembering-truckers-strike-1934/ |url-status=live}} Charles Rumford Walker said that Minneapolis teamsters succeeded in part due to the "military precision of the strike machine".{{sfn|Walker|1937|pp=98–99}} The union victory ultimately led to 1935 and 1938 federal laws protecting workers' rights.{{cite web |url=https://teamster.org/about/teamster-history/the-minneapolis-strike/ |title=The Minneapolis Strike |date=February 4, 2020 |access-date=June 6, 2023 |publisher=International Brotherhood of Teamsters |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606211501/https://teamster.org/about/teamster-history/the-minneapolis-strike/ |url-status=live}}

From the end of World War I in 1918 until 1950, antisemitism was commonplace in Minneapolis—Carey McWilliams called the city the antisemitic capital of the US.{{cite web |url=https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/st-louis-park-eruv-jewish/history/anti-semtisim-in-minneapolis |title=Anti-Semitism in Minneapolis |work=Religions in Minnesota |publisher=Carleton College |access-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-date=June 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615182209/https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/st-louis-park-eruv-jewish/history/anti-semtisim-in-minneapolis |url-status=live}} Starting in 1936, a fascist hate group known as the Silver Shirts held meetings in the city.{{sfn|Weber|1991|pp=88–89}} In the 1940s, mayor Hubert Humphrey worked to rescue the city's reputation{{sfn|Caro|2002|pp=440, 454}} and helped the city establish the country's first municipal fair employment practices{{sfn|Garrettson|1993|p=85|loc="On the second try, the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) bill passed in 1948. It was the 'first municipal FEPC bill in America'"}} and a human-relations council that interceded on behalf of minorities.{{sfn|Reichard|1998|p=62}} However, the lives of Black people had not been improved.{{cite news |title=Why This Started in Minneapolis |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/revealing-the-divisive-history-of-minneapolis |author=Holder, Sarah |date=June 5, 2020 |access-date=May 27, 2021 |publisher=Bloomberg L.P. |work=CityLab |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817094227/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/revealing-the-divisive-history-of-minneapolis |url-status=live}} In 1966 and 1967—years of significant turmoil across the US—suppressed anger among the Black population was released in two disturbances on Plymouth Avenue.{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/115/mode/2up 115]|loc=Chapter 4: Plymouth Avenue Is Burning}} Historian Iric Nathanson says young Blacks confronted police, arson caused property damage, and "random gunshots" caused minor injuries in what was a "relatively minor incident" in Minneapolis compared to the loss of life and property in similar incidents in Detroit and Newark.{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|p=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/115/mode/2up 115]}} A coalition reached a peaceful outcome but again failed to solve Black poverty and unemployment.{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|pp=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/128/mode/2up 128–129]}} In the wake of unrest and voter backlash, Charles Stenvig, a law-and-order candidate, became mayor in 1969, and governed for almost a decade.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=139}}{{sfn|Nathanson|2010|pp=[https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/page/129/mode/2up 129–134]}}

File:Heart of the Earth Survival School-Minneapolis 1982.png's Heart of the Earth Survival School in 1983]]

Disparate events defined the second half of the 20th century. Between 1958 and 1963, Minneapolis demolished "skid row".{{efn|Minneapolis experienced the largest urban renewal plan undertaken in the US {{as of|2022|lc=y}}.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=128}}}} Gone were {{convert|35|acre|ha|adj=off|sigfig=1}} with more than 200 buildings, or roughly 40 percent of downtown, including the Gateway District and its significant architecture such as the Metropolitan Building.{{cite news |last=Hart |first=Joseph |title=Room at the Bottom |work=City Pages |volume=19 |issue=909 |date=May 6, 1998 |url=http://www.citypages.com/1998-05-06/news/room-at-the-bottom/ |access-date=December 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401180715/http://www.citypages.com/1998-05-06/news/room-at-the-bottom/ |archive-date=April 1, 2010}} Opened in 1967, I-35W displaced Black and Mexican neighborhoods{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=132}} in south Minneapolis.{{sfn|Craig|2023|pages=9–10}} In 1968, relocated Native Americans founded the American Indian Movement (AIM){{sfn|Weber|2022|page=141|loc="Explaining the name, Clyde Bellecourt remembered Alberta Downwind saying at AIM's founding: Indian is the word that they used to oppress us. Indian is the word we'll use to gain our freedom"}} in Minneapolis. Begun as an alternative to public and Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, AIM's Heart of the Earth Survival School taught Native American traditions to children for nearly twenty years.{{sfn|Davis|2013|p=193}} A same-sex Minneapolis couple appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court but their marriage license was denied.{{cite news |title=For Mpls. couple, gay marriage ruling is a victory 43 years in the making |last=Mumford |first=Tracy |date=July 16, 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2023 |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/16/baker-mcconnell |work=MPR News |archive-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605160544/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/07/16/baker-mcconnell |url-status=live}} They managed to get a license and marry in 1971, forty years before Minnesota legalized same-sex marriage.{{cite web |work=Minnesota Issues Resource Guides |url=https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=samesexmarriage |title=Same-Sex Marriage in Minnesota |date=July 2022 |publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library |access-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-date=June 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605160446/https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=samesexmarriage |url-status=live}} Immigration helped to curb the city's mid-20th century population decline. But because of a few radicalized persons, the city's large Somali population was targeted with discrimination after 9/11, when its hawalas or banks were closed.{{sfn|Weber|2022|pp=158–159}}

In 2020, 17-year-old Darnella Frazier recorded the murder of George Floyd;{{cite news |title=Damning Report After Floyd Murder Finds Rampant Police Discrimination in Minneapolis |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/report-damns-minneapolis-police-after-george-floyd-murder-read-full-text#xj4y7vzkg |last=Ceron |first=Ella |date=April 27, 2022 |access-date=March 12, 2023 |work=Bloomberg News |archive-date=May 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512071727/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-27/report-damns-minneapolis-police-after-george-floyd-murder-read-full-text#xj4y7vzkg |url-status=live}} Frazier's video contradicted the police department's initial statement.{{cite news |title=How a teenager's video upended the police department's initial tale. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/darnella-frazier-floyd-video.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421150451/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/darnella-frazier-floyd-video.html |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |author=Paybarah, Azi |date=April 20, 2021 |access-date=April 21, 2021 |work=The New York Times}} Floyd, a Black man, suffocated when Derek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck and back for more than nine minutes. Reporting on the local reaction, The New York Times said that "over three nights, a five-mile stretch of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage"{{Cite news |last=Stockman |first=Farah |date=July 3, 2020 |title='They Have Lost Control': Why Minneapolis Burned |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/minneapolis-government-george-floyd.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703221016/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/minneapolis-government-george-floyd.html |archive-date=July 3, 2020 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=February 6, 2021}}—destruction included a police station that demonstrators overran and set on fire.{{cite news |last1=Caputo |first1=Angela |last2=Craft |first2=Will |last3=Gilbert |first3=Curtis |date=June 30, 2020 |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/30/the-precinct-is-on-fire-what-happened-at-minneapolis-3rd-precinct-and-what-it-means |title='The precinct is on fire': What happened at Minneapolis' 3rd Precinct—and what it means |work=MPR News |access-date=July 1, 2020 |archive-date=November 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110091618/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/30/the-precinct-is-on-fire-what-happened-at-minneapolis-3rd-precinct-and-what-it-means |url-status=live}} Floyd's murder sparked international rebellions, mass protests,{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-black-lives-matter-impact/ |title=The global impact of George Floyd: How Black Lives Matter protests shaped movements around the world |date=June 4, 2021 |last1=Silverstein |first1=Jason |access-date=March 10, 2023 |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Interactive |archive-date=June 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605000855/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-floyd-black-lives-matter-impact/ |url-status=live}} and locally, years of ongoing unrest over racial injustice.{{sfn|Mitchell|2022|p=44|loc="Two years have passed since Floyd was killed, but the site where he died...continues to be contested space—an ongoing site of protest—but also a sacred location"}} As of 2024, protest continued daily at the intersection where Floyd died, now known as George Floyd Square, with the slogan "No justice, no street".Continuing protests in: {{cite news |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/25/no-justice-no-streets-4-years-after-murder-george-floyd-square-stands-in-protest |title='No Justice, No Streets': 4 years after murder, George Floyd Square stands in protest |first1=Josh |last1=Cobb |first2=Ngoc |last2=Bui |first3=Matthew |last3=Alvarez |first4=Emily |last4=Reese |first5=Emily |last5=Bright |date=May 25, 2024 |access-date=August 31, 2024 |work=MPR News |archive-date=September 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925184833/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/25/no-justice-no-streets-4-years-after-murder-george-floyd-square-stands-in-protest |url-status=live}} Minneapolis gathered ideas for the square and through community engagement promised final proposals for the end of 2024, that could be implemented by 2026 or thereafter.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/38th-chicago/community-engagement/community-engagement-resources/ |access-date=August 31, 2024 |title=George Floyd Square community engagement resources |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831235357/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/38th-chicago/community-engagement/community-engagement-resources/ |url-status=live}} Protesters continued to ask for twenty-four reforms—many now met; a sticking point was ending qualified immunity for police.

{{main|Geography of Minneapolis}}

{{further|Climate of Minnesota|Climate of Minneapolis–Saint Paul|Geology of Minnesota}}

File:Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis in 2003.jpg{{cite report |title=Water Resources Report 2021 |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2021-Water-Resources-Report-.pdf |date=November 2022 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |author1=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Environmental Management |access-date=February 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219155219/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2021-Water-Resources-Report-.pdf |archive-date=February 19, 2023 |url-status=live |page=17-1}}|alt=Clouds reflected in lake]]

The history and economic growth of Minneapolis are linked to water, the city's defining physical characteristic. Long periods of glaciation and interglacial melt carved several riverbeds through what is now Minneapolis.{{sfn|Wright|1990|pp=3–4}} During the last glacial period, around 10,000 years ago, ice buried in these ancient river channels melted, resulting in basins that filled with water to become the lakes of Minneapolis.{{sfn|Wright|1990|p=4}} Meltwater from Lake Agassiz fed the Glacial River Warren, which created a large waterfall that eroded upriver past the confluence of the Mississippi River, where it left a {{convert|75|ft|m|adj=on|abbr=off|sp=us}} drop in the Mississippi.{{sfn|Wright|1990|p=14}} This site is located in what is now downtown Saint Paul. The new waterfall, later called Saint Anthony Falls, in turn, eroded up the Mississippi about {{convert|8|mi|km|spell=in|abbr=off|sp=us}} to its present location, carving the Mississippi River gorge as it moved upstream. Minnehaha Falls also developed during this period via similar processes.{{sfn|Fremling|2005|pp=56–60}}{{sfn|Wright|1990|p=14}}

Minneapolis is sited above an artesian aquifer{{cite web |title=Minneapolis |publisher=Emporis |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/?id=101331 |access-date=January 12, 2021 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423121403/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/?id=101331 |archive-date=April 23, 2007}} and on flat terrain. Its total area is {{convert|59|sqmi|km2|1|abbr=off|sp=us}} of which six percent is covered by water.{{cite web |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/cped/planning/cped_soc98_5-environment |page=39 |title=Physical Environment |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210211119/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/business-services/planning-zoning/ |url-status=live}} The city has a {{convert|12|mi|km|adj=on}} segment of the Mississippi River, four streams, and 17 waterbodies—13 of them lakes,{{cite report |date=December 14, 2021 |pages=3–14, ES-4 |title=Water Resources Management Plan |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406224257/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |url-status=live}} with {{convert|24|mi|km}} of lake shoreline.{{cite report |date=December 14, 2021 |page=3-1 |title=Water Resources Management Plan |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406224257/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |url-status=live}}

A 1959 report by the US Soil Conservation Service listed Minneapolis's elevation above mean sea level as {{convert|830|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}}.{{cite report |last1=Harms |first1=G. F. |title=Soil Survey of Scott County, Minnesota |url=https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/minnesota/MN139/0/Scott_MN.pdf |access-date=January 28, 2021 |publisher=Soil Conservation Service |page=59 |date=October 1959 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217201439/https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/minnesota/MN139/0/Scott_MN.pdf |archive-date=February 17, 2017 |url-status=live}} The city's lowest elevation of {{convert|687|ft}} above sea level is near the confluence of Minnehaha Creek with the Mississippi River.{{cite web |title=Elevations and Distances in the United States |url=https://www.usgs.gov/publications/elevations-and-distances-united-states-1 |publisher=US Geological Survey |access-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210211123/https://www.usgs.gov/publications/elevations-and-distances-united-states-1 |url-status=live}} Sources disagree on the exact location and elevation of the city's highest point, which is cited as being between {{convert|967|and|985|ft|m}} above sea level.{{efn|In a 1975 article, reporter John Carman said the city's highest point is {{convert|967|ft|m}} at Deming Heights Park in the Waite Park neighborhood.{{cite news |last1=Carman |first1=John |title=Twin Cities: Different as night and day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/190546731 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |work=Minneapolis Star |date=September 8, 1975 |pages=1B, 5B |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128200944/http://www.newspapers.com/image/190546731/ |url-status=live}} The US Geological Survey lists the highest elevation as {{convert|980|ft|m}} but does not give a location. Geography professor John Tichy said the highest point is the site of Waite Park Elementary School at approximately {{convert|985|ft|m}} above sea level.{{cite news |last1=Tichy |first1=John |title=Waite Park School sits on Minneapolis' highest point |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/195185069 |access-date=January 17, 2021 |work=Star Tribune |date=July 18, 1996 |via=Newspapers.com |page=E17 |archive-date=January 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129073116/http://www.newspapers.com/image/195185069/ |url-status=live}} All of the cited sources that list locations say the highest point is within the Northeast section of the city.}}

{{wide image|Minneapolis skyline from Prospect Park Water Tower, July 2014 (crop).jpg|1000px|align-cap=left|The Minneapolis skyline seen from the Prospect Park Water Tower in 2014|alt=The Minneapolis skyline rises to its highest point at the center of the image, with the three tallest buildings standing out against a clear blue sky. Before the skyline are trees, university buildings, and residential complexes.}}

{{main|Neighborhoods of Minneapolis}}

File:Minneapolis Midtown Greenway.jpg in Midtown Phillips, one of the 83 neighborhoods of Minneapolis|alt=See caption]]

Minneapolis has 83 neighborhoods and 70 neighborhood organizations.{{cite web |title=Community and neighborhoods |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/neighborhoods/ |access-date=February 5, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208034647/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/neighborhoods/ |url-status=live}} In some cases, two or more neighborhoods act together under one organization.{{cite web |url=http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cofm/Neighborhood-Organizations/ |title=Neighborhood Organizations |access-date=February 5, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206000128/http://apps.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cofm/Neighborhood-Organizations/ |url-status=live}}

Around 1990, the city set up the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), in which every one of the city's eighty-some neighborhoods participated. Funded for 20 years through 2011, with $400 million tax increment financing{{cite web |pages=2, 3 |publisher=Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program |title=A Primer for the Neighborhood Revitalization Program |url=http://www.nrp.org/r2/AboutNRP/Basics/NRPPrimer.pdf |access-date=September 3, 2023 |archive-date=August 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802154424/https://www.nrp.org/R2/AboutNRP/Basics/NRPPrimer.pdf |url-status=live}} {{USDCY|400000000|2011}},{{Inflation/fn|US}} the program caught the eye of UN-Habitat, who considered it an example of best practices. Residents had a direct connection to government in NRP, whereby they proposed ideas appropriate for their area, and NRP reviewed the plans and provided implementation funds.{{cite web |title=Neighborhood and Community Relations: 2022–2027 Financial Plan |url=https://stories.opengov.com/gjIIKX8yy/published/undefined |publisher=City of Minneapolis |via=OpenGov |access-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906161624/https://stories.opengov.com/gjIIKX8yy/published/undefined |url-status=live}} The city's Neighborhood and Community Relations department took NRP's place in 2011{{cite news |url=https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/saying-good-bye-nrp/ |title=Saying good-bye to NRP |last=Yeoman |first=Shirley |date=February 9, 2012 |access-date=September 3, 2023 |newspaper=Twin Cities Daily Planet |archive-date=September 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903201447/https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/saying-good-bye-nrp/ |url-status=live}} and is funded only by city revenue. In 2019, the city released the Neighborhoods 2020 program, which reworked neighborhood funding with an equity-focused lens.{{cite web |author1=Neighborhood and Community Relations |title=Neighborhoods 2020 Program Guidelines |url=https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCAV2/15342/Neighborhoods-2020-Program-Guidelines-Draft.pdf |website=Legislative Information Management System |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=May 22, 2024 |date=February 2020 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522152630/https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/RCAV2/15342/Neighborhoods-2020-Program-Guidelines-Draft.pdf |url-status=live}} This reduced guaranteed funding, and several neighborhood organizations have since struggled with operations or merged with other neighborhoods due to decreased revenue.{{cite news |last1=Martucci |first1=Brian |title=Neighborhood org funding shift is leaving some struggling to maintain operations |url=https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/neighborhood-org-funding-shift-is-leaving-some-struggling-to-maintain-operations |access-date=May 22, 2024 |work=Southwest Voices |date=January 15, 2024 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522152629/https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/neighborhood-org-funding-shift-is-leaving-some-struggling-to-maintain-operations |url-status=live}} Base funding for every neighborhood organization increased in the 2024 city budget.{{cite web |title=City Council adopts Mayor Frey's 2024 City budget |date=December 5, 2023 |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2023/december/2024-city-budget/ |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=September 26, 2024 |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213102311/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2023/december/2024-city-budget/ |url-status=live}}

In 2018, the Minneapolis City Council approved the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which resulted in a citywide end to single-family zoning.{{cite news |url=http://spokesman-recorder.com/2018/12/07/city-council-approves-minneapolis-2040-plan/ |title=City Council approves Minneapolis 2040 plan |work=Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder |date=December 7, 2018 |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816133653/http://spokesman-recorder.com/2018/12/07/city-council-approves-minneapolis-2040-plan/ |url-status=live}} Slate reported that Minneapolis was the first major city in the US to make citywide such a revision in housing possibilities.{{Cite news |url=https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html |title=Minneapolis Confronts Its History of Housing Segregation |last=Grabar |first=Henry |date=December 7, 2018 |work=Slate |access-date=January 26, 2019 |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816073124/https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html |url-status=live}} At the time, 70 percent of residential land was zoned for detached, single-family homes,{{cite report |url=https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/ |title=How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning |publisher=The Century Foundation |access-date=March 13, 2023 |last=Kahlenberg |first=Richard D. |date=October 24, 2019 |archive-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182649/https://tcf.org/content/report/minneapolis-ended-single-family-zoning/ |url-status=live}} though many of those areas had "nonconforming" buildings with more housing units.{{cite news |url=https://streets.mn/2018/02/07/low-density-zoning-threatens-neighborhood-character/ |title=Low-density Zoning Threatens Neighborhood Character |last=Shaffer |first=Scott |date=February 7, 2018 |access-date=March 13, 2023 |work=Streets.mn |archive-date=March 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313183407/https://streets.mn/2018/02/07/low-density-zoning-threatens-neighborhood-character/ |url-status=live}} City leaders sought to increase the supply of housing so more neighborhoods would be affordable and to decrease the effects single-family zoning had caused on racial disparities and segregation.{{Cite news |url=https://politi.co/2Ld7TSN |title=How Minneapolis Freed Itself From the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes |last=Trickey |first=Erick |work=Politico |access-date=December 16, 2020 |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210211124/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/11/housing-crisis-single-family-homes-policy-227265/ |url-status=live |date=July 11, 2019}} The Brookings Institution called it "a relatively rare example of success for the YIMBY agenda".{{cite news |title=Minneapolis 2040: The most wonderful plan of the year |last1=Schuetz |first1=Jenny |date=December 12, 2018 |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/12/12/minneapolis-2040-the-most-wonderful-plan-of-the-year/ |access-date=October 15, 2019 |work=Brookings Institution |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818033213/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/12/12/minneapolis-2040-the-most-wonderful-plan-of-the-year/ |url-status=live}} From 2022 until 2024,{{cite news |title=Minneapolis cannot proceed with 2040 Plan, court rules |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-cannot-proceed-with-2040-plan-court-rules/600302266/ |last=Du |first=Susan |date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906135417/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-cannot-proceed-with-2040-plan-court-rules/600302266/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/appeals-court-reverses-2040-plan-injunction-minneapolis-to-revive-stalled-developments/600365610/ |work=Star Tribune |date=May 13, 2024 |last=Du |first=Susan |title=Appeals court reverses 2040 Plan injunction; Minneapolis to revive stalled developments |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516132535/https://www.startribune.com/appeals-court-reverses-2040-plan-injunction-minneapolis-to-revive-stalled-developments/600365610/ |url-status=live}} the Minnesota Supreme Court, the US District Court, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals arrived at competing opinions, first shutting down the plan, and then securing its survival. Ultimately in 2024, the state legislature passed a bill approving the city's 2040 plan.{{cite web |title=City moving forward with Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan |access-date=June 28, 2024 |date=June 25, 2024 |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2024/june/2040-plan/ |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=June 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240628194148/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2024/june/2040-plan/ |url-status=live}}

{{further|Climate of Minneapolis–Saint Paul}}

Minneapolis experiences a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa in the Köppen climate classification){{sfn|Peel|Finlayson|McMahon|2007|p=1639}} that is typical of southern parts of the Upper Midwest; it is situated in USDA plant hardiness zone 5a.{{cite web |title=Normals, Means, and Extremes for Minneapolis/Saint Paul |date=1971–2000 |url=http://climate.umn.edu/pdf/normals_means_and_extremes/2005_Annual_LCD_MSP_page_3.pdf |access-date=December 7, 2020 |publisher=US National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720065506/http://climate.umn.edu/pdf/normals_means_and_extremes/2005_Annual_LCD_MSP_page_3.pdf |archive-date=July 20, 2010 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |author1=Pioneer Press staff |title=USDA: Milder winters mean some changes in plant hardiness zones |url=http://www.twincities.com/2012/01/24/usda-milder-winters-mean-some-changes-in-plant-hardiness-zones/ |access-date=December 7, 2020 |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |publisher=MediaNews Group |date=January 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160721202402/http://www.twincities.com/2012/01/24/usda-milder-winters-mean-some-changes-in-plant-hardiness-zones/ |archive-date=July 21, 2016}}{{cite web |url=https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ |title=USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map |date=2023 |publisher=Agricultural Research Service |access-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704214427/https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/phzmweb/interactivemap.aspx |url-status=live}} The Minneapolis area experiences a full range of precipitation and related weather events, including snow, sleet, ice, rain, thunderstorms, and fog. The highest recorded temperature is {{convert|108|°F}} in July 1936 while the lowest is {{convert|-41|°F}} in January 1888.{{cite web |last=Fisk |first=Charles |url=http://www.climatestations.com/minneapolis/ |title=Graphical Climatology of Minneapolis-Saint Paul Area Temperatures, Precipitation, and Snowfall |work=ClimateStations.com |date=February 11, 2011 |access-date=February 18, 2011 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420081545/https://www.climatestations.com/minneapolis/ |url-status=live}} The snowiest winter on record was 1983–1984, when {{convert|98.6|in|cm|abbr=on|sp=us}} of snow fell. The least-snowy winter was 1930–1931, when {{convert|14.2|in|cm}} fell.{{cite web |url=http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/historical/acis_stn_data_monthly_table.html?sid=mspthr&sname=Twin%20Cities%20Area&sdate=1884-07-01&edate=por&element=snow&span=season&counts=no |title=Twin Cities Area total monthly and seasonal snowfall in inches [1883–2016] |publisher=Minnesota Department of Natural Resources |access-date=September 9, 2016 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505060637/https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/historical/acis_stn_data_monthly_table.html?counts=no&edate=por&element=snow&sdate=1884-07-01&sid=mspthr&sname=Twin%20Cities%20Area&span=season |url-status=live}} According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the annual average for sunshine duration is 58 percent.{{cite web |title=Ranking of Cities Based on % Annual Possible Sunshine |date=2004 |url=http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt |publisher=NOAA: US National Climatic Data Center |access-date=January 1, 2015 |archive-date=May 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522235037/https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ccd-data/pctposrank.txt |url-status=live}}

{{Main|Demographics of Minneapolis}}

{{US Census population

|1860= 5809

|1870= 13066

|1880= 46887

|1890= 164738

|1900= 202718

|1910= 301408

|1920= 380582

|1930= 464356

|1940= 492370

|1950= 521718

|1960= 482872

|1970= 434400

|1980= 370951

|1990= 368383

|2000= 382618

|2010= 382578

|2020= 429954

|estyear=2023

|estimate=425115

|estref=

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The Minneapolis area was originally occupied by Dakota bands, particularly the Mdewakanton, until European Americans moved westward.{{cite web |publisher=Hennepin County Library |date=2001 |title=A History of Minneapolis: Mdewakanton Band of the Dakota Nation |url=http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409042030/http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=1 |archive-date=April 9, 2012 |access-date=March 12, 2023}} In the 1840s,{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=48}} new settlers arrived from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, while French-Canadians came around the same time.{{Sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=203}}{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=217}} Farmers from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania followed in a secondary migration. Settlers from New England had an outsized influence on civic life.{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=214}}

Mexican migrant workers began coming to Minnesota as early as 1860, although few stayed year-round.{{cite news |url=http://articles.citypages.com/2003-10-01/news/living-in-america/ |title=Living in America |first=G.R. Jr. |last=Anderson |work=City Pages |date=October 1, 2003 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019205409/http://www.citypages.com/content/printVersion/14289/ |archive-date=October 19, 2012}} Latinos eventually settled in several neighborhoods in Minneapolis, including Phillips, Whittier, Longfellow and Northeast.{{sfn|HACER|1998|p=19}} Before the turn of the 21st century, Latinos were the state's largest and fastest-growing immigrant group.{{sfn|League of Women Voters|2002|p=7}}

Immigrants from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark found common ground with the Republican and Protestant belief systems of the New England migrants who preceded them.{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|pp=224–225}}{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|pp=220–222, 224}} Irish, Scots, and English immigrants arrived after the Civil War;{{sfn|The Minneapolis '76 Bicentennial Commission|1976|p=18}} Germans{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|p=239}} and Jews from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Russia, followed.{{cite web |last=Nathanson |first=Iric |title=Jews in Minnesota |publisher=Jewish Community Relations Council |url=http://www.minndakjcrc.org/Docs/Jews%20of%20Minnesota%20by%20Iric%20Nathanson.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061228224800/http://www.minndakjcrc.org/Docs/Jews%20of%20Minnesota%20by%20Iric%20Nathanson.pdf |archive-date=December 28, 2006 |access-date=April 14, 2007}} Minneapolis welcomed Italians and Greeks in the 1890s and 1900s,{{sfn|Vecoli|1981|p=450}}{{sfn|Saloutos|1981|pp=472, 474}} and Slovak and Czech immigrants settled in the Bohemian Flats area on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Ukrainians arrived after 1900,{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|pp=244–247}} and Central European migrants made their homes in the Northeast neighborhood.{{sfn|Stipanovich|1982|pp=48, 241}}

Chinese began immigration in the 1870s and Chinese businesses centered on the Gateway District and Glenwood Avenue.{{sfn|Mason|1981a|pp=531, 533–534}} Westminster Presbyterian Church gave language classes and support for Chinese Americans in Minneapolis, many of whom had fled discrimination in western states.{{sfn|Mason|1981a|p=540}} Japanese Americans, many relocated from San Francisco, worked at Camp Savage, a secret military Japanese-language school that trained interpreters and translators.{{sfn|Albert|1981|p=561|loc="...Minneapolis received by far the greater share (see Table 30.2). Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, the greatest magnets for wives, relatives, and friends of those stationed there, were more accessible from Minneapolis than from St. Paul"}} Following World War II, some Japanese and Japanese Americans remained in Minneapolis, and by 1970, they numbered nearly 2,000, forming part of the state's largest Asian American community.{{sfn|Albert|1981|p=558}} In the 1950s, the US government relocated Native Americans to cities like Minneapolis, attempting to dismantle Indian reservations.{{cite web |quote=Other cities like Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Oakland, Cleveland, and Minneapolis would later be added in an ever-changing line-up of relocation cities. |url=https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country |title=Uprooted: The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country |last1=Nesterak |first1=Max |access-date=February 7, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |work=American Public Media |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207214756/https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/11/01/uprooted-the-1950s-plan-to-erase-indian-country |url-status=live |date=November 1, 2019}} Around 1970, Koreans arrived,{{sfn|Mason|1981c|p=572}} and the first Filipinos came to attend the University of Minnesota.{{sfn|Mason|1981b|p=546}} Vietnamese, Hmong (some from Thailand), Lao, and Cambodians settled mainly in Saint Paul around 1975, but some built organizations in Minneapolis.{{sfn|Mason|1981d|pp=582, 584, 586, 590}}{{sfn|Mason|1981d|pp=586, 588, 589}} In 1992, 160 Tibetan immigrants came to Minnesota, and many settled in the city's Whittier neighborhood.{{cite web |url=https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/#tibetans |title=Tibetans |access-date=April 2, 2023 |publisher=International Institute of Minnesota |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402194417/https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/asia/tibetans/ |url-status=live}} Burmese immigrants arrived in the early 2000s, with some moving to Greater Minnesota.{{cite news |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/08/13/lured-by-jobs-and-housing-karen-refugees-spread-across-minnesota |title=Lured by jobs and housing, Karen refugees spread across Minnesota |last=Hirsi |first=Ibrahim |date=August 13, 2019 |access-date=April 2, 2023 |work=MPR News |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403174948/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/08/13/lured-by-jobs-and-housing-karen-refugees-spread-across-minnesota |url-status=live}} The population of people from India in Minneapolis increased by 1,000 between 2000 and 2010, making it the largest concentration of Indians living in the state.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/asian-indian-numbers-in-metro-surge/122756984/ |last=Shah |first=Allie |title=Asian Indian numbers in metro surge |date=May 28, 2011 |access-date=April 2, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402192412/https://www.startribune.com/asian-indian-numbers-in-metro-surge/122756984/ |url-status=live}}

The population of Minneapolis grew until 1950 when the census peaked at 521,718—the only time it has exceeded a half million. The population then declined for decades; after World War II, people moved to the suburbs and generally out of the Midwest.{{sfn|Weber|2022|p=113}}

By 1930, Minneapolis had one of the nation's highest literacy rates among Black residents.{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=82}}{{sfn|Spangler|1961|p=[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b538878&seq=98&q1=illiteracy 94]|loc="Minnesota Negroes had the lowest illiteracy rate in the nation during this period" [in the period 1885 to 1920, 3.4 percent]}}{{sfn|Taylor|2002|p=34|loc={{circa|1930}} "In Minneapolis only 1.7% of blacks over 10 years of age were illiterate"}} However, discrimination prevented them from obtaining higher-paying jobs.{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=76}} In 1935, Cecil Newman and the Minneapolis Spokesman led a year-long consumer boycott of four area breweries that refused to hire Blacks.{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=84}} Employment improved during World War II, but housing discrimination persisted.{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=90|loc=footnote 57}} Between 1950 and 1970, the Black population in Minneapolis increased by 436 percent.{{sfn|Taylor|1981|p=84}} After the Rust Belt economy declined in the 1980s, Black migrants were attracted to Minneapolis for its job opportunities, good schools, and safe neighborhoods.{{cite news |title=Moving Up: Part One |last=Biewen |first=John |date=August 19, 1997 |access-date=December 7, 2020 |url=http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199708/19_biewenj_migration/ |work=Minnesota Public Radio |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414123411/http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199708/19_biewenj_migration/ |url-status=live}} In the 1990s, immigrants from the Horn of Africa began to arrive,{{sfn|Maruggi|Gerten|2013}} from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and particularly Somalia.{{cite web |title=A History of Minneapolis: 20th Century Growth and Diversity |publisher=Hennepin County Library |date=2001 |url=http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421143305/http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=26 |archive-date=April 21, 2012 |access-date=December 7, 2020}} Immigration from Somalia slowed significantly following a 2017 national executive order.{{sfn|Weber|2022|loc=p. 159: "President Donald Trump's executive order in 2017 banned new immigration from Somalia and several other majority-Muslim nations. Just forty-eight people came to Minnesota from Somalia in 2018, down from more than fourteen hundred in 2016," and further reading p. 187}} As of 2022, about 3,000 Ethiopians and 20,000 Somalis reside in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancestry&g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B04004 |title=People Reporting Single Ancestry |date=2022 |access-date=March 25, 2024 |publisher=US Census Bureau |work=American Community Survey |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512163401/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=ancestry&g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDT5Y2019.B04004 |url-status=live}}

The Williams Institute reported that the Twin Cities had an estimated 4.2-percent LGBT adult population in 2020.{{cite web |url=https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/MSA-LGBT-Ranking-Mar-2021.pdf |title=LGBT Adults in Large US Metropolitan Areas |access-date=February 8, 2023 |date=December 2020 |work=Williams Institute |publisher=University of California, Los Angeles School of Law |first1=Kerith J. |last1=Conron |first2=Winston |last2=Luhur |first3=Shoshana K. |last3=Goldberg |archive-date=December 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230005310/https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/MSA-LGBT-Ranking-Mar-2021.pdf |url-status=live}} In 2023, the Human Rights Campaign gave Minneapolis 94 points out of 100 on the Municipal Equality Index of support for the LGBTQ+ population.{{cite web |url=https://www.hrc.org/resources/mei-2023-see-your-cities-scores |date=2023 |access-date=May 15, 2024 |title=MEI 2023: See Your Cities' Scores |publisher=Human Rights Campaign |archive-date=May 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515211140/https://www.hrc.org/resources/mei-2023-see-your-cities-scores |url-status=live}} Twin Cities Pride is held every June.{{cite web|url=https://www.minneapolis.org/things-to-do/itineraries/52-must-sees/twin-cities-pride/|title=Twin Cities Pride|access-date=January 31, 2025|publisher=Meet Minneapolis}}

Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and the 46th-largest city in the United States by population as of 2023.{{cite web |title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 50,000 or More, Ranked by July 1, 2022 Population |date=July 1, 2022 |access-date=March 17, 2024 |url=https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2022/cities/totals/SUB-IP-EST2022-ANNRNK.xlsx |publisher=US Census Bureau |archive-date=July 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717001424/https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2022/cities/totals/SUB-IP-EST2022-ANNRNK.xlsx |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Community profile |url=https://stories.opengov.com/minneapolismn/published/cxcd-UhRjRb |access-date=October 12, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |via=OpenGov |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018031645/https://stories.opengov.com/minneapolismn/published/cxcd-UhRjRb |url-status=live}} According to the 2020 US Census, Minneapolis had a population of 429,954.{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |title=Race |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216182839/https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1 |url-status=live}} Of this population, 44,513 (10.4 percent) identified as Hispanic or Latinos.{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |title=Ethnicity |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216182840/https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2 |url-status=live}} Of those not Hispanic or Latino, 249,581 persons (58.0 percent) were White alone (62.7 percent White alone or in combination), 81,088 (18.9 percent) were Black or African American alone (21.3 percent Black alone or in combination), 24,929 (5.8 percent) were Asian alone, 7,433 (1.2 percent) were American Indian and Alaska Native alone, 25,387 (0.6 percent) some other race alone, and 34,463 (5.2 percent) were multiracial.

The most common ancestries in Minneapolis according to the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) were German (22.9 percent), Irish (10.8 percent), Norwegian (8.9 percent), Subsaharan African (6.7 percent), and Swedish (6.1 percent).{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |work=American Community Survey |title=Selected social characteristics in the United States |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDP1Y2021.DP02 |date=2021 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216182838/https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDP1Y2021.DP02 |url-status=live}} Among those five years and older, 81.2 percent spoke only English at home, while 7.1 percent spoke Spanish and 11.7 percent spoke other languages, including large numbers of Somali and Hmong speakers. About 13.7 percent of the population was born abroad, with 53.2 percent of them being naturalized US citizens. Most immigrants arrived from Africa (40.6 percent), Latin America (25.2 percent), and Asia (24.6 percent), with 34.6 percent of all foreign-born residents having arrived in 2010 or earlier.

Comparable to the US average of $70,784 in 2021,{{cite report |title=Income in the United States: 2021 |date=September 13, 2022 |first1=Jessica |last1=Semega |first2=Melissa |last2=Kollar |url=https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html |publisher=US Census Bureau |access-date=September 22, 2024 |archive-date=September 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923162137/https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html |url-status=live}} the ACS reported that the 2021 median household income in Minneapolis was $69,397 {{USDCY|69397|2021}},{{Inflation/fn|US}} It was $97,670 for families, $123,693 for married couples, and $54,083 for non-family households.{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |title=Minneapolis data viewer |url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Minneapolis_city,_Minnesota?g=1600000US2743000 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=February 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228005548/https://data.census.gov/profile/Minneapolis_city,_Minnesota?g=1600000US2743000 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |work=American Community Survey |title=Income in the past 12 months |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1901 |date=2021 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130204458/https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSST1Y2021.S1901 |url-status=live}} In 2023, the median Minneapolis rent was $1,529, compared to the national median of $1,723.{{cite press release |title=Realtor.com® April Rental Report: National Rents Drop Again, But Three Midwest Markets Surge to Record Highs |url=https://mediaroom.realtor.com/2024-05-22-Realtor-com-R-April-Rental-Report-National-Rents-Drop-Again,-But-Three-Midwest-Markets-Surge-to-Record-Highs |date=May 22, 2024 |access-date=October 3, 2024 |publisher=National Association of Realtors and Move, Inc. |archive-date=July 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717105221/https://mediaroom.realtor.com/2024-05-22-Realtor-com-R-April-Rental-Report-National-Rents-Drop-Again,-But-Three-Midwest-Markets-Surge-to-Record-Highs |url-status=live}} Over 92 percent of housing units in Minneapolis were occupied. Housing units in the city built in 1939 or earlier comprised 43.7 percent.{{cite web |publisher=US Census Bureau |work=American Community Survey |title=Selected housing characteristics |url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDP1Y2021.DP04 |access-date=February 16, 2023 |date=2021 |archive-date=February 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216182837/https://data.census.gov/table?g=1600000US2743000&tid=ACSDP1Y2021.DP04 |url-status=live}} Almost 17 percent of residents lived in poverty in 2023, compared to the US average of 11.1 percent.{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/minneapoliscityminnesota,US/IPE120223 |title=QuickFacts: Minneapolis city, Minnesota; United States |access-date=September 23, 2024 |publisher=US Census Bureau |archive-date=September 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925184842/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/minneapoliscityminnesota,US/IPE120223 |url-status=live}} As of 2022, 90.8 percent of residents age 25 years or older had earned a high school degree compared to 89.1 percent nationally, and 53.5 percent had a bachelor's degree or higher compared to the 34.3 percent US national average. US veterans made up 2.8 percent of the population compared to the national average of 5 percent in 2023.

In Minneapolis in 2020, Blacks owned homes at a rate one-third that of White families. Statewide by 2022, the gap between White and Black home ownership declined from 51.5 percent to 48 percent. Statewide, alongside this small improvement was a sharp increase in the Black-to-White comparative number of deaths of despair (e.g., alcohol, drugs, and suicide). The Minneapolis income gap in 2018 was one of the largest in the country, with Black families earning about 44 percent of what White families earned annually.{{cite news |title=Racial inequality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the nation |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/30/minneapolis-racial-inequality/ |author=Ingraham, Christopher |date=May 30, 2020 |access-date=September 30, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328051150/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/30/minneapolis-racial-inequality/ |url-status=live}} Statewide in 2022 using inflation-adjusted dollars, the median income for a Black family was $34,377 less than a White family's median income, an improvement of $7,000 since 2019.{{cite news |url=https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/05/23/four-years-after-george-floyd-minnesotas-racial-gaps-remain-stark/ |title=Four years after George Floyd, Minnesota's racial gaps remain stark |last=Ingraham |first=Christopher |date=May 23, 2024 |access-date=September 1, 2024 |work=Minnesota Reformer |archive-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240831202750/https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/05/23/four-years-after-george-floyd-minnesotas-racial-gaps-remain-stark/ |url-status=live}}

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|+ Race and ethnicity of Minneapolis, 1990–2020

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! rowspan="3"|Race/ethnicity

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! colspan="2|2020{{Cite web |title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Minneapolis, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P2?q=p2&g=160XX00US2743000 |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=United States Census Bureau |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804143749/https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2020.P2?q=p2&g=160XX00US2743000 |url-status=live}}

! colspan="2|2010{{Cite web |title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Minneapolis, Minnesota |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2010.P2?q=p2&g=160XX00US2743000 |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=United States Census Bureau |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804143749/https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALPL2010.P2?q=p2&g=160XX00US2743000 |url-status=live}}

! colspan="2|2000{{Cite web |title=Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000. Summary File 4 Demographic Profile, Table DP1 |url=https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDPSF42000.DP1?q=race%20in%20Minneapolis%20in%202000&tp=true |url-status=live |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=U.S. Census Bureau |archive-date=August 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817170820/https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDPSF42000.DP1?q=race%20in%20Minneapolis%20in%202000&tp=true}}

! colspan="2|1990{{cite web |date=October 6, 2022 |title=1990 Census of Population: General Population Characteristics Minnesota |url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-25.pdf |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=U.S. Census Bureau |page=57 |archive-date=August 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240817170808/https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-25.pdf |url-status=live}}

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! %

! Number

! %

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! %

! Number

! %

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| style="text-align:left;"| White alone

|| 249,581 || {{Percentage | 249581 | 429954 | 1 |pad=yes}}

|| 230,650 || {{Percentage | 230650 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 249,466 || {{Percentage | 249466 | 382452 | 1 }}

|| 288,967 || {{Percentage | 288967 | 368383 | 1 }}

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| style="text-align:left;"| Black alone

|| 81,088 || {{Percentage | 81088 | 429954| 1 }}

|| 69,971 || {{Percentage | 69971 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 67,262 || {{Percentage | 67262 | 382452 | 1 }}

|| 47,948 || {{Percentage | 47948 | 368383 | 1 |pad=yes}}

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| style="text-align:left;"| Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|| 44,513 || {{Percentage | 44513 | 429954 | 1 }}

|| 40,073 || {{Percentage | 40073 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 29,085 || {{Percentage | 29085 | 382452 | 1 }}

|| 7,900 || {{Percentage | 7900 | 368383 | 1 }}

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| style="text-align:left;"| Asian alone

|| 24,743 || {{Percentage | 24743 | 429954 | 1 }}

|| 21,399 || {{Percentage | 21399 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 23,912 || {{Percentage | 23912 | 382452 | 1 }}

|| 15,550 || {{Percentage | 15550 | 368383 | 1 }}

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| style="text-align:left;"| American Indian and Alaska Native alone

|| 5,184 || {{Percentage | 5184 | 429954 | 1 }}

|| 6,351 || {{Percentage | 6351 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 7,576 || {{Percentage | 7576 | 382452 | 1 |pad=yes}}

|| 12,335 || {{Percentage | 12335 | 368383 | 1 }}

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| style="text-align:left;"| Other race alone

|| 2,136 || {{Percentage | 2136 | 429954 | 1 }}

|| 962 || {{Percentage | 962 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| — || —

|| 3,410 || {{Percentage | 3410 | 368383 | 1 }}

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| style="text-align:left;"| Two or more races

|| 22,538 || {{Percentage | 22538 | 429954 | 1 }}

|| 13,004 || {{Percentage | 13004 | 382578 | 1 }}

|| 17,771 || {{Percentage | 17771 | 382452 | 1 |pad=yes}} || — || —

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! Total || style="text-align:right;"|429,954 || style="text-align:right;"|100% || style="text-align:right;"|382,578 || style="text-align:right;"|100% || style="text-align:right;"|382,452 || style="text-align:right;"|100% || style="text-align:right;"|368,383 || style="text-align:right;"|100%

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Before 1910, when a developer wrote the first restrictive covenant based on race and ethnicity into a Minneapolis deed,{{sfn|Walker|Ramer|Derickson|Keeler|2023|p=6|loc="The first racial covenant in Minneapolis was recorded by Edmund Walton in 1910..."}} the city was relatively unsegregated with a Black population of less than one percent.{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2019/02/with-covenants-racism-was-written-into-minneapolis-housing-the-scars-are-still-visible/ |title=With covenants, racism was written into Minneapolis housing. The scars are still visible |last=Kaul |first=Greta |date=February 22, 2019 |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=March 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306005609/https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2019/02/with-covenants-racism-was-written-into-minneapolis-housing-the-scars-are-still-visible/ |url-status=live}} Realtors adopted the practice, thousands of times preventing non-Whites from owning or leasing properties;{{sfn|Delegard|Ehrman-Solberg|2017|pp=73–74|loc="...the Seven Oaks Corporation, a real estate developer that inserted this same language into thousands of deeds across the city."}} this practice continued for four decades until the city became more and more racially divided.{{sfn|Walker|Ramer|Derickson|Keeler|2023|p=5|loc="...the Mapping Prejudice team showed that, prior to the introduction of covenants in 1910, the residences of people of color were dispersed throughout the city, yet as developers added thousands of racial covenants to deeds in Minneapolis until 1955, the city's neighborhoods became increasingly racially segregated"}} Though such language was prohibited by state law in 1953 and by the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968,{{sfn|Delegard|Ehrman-Solberg|2017|p=75}} restrictive covenants against minorities remained in many Minneapolis deeds as of the 2020s. In 2021, the city gave residents a means to discharge them.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-starts-program-to-disavow-racial-covenants/600029949/ |date=March 3, 2021 |author=Navratil, Liz |title=Minneapolis starts program to disavow racial covenants |work=Star Tribune |access-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817055442/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-starts-program-to-disavow-racial-covenants/600029949/ |url-status=live}}

Minneapolis has a history of structural racism{{cite magazine |title=George Floyd's Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis |url=https://time.com/5844030/george-floyd-minneapolis-history/ |author=Waxman, Olivia B. |date=June 2, 2020 |magazine=Time |quote=Delegard told Time, 'Structural racism is really baked into the geography of this city and as a result it really permeates every institution in this city.' |access-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117002036/https://time.com/5844030/george-floyd-minneapolis-history/ |url-status=live |postscript=,}} and has racial disparities in nearly every aspect of society.{{cite web |quote=...in 2010, Minneapolis led the nation in having the widest unemployment disparity between African-American and white residents. This remains true in 2018. And disparities also exist in nearly every other measurable social aspect, including of economic, housing, safety and health outcomes, between people of color and indigenous people compared with white people." and "In Minneapolis, 83 percent of white non-Hispanics have more than a high school education, compared with 47 percent of black people and 45 percent of American Indians. Only 32 percent of Hispanics have more than a high school education. |url=https://minneapolis2040.com/goals/eliminate-disparities/ |title=Goals: 1. Eliminate disparities |work=Department of Community Planning & Economic Development |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117184308/https://minneapolis2040.com/goals/eliminate-disparities/ |url-status=live}} As White settlers displaced the Indigenous population during the 19th century, they claimed the city's land,{{cite news |title=How did Minn. become one of the most racially inequitable states? |url=https://www.startribune.com/how-did-minnesota-become-one-of-the-most-racially-inequitable-states/547537761/ |first1=Randy |last1=Furst |first2=MaryJo |last2=Webster |date=September 6, 2019 |access-date=May 27, 2021 |work=Star Tribune |quote=The privileges of whites go back much further ... to when American Indians were forced off their land in the 1860s. |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602213424/https://www.startribune.com/how-did-minnesota-become-one-of-the-most-racially-inequitable-states/547537761/ |url-status=live}} and Kirsten Delegard of Mapping Prejudice explains that today's disparities evolved from control of the land. Discrimination increased when flour milling moved to the East Coast and the economy declined.{{sfn|Weber|2022|pp=84, 88}}

The foundation laid by racial covenants on residential segregation, property value, homeownership, wealth, housing security, access to green spaces, and health equity shapes the lives of people in the 21st century.{{cite web |title=What is a Covenant: How racial covenants impact us today |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=May 28, 2023 |url=https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/racial-covenants/what-is-a-covenant |archive-date=May 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528221509/https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/racial-covenants/what-is-a-covenant |url-status=live}} The city wrote in a decennial plan that racially discriminatory federal housing policies starting in the 1930s "prevented access to mortgages in areas with Jews, African-Americans and other minorities" and "left a lasting effect on the physical characteristics of the city and the financial well-being of its residents".{{cite web |url=https://minneapolis2040.com/goals/eliminate-disparities/ |title=Goals: 1. Eliminate disparities |work=Department of Community Planning & Economic Development |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=June 22, 2023 |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117184308/https://minneapolis2040.com/goals/eliminate-disparities/ |url-status=live}}

Discussing a Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis report on how systemic racism compromises education in Minnesota,Factors outlined include racial gaps in opportunity, limited pre-school subsidy programs, educator bias, differences in families' and schools' economic resources, less-experienced teachers, and completion rate gaps. {{cite report |quote=This article highlights evidence of how systemic racism undermines the education system in Minnesota. |title=Minnesota's education system shows persistent opportunity gaps by race |url=https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/minnesotas-education-system-shows-persistent-opportunity-gaps-by-race |date=January 11, 2021 |access-date=June 18, 2023 |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |first1=Rob |last1=Grunewald |first2=Ben |last2=Horowitz |first3=Kim-Eng |last3=Ky |first4=Alene |last4=Tchourumoff |archive-date=June 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618150432/https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2021/minnesotas-education-system-shows-persistent-opportunity-gaps-by-race |url-status=live}} Professor Keith Mayes says, "So the housing disparities created the educational disparities that we still live with today."{{cite news |url=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/a-look-at-the-history-of-racial-covenants-and-housing-discrimination-in-minneapolis/89-f1cacace-6655-42b5-b0a7-d5a6651d63b4 |title=A look at the history of racial covenants and housing discrimination in Minneapolis |author=Wigdahl, Heidi |date=June 11, 2020 |access-date=April 24, 2021 |work=KARE-TV News |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215133903/https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyd/a-look-at-the-history-of-racial-covenants-and-housing-discrimination-in-minneapolis/89-f1cacace-6655-42b5-b0a7-d5a6651d63b4 |url-status=live}} Professor Samuel Myers Jr. says of redlining, "Policing policies evolved that substituted explicit racial profiling with scientific management of racially disparate arrests. {{nowrap|... racially}} discriminatory policies became institutionalized and 'baked in' to the fabric of Minnesota life."{{cite web |title=The Minnesota Paradox |url=https://www.hhh.umn.edu/research-centers/roy-wilkins-center-human-relations-and-social-justice/minnesota-paradox |last=Myers |first=Samuel L. Jr. |access-date=May 29, 2023 |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529040243/https://www.hhh.umn.edu/research-centers/roy-wilkins-center-human-relations-and-social-justice/minnesota-paradox |url-status=live}}{{efn|Separately, Myers describes how the Minneapolis police department's adoption of CODEFOR in 1998 increased policing in areas of Minneapolis that were disproportionately non-White, with dual results: "Minority residents are afforded improved safety and law enforcement services; minority offenders unsurprisingly may be disproportionately apprehended for relatively minor transgressions in order to achieve the higher levels of safety."{{sfn|Myers|2002}}}} Government efforts to address these disparities included zoning changes passed in the 2040 plan,{{cite news |title=Minneapolis Has A Bold Plan To Tackle Racial Inequity. Now It Has To Follow Through |last=Sommer |first=Laura |date=June 18, 2020 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/877460056/minneapolis-has-a-bold-plan-to-tackle-racial-inequity-now-it-has-to-follow-throu |archive-date=May 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518170735/https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/877460056/minneapolis-has-a-bold-plan-to-tackle-racial-inequity-now-it-has-to-follow-throu |url-status=live}} and declaring racism a public health emergency in 2020.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis declares racism a public health emergency |last=McNamara |first=Audrey |date=July 17, 2020 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-racism-public-health-emergency/ |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Interactive |archive-date=May 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518173123/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-racism-public-health-emergency/ |url-status=live}}

{{further|Religion in Minnesota}}File:Christ Church Lutheran Highsmith.jpg is one of the city's four National Historic Landmarks.{{cite web |title=National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota |url=https://mn.gov/admin/shpo/registration/nhl/ |publisher=Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office |access-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210185103/https://mn.gov/admin/shpo/registration/nhl/ |url-status=live}}]]

Twin Cities residents are 70 percent Christian according to a Pew Research Center religious survey in 2014.{{cite web |title=Adults in the Minneapolis metro area |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/minneapolisst-paul-metro-area/ |access-date=May 9, 2023 |date=2014 |publisher=Pew Research Center |archive-date=May 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509200058/https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/metro-area/minneapolisst-paul-metro-area/ |url-status=live}} Settlers who arrived in Minneapolis from New England were for the most part Protestants, Quakers, and Universalists.{{cite web |title=A History of Minneapolis: Religion |publisher=Hennepin County Library |url=http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=29 |access-date=January 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423193057/http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/specialcollections/mplshistory/?id=29 |archive-date=April 23, 2012}} The oldest continuously used church, Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, was built in 1856 by Universalists and soon afterward was acquired by a French Catholic congregation.{{sfn|Millett|2007|p=127}} St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral was founded in 1887;{{cite web |publisher=St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral |title=About St. Mary's |date=2006 |url=http://www.stmarysoca.org/about.html |access-date=March 19, 2023 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930000609/http://www.stmarysoca.org/about.html |url-status=live}} it opened a missionary school and in 1905 created a Russian Orthodox seminary.{{cite web |url=https://www.svots.edu/about/our-history |title=Our History: Beginnings |access-date=November 28, 2023 |publisher=Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary |archive-date=December 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201021014/https://www.svots.edu/about/our-history |url-status=live}} Edwin Hawley Hewitt designed St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral and Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, both of which are located south of downtown.{{sfn|Millett|2007|p=84}} The nearby Basilica of Saint Mary, the first basilica in the US and co-cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, was named by Pope Pius XI in 1926. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was headquartered in Minneapolis from the 1950s until 2001.{{cite web |url=https://billygraham.org/news/media-resources/electronic-press-kit/bgea-history/timeline-of-historic-events/ |title=Timeline of Historic Events |access-date=March 19, 2023 |publisher=Billy Graham Evangelistic Association |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414151315/https://billygraham.org/news/media-resources/electronic-press-kit/bgea-history/timeline-of-historic-events/ |url-status=live}} Christ Church Lutheran in the Longfellow neighborhood was the final work in the career of Eliel Saarinen, and it has an education building designed by his son Eero.{{sfn|Millett|2007|pp=159–160|loc="Christ Church was Saarinen's last building" and "the addition was among Eero's last commissions"}}

Aligning with a national trend, the metro area's next largest group after Christians is the 23-percent non-religious population. At the same time, more than 50 denominations and religions are present in Minneapolis, representing most of the world's religions. Temple Israel was built in 1928 by the city's first Jewish congregation, Shaarai Tov, which formed in 1878. By 1959, a Temple of Islam was located in north Minneapolis.{{cite report |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/government/View-the-Minneapolis-in-the-Modern-Era-1930-1975-Historic-Context-Study-wcmsp-227161.pdf |date=June 2020 |first1=Tamara |last1=Halvorsen Ludt |first2=Laurel |last2=Fritz |first3=Lauren |last3=Anderson |access-date=July 14, 2022 |pages=7.24, 7.27 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |work=Community Planning and Economic Development |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922205430/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/government/View-the-Minneapolis-in-the-Modern-Era-1930-1975-Historic-Context-Study-wcmsp-227161.pdf |title=Minneapolis in the Modern Era: 1930–1975}} In 1971, a reported 150 persons attended classes at a Hindu temple near the University of Minnesota. In 1972, the Twin Cities' first Shi'a Muslim family resettled from Uganda.{{sfn|Barlow|Silk|2004|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=eTpnyr2Z0moC&pg=PA139 139]}} Somalis who live in Minneapolis are primarily Sunni Muslim.{{cite web |date=January 2017 |publisher=International Institute of Minnesota |url=https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/#somalis |title=Somalis |access-date=August 1, 2024 |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817105056/https://iimn.org/publication/finding-common-ground/minnesotas-refugees/africa/somalis/ |url-status=live}} In 2022, Minneapolis amended its noise ordinance to allow broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer five times per day.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis allows Islamic call to prayer five times per day |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/14/minneapolis-allows-islamic-call-to-prayer-five-times-per-day |date=April 14, 2023 |access-date=May 8, 2023 |work=Al Jazeera |archive-date=May 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508224122/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/14/minneapolis-allows-islamic-call-to-prayer-five-times-per-day |url-status=live}} The city has about seven Buddhist centers and meditation centers.{{cite news |title=Guide to Local Meditation Centers |last=Hagen |first=Nina |date=May 16, 2016 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |url=https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/travel-recreation/guide-to-local-meditation-centers/ |work=Minnesota Monthly |publisher=Greenspring Media |archive-date=March 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319215525/https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/travel-recreation/guide-to-local-meditation-centers/ |url-status=live}}

{{further|Economy of Minnesota}}

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|+ Largest downtown
Minneapolis employers
2023{{cite web |title=Target loses top spot as largest downtown Minneapolis employer |first1=Keith |last1=Schubert |first2=J.D. |last2=Duggan |date=February 7, 2024 |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/02/07/target-corp-no-longer-downtown-largest-employer.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |publisher=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215133903/https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/02/07/target-corp-no-longer-downtown-largest-employer.html |url-status=live}}

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| 1 || Hennepin Healthcare

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| 2 || Target Corporation

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| 3 || Hennepin County

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| 4 || Wells Fargo

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| 5 || Ameriprise Financial

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| 6 || U.S. Bancorp

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| 7 || Xcel Energy

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| 8 || City of Minneapolis

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| 9 || SPS Commerce

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| 10 || RBC Wealth Management

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|+ Largest Minneapolis companies by revenue 2023{{Cite web |url=https://fortune.com/ranking/fortune500/2023/search/?hqcity=Minneapolis |title=Fortune 500 Companies |date=2023 |work=Fortune |access-date=August 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813231310/https://fortune.com/ranking/fortune500/2023/search/?hqcity=Minneapolis |url-status=live}}

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|| Minneapolis
rank || style="background:#ccc;"|Corporation || style="background:#ccc;"|US rank || style="background:#ccc;"|Revenue
(in millions)

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| 1 || Target Corporation || 33 || $109,120

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| 2 || U.S. Bancorp || 149 || $27,401

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| 3 || Xcel Energy || 271 || $15,310

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| 4 || Ameriprise Financial || 289 || $14,347

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| 5 || Thrivent || 412 || $9,347

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Early in the city's history, millers were required to pay for wheat with cash during the growing season and then to store the wheat until it was needed for flour.{{sfn|Lass|2000|p=164}} The Minneapolis Grain Exchange was founded in 1881; located near the riverfront, it is the only exchange as of 2023 for hard red spring wheat futures.{{cite web |title=Trading of Wheat – Minneapolis Grain Exchange |url=https://www.ndwheat.com/buyers/marketinformation/ |access-date=January 14, 2023 |publisher=North Dakota Wheat Commission |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114174445/https://www.ndwheat.com/buyers/marketinformation/ |url-status=live}}

Along with cash requirements for the milling industry, the large amounts of capital that lumbering had accumulated stimulated the local banking industry and made Minneapolis a major financial center.{{sfn|Lass|2000|pp= 164, 181}} The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis serves Minnesota, Montana, North and South Dakota, and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan; it has the smallest population of the twelve districts in the Federal Reserve System, and it has one branch in Helena, Montana.{{sfn|Misa|2013|p=200}}

Minneapolis area employment is primarily in trade, transportation, utilities, education, health services, and professional and business services. Smaller numbers of residents are employed in government, manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, and financial activities.{{cite web |url=https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/summary/blssummary_minneapolis.pdf |date=August 5, 2024 |access-date=August 25, 2024 |publisher=US Bureau of Labor Statistics |title=Minneapolis Area Economic Summary |archive-date=September 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220930180857/https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/summary/blssummary_minneapolis.pdf |url-status=live}}

In 2024, the Twin Cities metropolitan area had the eighth-highest concentration of major corporate headquarters in the US.{{cite web |url=https://www.realpage.com/analytics/fortune-500-companies-2024/ |title=Markets with the Most Fortune 500 Headquarters |author=Wheeler, Charlotte |date=June 14, 2024 |access-date=December 31, 2024 |publisher=RealPage |archive-date=July 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240712230551/https://www.realpage.com/analytics/fortune-500-companies-2024/ |url-status=live }} Five Fortune 500 corporations were headquartered within the city limits of Minneapolis: Target Corporation, U.S. Bancorp, Xcel Energy, Ameriprise Financial, and Thrivent. The metro area's gross domestic product was $323.9 billion in 2022 {{USDCY|323900000000|2022}}.{{Inflation/fn|US}}

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{{Main|Arts in Minneapolis}}

File:Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg admission is free except for special exhibitions.{{cite web |url=https://new.artsmia.org/visit |title=Plan Your Visit |publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Art |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414193419/https://new.artsmia.org/visit |url-status=live}}]]

During the Gilded Age, the Walker Art Center began as a private art collection in the home of lumberman T. B. Walker, who extended free admission to the public.{{sfn|Whitmore|2004|loc=Whitmore cites the 1903 New York Herald which calls T. B. Walker "the Pine King of the West" and says "...the gallery is open to the public six days in the week, and all who ring his bell and ask to see the old masters receive not only permission from the white-aproned maid who answers the ring, but also a catalogue as well."}} Around 1940, the center's focus shifted to modern and contemporary art.{{cite web |url=https://walkerart.org/about/mission-history/ |title=About: Walker Art Center History |publisher=Walker Art Center |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=November 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111130141416/http://info.walkerart.org/about/history.wac |url-status=live}} In partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, the Walker operates the adjacent Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, which has about forty sculptures on view year-round.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/gardens__bird_sanctuaries/minneapolis_sculpture_garden/ |title=Minneapolis Sculpture Garden |access-date=March 21, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=March 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306153418/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/gardens__bird_sanctuaries/minneapolis_sculpture_garden/ |url-status=live}}

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is located in south-central Minneapolis on the {{convert|10|acre|ha|adj=on|sigfig=1}} former homestead of the Morrison family.{{sfn|Hess|1985|p=[https://archive.org/details/theirsplendidleg0000hess/page/22/mode/2up 22]}} McKim, Mead & White designed a vast complex meeting the ambitions of the founders for a cultural center with spaces for sculpture, an art school, and orchestra. One-seventh of their design was built and opened in 1915. Additions by other firms from 1928 to 2006 achieved much of the original scheme.{{cite web |title=Minneapolis Institute of Art |date=July 17, 2018 |url=https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MN-01-053-0058 |access-date=April 14, 2023 |publisher=Society of Architectural Historians |quote=This ambitious plan was not realized... |archive-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414180022/https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MN-01-053-0058 |url-status=live}} Today the collection of more than 90,000 artworks spans six continents and about 5,000 years.{{cite web |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/ |title=Collection |access-date=April 14, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Institute of Art |archive-date=September 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920015453/https://collections.artsmia.org/ |url-status=live}}

Frank Gehry designed Weisman Art Museum, which opened in 1993, for the University of Minnesota.{{cite web |url=http://wam.umn.edu/about/ |title=The Museum |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414204644/http://wam.umn.edu/about/ |url-status=live}} A 2011 addition by Gehry doubled the size of the galleries.{{cite news |last=Kerr |first=Euan |title=Weisman celebrates reopening with its designer in attendance |url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/02/gehry-at-weisman-museum-opening/ |date=October 2, 2011 |work=MPR News |access-date=January 14, 2012 |archive-date=January 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122135926/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/10/02/gehry-at-weisman-museum-opening |url-status=live}} The Museum of Russian Art opened in a restored church in 2005, and it hosts a collection of 20th-century Russian art and special events.{{cite web |title=History: TMORA |url=http://tmora.org/about-us/history/ |publisher=The Museum of Russian Art |date=September 30, 2015 |access-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-date=December 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219005841/http://tmora.org/about-us/history/ |url-status=live}} The Northeast Minneapolis Arts District hosts 400 independent artists and a center at the Northrup-King building, and it presents the Art-A-Whirl open studio tour every May.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecurrent.org/events/20230519-art-a-whirl |title=Art-A-Whirl® Weekend |access-date=May 13, 2023 |work=The Current |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |date=2023 |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603083226/https://www.thecurrent.org/events/20230519-art-a-whirl |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Northeast Minneapolis Named Best Art District |url=http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-art-district/ |work=USA Today |access-date=April 5, 2015 |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421063349/https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-art-district/ |url-status=live}}

{{further|List of theaters in Minnesota}}

File:Guthrie Theater, 2nd Street, Mill District, Minneapolis, MN.jpg originated as an alternative to Broadway.{{sfn|Bly|Schechter|1979|p=33|loc="In 1963, the Tyrone Guthrie Theater was founded in Minneapolis as an alternative to Broadway and its commercialism."}}]]

Minneapolis has hosted theatrical performances since the end of the American Civil War.{{sfn|Blegen|1975|p=503}} Early theaters included Pence Opera House, the Academy of Music, Grand Opera House, Lyceum, and later the Metropolitan Opera House, which opened in 1894.{{sfn|Blegen|1975|pp=503–504}} Fifteen of the fifty-five Twin Cities theater companies counted in 2015 by Peg Guilfoyle had a physical site in Minneapolis. About half the remainder performed in variable spaces throughout the metropolitan area.{{sfn|Guilfoyle|2015|pages=455–484}}

In his social history of American regional theater, Joseph Zeigler calls the Guthrie Theater the "granddaddy" of regional theater.{{sfn|Zeigler|1973|pp=74, 75, 87, 241}} Tyrone Guthrie founded the Guthrie in 1963 with an inventive thrust stage—a collaboration by Guthrie, designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and architect Ralph Rapson{{cite web |title=Project Fact Sheet |access-date=July 24, 2023 |publisher=Guthrie Theater |url=https://www.guthrietheater.org/globalassets/8-footer/b-for-press/for-press/guthrie_factsheet.pdf |archive-date=November 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111030145/https://www.guthrietheater.org/globalassets/8-footer/b-for-press/for-press/guthrie_factsheet.pdf |url-status=live}}—jutting into the seats and surrounded by the audience on three sides. French architect Jean Nouvel designed a new Guthrie that opened in 2006 overlooking the Mississippi River. The design team reproduced the thrust stage with some alterations, and they added a proscenium stage and an experimental stage.{{cite magazine |last=Russell |first=James S. |title=Guthrie Theater: Minneapolis, Minnesota |journal=Architectural Record |publisher=The McGraw-Hill Companies |date=August 2006 |volume=194 |issue=8 |pages=108, 117 |issn=0003-858X |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/archives/backissues/2006-08.pdf |access-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724161153/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/ext/resources/archives/backissues/2006-08.pdf |url-status=live}}

Minneapolis purchased and renovated the Orpheum, Shubert (now the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts), State, and Pantages theaters, vaudeville and film houses on Hennepin Avenue that are now used for concerts, plays,{{cite web |publisher=Hennepin Theatre Trust |access-date=January 14, 2023 |url=https://hennepintheatretrust.org/about-us/history-and-background/ |title=Looking back |date=May 6, 2016 |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114204307/https://hennepintheatretrust.org/about-us/history-and-background/ |url-status=live}} and performing arts.{{cite web |url=https://www.thecowlescenter.org/history-and-mission |title=Mission & History and Who we are: Programs |access-date=January 14, 2023 |work=Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts |publisher=Artspace Projects |archive-date=January 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114204255/https://www.thecowlescenter.org/history-and-mission |url-status=live}} Every August, the Minnesota Fringe Festival hosts performances in venues across town.{{cite web |url=https://www.oprah.com/world/minneapolis-travel-guide-minnesota-fringe-festival/1 |title=O's Minneapolis Travel Guide |last=Blackwood |first=Alisa |access-date=May 19, 2024 |publisher=Harpo Productions |archive-date=May 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240519181032/https://www.oprah.com/world/minneapolis-travel-guide-minnesota-fringe-festival/1 |url-status=live}} The May Day Parade is held in south Minneapolis each May.{{sfn|Kuftinec|2019|pp=3–4}}{{cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Audrey |title=Heart of the Beast returns with puppet fashion show, library and renovated theater |url=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2023/04/14/heart-of-the-beast-minneapolis-returns-puppet-fashion-show |access-date=November 1, 2024 |work=Axios |date=April 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606032737/https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2023/04/14/heart-of-the-beast-minneapolis-returns-puppet-fashion-show |archive-date=June 6, 2023}}

{{further|Music of Minnesota}}

File:Prince at Coachella (cropped).jpg studied at the Minnesota Dance Theatre{{cite news |title=Dancers recall Prince as a hard-working 'darling' in tights and ballet slippers |url=http://www.startribune.com/dancers-recall-prince-as-a-hard-working-darling-in-tights-and-ballet-slippers/378179261/ |date=May 5, 2016 |first=Caroline |last=Palmer |work=Star Tribune |access-date=May 3, 2018 |archive-date=May 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504011637/http://www.startribune.com/dancers-recall-prince-as-a-hard-working-darling-in-tights-and-ballet-slippers/378179261/ |quote=While growing up, Prince had ballet training through an initiative called the Urban Arts Program...Prince took classes with MDT in Dinkytown.}} through the Minneapolis Public Schools.{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2022/02/new-documentary-looks-back-at-minneapolis-1970s-era-experimental-arts-program/ |title=New documentary looks back at Minneapolis' 1970s-era experimental arts program |last=Regan |first=Sheila |date=February 8, 2022 |access-date=April 22, 2023 |work=MinnPost |quote=FITC began as a program offered through the Minneapolis Public Schools, under the umbrella of the Urban Arts Program....(Among the notable alumni of the Urban Arts program was none other than Prince himself.) |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422153520/https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2022/02/new-documentary-looks-back-at-minneapolis-1970s-era-experimental-arts-program/ |url-status=live}}|alt=Prince playing guitar at night]]

Minnesota Orchestra plays classical and popular music at Orchestra Hall under music director Thomas Søndergård.{{cite web |date=July 28, 2022 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |publisher=Minnesota Orchestral Association |url=https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/stories/meet-the-music-director-designate-thomas-sondergard/ |title=Meet the Music Director Designate: Thomas Søndergård |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926192123/https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/stories/meet-the-music-director-designate-thomas-sondergard/ |url-status=live}} The orchestra won a 2014 Grammy for their recording of Sibelius's first and fourth symphonies{{cite news |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/26/minnesota-orchestra-wins-grammy |title=Minnesota Orchestra wins Grammy |author=Wurzer, Cathy |date=January 26, 2014 |work=MPR News |access-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-date=February 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208002919/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/26/minnesota-orchestra-wins-grammy |url-status=live}} and a 2004 Grammy for composer Dominick Argento with their recording of Casa Guidi.{{cite news |title=Best Contemporary Composition |date=February 9, 2004 |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667101 |access-date=July 19, 2021 |work=NPR |archive-date=July 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719152300/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667101 |url-status=live}} Minneapolis's opera companies include Minnesota Opera,{{cite news |last=Cameron |first=Linda |date=July 18, 2016 |title=Best Operas In Minnesota |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/best-operas-in-minnesota/ |work=CBS News Minnesota |publisher=CBS Broadcasting |access-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514190812/https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/best-operas-in-minnesota/ |url-status=live}}{{efn|The Minnesota Opera has offices in Minneapolis and performs in Saint Paul.}} the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-troupe-offers-a-rare-slice-of-gilbert-sullivan/248871161/ |last=Royce |first=Graydon |date=March 6, 2014 |title=Theater: Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company |work=Star Tribune |access-date=January 1, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414123701/https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-troupe-offers-a-rare-slice-of-gilbert-sullivan/248871161/ |url-status=live}} and Really Spicy Opera.{{cite news |last=Longbella |first=Maren |date=August 7, 2016 |title=Fringe review: 'Game of Thrones: The Musical' |url=https://www.twincities.com/2016/08/07/fringe-review-game-of-thrones-the-musical/ |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |publisher=MediaNews Group |access-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-date=May 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514185904/https://www.twincities.com/2016/08/07/fringe-review-game-of-thrones-the-musical/ |url-status=live}}

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Prince was a child prodigy{{cite report |title=Minneapolis Music History, 1850–2000: A Context |first1=Charlene |last1=Roise |first2=Elizabeth |last2=Gales |first3=Kristen |last3=Koehlinger |first4=Kathryn |last4=Goetz |last5=Hess |first5=Roise and Company |first6=Kristen |last6=Zschomler |first7=Stephanie |last7=Rouse |first8=Jason |last8=Wittenberg |date=December 2018 |page=42 |access-date=May 1, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/government/Minneapolis-Music-History-1850-2000.pdf |quote=A true musical prodigy, Prince mastered the piano by about age eight while living at 2620 Eighth Avenue North, where he could play anything he heard by ear on the piano and began songwriting. |archive-date=May 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515114952/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/government/Minneapolis-Music-History-1850-2000.pdf |url-status=live}} who was born in Minneapolis and lived in the area for most of his life.{{cite news |title=So you're a Prince fan visiting Minnesota: Five must-see stops |last1=Gabler |first1=Jay |date=January 27, 2018 |work=The Current |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |access-date=December 20, 2019 |url=https://blog.thecurrent.org/2018/01/so-youre-a-prince-fan-visiting-minnesota-five-must-see-stops/ |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815082522/https://blog.thecurrent.org/2018/01/so-youre-a-prince-fan-visiting-minnesota-five-must-see-stops/ |url-status=live}} In an era of music scenes,{{cite web |title=A Tale Of Twin Cities: Hüsker Dü, The Replacements And The Rise And Fall Of The '80s Minneapolis Scene |url=https://magnetmagazine.com/2005/06/12/a-tale-of-twin-cities-husker-du-the-replacements-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-80s-minneapolis-scene/ |date=June 12, 2005 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |publisher=Magnet magazine |quote=For a few years in the mid-'80s, not long after Athens and sometime before Seattle, the epicenter of American underground rock was Minneapolis....But genius can put any town on the map, which Prince accomplished for his home city with 1984 album and film Purple Rain, whose prominent concert footage was shot at a local club called First Avenue. |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412182805/https://magnetmagazine.com/2005/06/12/a-tale-of-twin-cities-husker-du-the-replacements-and-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-80s-minneapolis-scene/ |url-status=live}} 1980s Minneapolis was a hotbed for American underground rock alongside R&B, funk, and soul{{sfn|Corrigan|Sigelman|2018|p=x|loc="At the dawn of the 1980s, the Twin Cities music scene was poised to explode.... Husker Du, the Replacements, Loud Fast Rules (later Soul Asylum) and others were fast building rabid local followings and would soon achieve national acclaim.... At the same time, a vibrant R&B, funk, and soul scene was maturing and forming what would be known as the "Minneapolis sound". The young guitar and songwriting virtuoso Prince was perfecting his innovative and infectious style..."}} thanks to the nightclub First Avenue and musicians like Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, and Prince.{{cite web |title=Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in the '80s |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9832-everybody-is-a-star-how-the-rock-club-first-avenue-made-minneapolis-the-center-of-music-in-the-80s/ |last=Matos |first=Michaelangelo |date=March 14, 2016 |access-date=April 16, 2023 |publisher=Condé Nast |work=Pitchfork |quote=Minneapolis music peaked in the middle of 1984: Purple Rain in theaters, the release of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade, and the 12" of the Replacements' "I Will Dare". By 1987, that crazy peak had subsided. Hüsker Dü released another double LP in January...but broke up shortly after their manager David Savoy's suicide. On May 27, the Replacements played First Avenue for the last time. And in September, Prince opened Paisley Park Studios way out in Chanhassen.... |archive-date=April 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416150455/https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9832-everybody-is-a-star-how-the-rock-club-first-avenue-made-minneapolis-the-center-of-music-in-the-80s/ |url-status=live}} The city hosts several other concert venues including the Cedar and the Dakota.{{cite news |url=https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/concert-venues/ |title=A Guide to Twin Cities Concert Venues |author=Moran, Lydia |date=January 28, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |work=Mpls. St. Paul |publisher=Key Enterprises |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926181502/https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/concert-venues/ |url-status=live}} The Armory, the Skyway Theatre,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/oct-10-skyway-theatre-is-reborn-as-a-music-venue/227269021 |title=Minneapolis' Skyway Theatre is reborn as a music venue |last=Riemenschneider |first=Chris |date=November 25, 2013 |access-date=September 10, 2024 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909040959/https://www.startribune.com/oct-10-skyway-theatre-is-reborn-as-a-music-venue/227269021 |url-status=live}} and the Uptown Theater have national management.{{cite web |title=Uptown Theater Minneapolis |url=https://www.livenation.com/venue/KovZ917AtLX/uptown-theater-minneapolis-events |access-date=June 11, 2023 |publisher=Live Nation |archive-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611170122/https://www.livenation.com/venue/KovZ917AtLX/uptown-theater-minneapolis-events |url-status=live}}

File:Aerial view of Black Lives Matter mural at Penn and Plymouth (50139920322).jpg mural (2020) organized by the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery{{cite news |title=Exhibits at Minnesota African American museum keep George Floyd's spirit alive |url=https://www.startribune.com/exhibits-at-minnesota-african-american-museum-keep-george-floyd-s-spirit-alive/572612682/ |author=Eler, Alicia |date=October 2, 2020 |access-date=November 28, 2022 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128191038/https://www.startribune.com/exhibits-at-minnesota-african-american-museum-keep-george-floyd-s-spirit-alive/572612682/ |url-status=live}}|alt=The phrase "Black Lives Matter" painted on a road.]]

Exhibits at Mill City Museum feature the city's history of flour milling.{{cite web |title=Mill City Museum: Learn |url=https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn |access-date=April 20, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420153946/https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn |url-status=live}} The Bakken, formerly known as the Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life,{{sfn|Vollmar|2003}} shifted focus in 2016 from electricity and magnetism to invention and innovation, and in 2020 opened a new entrance on Bde Maka Ska.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-quirky-bakken-museum-reinvents-itself-with-4-5m-face-lift/572674982/ |title=Minnesota's quirky Bakken Museum reinvents itself with $4.5M face lift |work=Star Tribune |author=Eler, Alicia |access-date=November 27, 2021 |date=October 8, 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127220626/https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-s-quirky-bakken-museum-reinvents-itself-with-4-5m-face-lift/572674982/ |url-status=live}} Hennepin History Museum is housed in a former mansion.{{cite news |title=New director says Hennepin History Museum has 'room for growth' |author=Farber, Zac |date=September 9, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |url=https://www.southwestjournal.com/news/2019/09/new-director-says-hennepin-history-museum-has-room-for-growth/ |work=Southwest Journal |publisher=Minnesota Premier Publications |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127201256/https://www.southwestjournal.com/news/2019/09/new-director-says-hennepin-history-museum-has-room-for-growth/ |url-status=live}} Built of elaborate woodwork in 1875 and maintained today as a historic site, the little Minnehaha Depot was a stop on one of the first railroads built out of Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://www.mnhs.org/minnehahadepot/learn |title=Minnehaha Depot: Learn |access-date=April 20, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420153948/https://www.mnhs.org/minnehahadepot/learn |url-status=live}}

The American Swedish Institute occupies a former mansion on Park Avenue.{{cite web |publisher=Minnesota Digital Library |url=https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/swede:310#/image/0 |title=Detail of the grand hall fireplace, American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127214723/https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/swede:310#/image/0 |url-status=live}} The American Indian Cultural Corridor, about eight blocks on Franklin Avenue, houses All My Relatives Gallery.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/minneapolis-native-american-culture.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/arts/minneapolis-native-american-culture.html |archive-date=December 28, 2021 |url-access=limited |title=In Minneapolis, a Thriving Center for Indigenous Art |author=Cipolle, Alex V. |date=October 20, 2021 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |work=The New York Times}}{{cbignore}} In 2013, the Somali Museum of Minnesota opened on Lake Street.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-museum-preserves-somalia-s-culture/228489191/ |title=Somali culture on display |last=Feyder |first=Susan |date=October 20, 2013 |access-date=September 30, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104162005/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-museum-preserves-somalia-s-culture/228489191/ |url-status=live}} The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery was founded in 2018.{{cite news |title=Minnesota finally gets an African-American museum, thanks to two visionary women |author=Eler, Alicia |date=September 28, 2018 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-finally-gets-an-african-american-museum-thanks-to-two-visionary-women/494621491/ |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127201253/https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-finally-gets-an-african-american-museum-thanks-to-two-visionary-women/494621491/ |url-status=live}}

{{main|Hennepin County Library}}

In 2008, the Minneapolis Public Library merged with the Hennepin County Library. Fifteen of the system's forty-one branches serve Minneapolis.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis PL Merges with Hennepin County Library |url=https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/minneapolis-pl-merges-with-hennepin-county-library/ |access-date=February 11, 2023 |work=American Libraries |publisher=American Library Association |date=January 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831155737/https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/minneapolis-pl-merges-with-hennepin-county-library/ |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |url-status=live}} The downtown Central Library, designed by César Pelli, opened in 2006.{{cite news |last1=Millett |first1=Larry |title=Minneapolis' 'library block' has a fascinating history of loss and renewal |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-library-block-was-once-home-to-other-noteworthy-buildings/430375493/ |access-date=February 11, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |date=June 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724091217/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-library-block-was-once-home-to-other-noteworthy-buildings/430375493/ |archive-date=July 24, 2021 |url-status=live}} Seven special collections hold resources for researchers.{{cite web |url=https://www.hclib.org/about/locations/special-collections#collections |title=Collections |access-date=February 12, 2023 |publisher=Hennepin County Library |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212193509/https://www.hclib.org/about/locations/special-collections#collections |url-status=live}}

The nonprofit literary presses Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press, and Milkweed Editions are based in Minneapolis.{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2021/09/new-leaders-at-the-ordway-and-coffee-house-press-new-minnesota-poet-laureate/ |title=New leaders at the Ordway and Coffee House Press; new Minnesota poet laureate |author=Espeland, Pamela |date=September 14, 2021 |access-date=September 14, 2021 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=September 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914164046/https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2021/09/new-leaders-at-the-ordway-and-coffee-house-press-new-minnesota-poet-laureate/ |url-status=live}} The University of Minnesota Press publishes books, journals, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.{{cite web |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=May 13, 2023 |title=Minnesota Scholarship Online: About |url=https://academic.oup.com/minnesota-scholarship-online/pages/about |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513165311/https://academic.oup.com/minnesota-scholarship-online/pages/about |url-status=live}} The Open Book facility houses The Loft Literary Center, Milkweed, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.{{cite news |title=With Books as a Catalyst, Minneapolis Neighborhood Revives |last=Chamberlain |first=Lisa |date=April 30, 2008 |access-date=May 12, 2023 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/realestate/commercial/30books.html |archive-date=May 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512134605/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/realestate/commercial/30books.html |url-status=live}} Other Minneapolis publishers are 1517 Media,{{cite news |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=May 13, 2023 |title=Christian Publishers Sharpen a Direct-to-Consumer Focus |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/90986-christian-publishers-sharpen-a-direct-to-consumer-focus.html |first=Ann |last=Byle |date=November 22, 2022 |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513171747/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/90986-christian-publishers-sharpen-a-direct-to-consumer-focus.html |url-status=live}} Button Poetry,{{cite news |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=May 13, 2023 |title=Is Poetry the New Adult Coloring Book? |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/74638-is-poetry-the-new-adult-coloring-book.html |first=Jason |last=Boog |date=August 25, 2017 |archive-date=April 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230409002213/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/74638-is-poetry-the-new-adult-coloring-book.html |url-status=live}} and Lerner Publishing Group.{{cite news |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=May 13, 2023 |title=Lerner Publishing Group's New Partnership Centers Accessibility |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/92093-lerner-publishing-group-s-new-partnership-centers-accessibility.html |first=Iyana |last=Jones |date=April 24, 2023 |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513170418/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/92093-lerner-publishing-group-s-new-partnership-centers-accessibility.html |url-status=live}}

{{further|Cuisine of the Midwestern United States#Minneapolis and Saint Paul}}

After the flight to the suburbs began in the 1950s, streetcar service ended citywide.{{cite news |title=The Fierce Urgency of North |last1=Wood |first1=Drew |url=http://minnesotabusiness.com/fierce-urgency-north |date=March–April 2018 |work=Minnesota Business |publisher=Tiger Oak Media |access-date=March 25, 2018 |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625185335/http://minnesotabusiness.com/fierce-urgency-north}}

One of the largest urban food deserts in the US developed on the north side of Minneapolis, where as of mid-2017, 70,000 people had access to only two grocery stores.{{cite news |title=Minnesota Among Worst States for Food Deserts |last1=Kamal |first1=Rana |url=http://thecwtc.com/news/local/minnesota-among-worst-states-for-food-deserts |date=July 23, 2017 |access-date=March 25, 2018 |work=The CW Twin Cities |publisher=Sinclair Broadcast Group |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420111429/https://thecwtc.com/news/local/minnesota-among-worst-states-for-food-deserts |url-status=live}} When Aldi closed in 2023, the area again became a food desert with two full-service grocers.{{cite news |title=Aldi to close north Minneapolis store, leaving few full-service options |url=https://www.startribune.com/aldi-to-close-its-north-minneapolis-store-one-of-the-areas-only-full-service-grocers-next-week/600249570/ |author=Sitaramiah, Gita |date=February 6, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |access-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-date=February 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207165051/https://www.startribune.com/aldi-to-close-its-north-minneapolis-store-one-of-the-areas-only-full-service-grocers-next-week/600249570/ |url-status=live}} The nonprofit Appetite for Change sought to improve the diet of residents, competing against an influx of fast-food stores,{{cite news |last1=Noguchi |first1=Yuki |date=November 27, 2020 |title=A Garden Is The Frontline In The Fight Against Racial Inequality And Disease |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/27/933084469/a-garden-is-the-frontline-in-the-fight-against-racial-inequality-and-disease |access-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-date=July 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718044657/https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/27/933084469/a-garden-is-the-frontline-in-the-fight-against-racial-inequality-and-disease |url-status=live}} and by 2017 it administered ten gardens, sold produce in the mid-year months at West Broadway Farmers Market, supplied its restaurants, and gave away boxes of fresh produce.{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Brandi D. |date=June 7, 2017 |title=Appetite for Change creates oasis in Northside food desert |work=Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder |url=http://spokesman-recorder.com/2017/06/07/appetite-change-creates-oasis-northside-food-desert/ |access-date=March 25, 2017 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420083715/https://spokesman-recorder.com/2017/06/07/appetite-change-creates-oasis-northside-food-desert/ |url-status=live}} Appetite for Change closed its Minneapolis restaurant in 2023, opened a food truck, and received a grant from the Minnesota legislature to create a long-term home.{{cite news |title=Appetite For Change to close Breaking Bread, launch it as food truck as it seeks forever home |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/appetite-for-change-to-close-breaking-bread-launch-it-as-food-truck |last=Uren |first=Adam |date=July 17, 2023 |access-date=August 29, 2024 |work=Bring Me The News |archive-date=August 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829141700/https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/appetite-for-change-to-close-breaking-bread-launch-it-as-food-truck |url-status=live}} West Broadway is one of twenty farmers markets and mini-markets operating in the city, and among them, four are open during winter.{{cite web |url=https://farmersmarketsofmpls.org/markets-a-to-z/ |title=Markets A to Z |access-date=March 21, 2024 |publisher=Farmers Markets of Minneapolis |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520235050/https://farmersmarketsofmpls.org/markets-a-to-z/ |url-status=live}}

Minneapolis-based individuals who have won the food industry James Beard Foundation Award include chef Gavin Kaysen,{{cite web |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/gavin-kaysen-0 |title=Gavin Kaysen |access-date=April 21, 2023 |publisher=James Beard Foundation |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414123425/https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/gavin-kaysen-0 |url-status=live}} writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl,{{cite web |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/dara-moskowitz-grumdahl |publisher=James Beard Foundation |title=Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl |access-date=February 24, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818095115/https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/dara-moskowitz-grumdahl |url-status=live}} television personality Andrew Zimmern,{{cite web |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/andrew-zimmern |title=Andrew Zimmern |publisher=James Beard Foundation |access-date=February 3, 2018 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414123411/https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/andrew-zimmern |url-status=live}} and chef Sean Sherman,{{cite web |url=https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/sean-sherman |title=Sean Sherman |publisher=James Beard Foundation |access-date=April 21, 2023 |archive-date=March 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329203951/https://www.jamesbeard.org/chef/sean-sherman |url-status=live}} whose restaurant Owamni received James Beard's 2022 best new restaurant award.{{cite magazine |last=Kormann |first=Carolyn |date=September 19, 2022 |title=How Owamni Became the Best New Restaurant in the United States |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/how-owamni-became-the-best-new-restaurant-in-the-united-states |access-date=June 17, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230318023452/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/how-owamni-became-the-best-new-restaurant-in-the-united-states |url-status=live}}

Conceived in Minneapolis as a malted milkshake in candy form, the Milky Way bar of nougat, caramel, and chocolate was made in the North Loop neighborhood during the 1920s.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/first-milky-way-bar-made-in-minneapolis-100-years-ago-mars-candy-food-innovation-history/600309804/ |title=The Milky Way bar, born in a Minneapolis diner, turns 100 |last=Johnson |first=Brooks |date=October 5, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-date=October 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006020459/https://www.startribune.com/first-milky-way-bar-made-in-minneapolis-100-years-ago-mars-candy-food-innovation-history/600309804/ |url-status=live}} Both purported originators of the Jucy Lucy burger—the 5-8 Club and Matt's Bar—have served it since the 1950s.{{cite web |url=https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020256-juicy-lucy-burger |author=Weibel, Alexa |title=Juicy Lucy Burger |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818230459/https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020256-juicy-lucy-burger |url-status=live}} East African cuisine arrived in Minneapolis with the wave of migrants from Somalia that started in the 1990s.{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Meredith |title=Camel burgers and beyond: Minneapolis' Somali food scene |url=http://www.phillytrib.com/news/camel-burgers-and-beyond-minneapolis-somali-food-scene/article_abadc151-f761-5f69-ac77-3271be0e8bf5.html |access-date=September 17, 2017 |work=The Philadelphia Tribune |date=August 19, 2017 |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421060540/https://www.phillytrib.com/news/camel-burgers-and-beyond-minneapolis-somali-food-scene/article_abadc151-f761-5f69-ac77-3271be0e8bf5.html |url-status=live}} The Herbivorous Butcher, described by CBS News as the "first vegan 'butcher' shop in the United States", opened in 2016.{{cite news |title=DeRusha Eats: The Herbivorous Butcher |date=January 21, 2016 |access-date=February 18, 2023 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/derusha-eats-the-herbivorous-butcher/ |work=CBS News Minnesota |publisher=CBS Broadcasting |archive-date=February 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230218215813/https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/derusha-eats-the-herbivorous-butcher/ |url-status=live}}

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Minneapolis has four professional sports teams. The American football team Minnesota Vikings and the baseball team Minnesota Twins have played in the state since 1961. The Vikings were a National Football League expansion team, and the Twins were formed when the Washington Senators relocated to Minnesota.{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Brian |title=The Twins and Vikings: How they started |url=https://www.twincities.com/2011/07/30/the-twins-and-vikings-how-they-started/amp/ |access-date=November 13, 2020 |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |publisher=MediaNews Group |date=November 12, 2015 |archive-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819015156/https://www.twincities.com/2011/07/30/the-twins-and-vikings-how-they-started/amp/ |url-status=live}} The Twins won the World Series in 1987 and 1991, and have played at Target Field since 2010.{{cite web |work=Minnesota Issues Resource Guides |title=Baseball Stadiums in Minnesota |url=https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=baseball |access-date=April 15, 2023 |date=October 2022 |publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415192723/https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=baseball |url-status=live}} The Vikings played in the Super Bowl following the 1969, 1973, 1974, and 1976 seasons, losing all four games.{{cite web |work=Minnesota Issues Resource Guides |title=Football Stadiums in Minnesota and the Vikings |url=https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=football |access-date=April 15, 2023 |date=September 2022 |publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415192722/https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=football |url-status=live}} The basketball team Minnesota Timberwolves returned National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball to Minneapolis in 1989, and were followed by Minnesota Lynx in 1999. Both basketball teams play in the Target Center.{{cite web |work=Minnesota Issues Resource Guides |title=Basketball in Minnesota and the Target Center Arena |url=https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=target |access-date=April 15, 2023 |date=September 2022 |publisher=Minnesota Legislative Reference Library |archive-date=April 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415194456/https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=target |url-status=live}} The Lynx were the most-successful Minnesota professional sports team and a dominant force in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), losing the 2024 finals{{cite news |title=Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve says series 'stolen' after poor officiating in WNBA Finals loss to Liberty |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5859561/2024/10/21/wnba-finals-officiating-lynx-liberty/ |date=October 21, 2004 |access-date=October 22, 2024 |last=Merchant |first=Sabreena |work=The Athletic}} and winning four WNBA championships from 2011 to 2017.{{cite news |title=The 2010s: Minnesota Lynx all-decade team, with a twist |last=Davidson |first=Katie |date=November 25, 2019 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |newspaper=The Athletic |url=https://theathletic.com/1383750/2019/11/25/the-2010s-minnesota-lynx-all-decade-team-with-a-twist/ |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102155543/https://theathletic.com/1383750/2019/11/25/the-2010s-minnesota-lynx-all-decade-team-with-a-twist/ |url-status=live}}

Minnesota Frost, the 2024 champion Professional Women's Hockey League team,{{Cite news |last=Cox |first=Peter |date=May 30, 2024 |title=PWHL Minnesota fans cheer on the team in Boston and at home as they win inaugural Walter Cup |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/29/pwhl-minnesota-fans-in-boston-walter-cup |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530131110/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/29/pwhl-minnesota-fans-in-boston-walter-cup |archive-date=May 30, 2024 |access-date=May 31, 2024 |work=MPR News |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio |location=St. Paul |language=en-US}} and the Minnesota Wild, a National Hockey League team, play at the Xcel Energy Center,{{cite web |url=https://www.xcelenergycenter.com/teams/ |title=Teams |access-date=October 30, 2024 |publisher=Xcel Energy Center}} and the Major League Soccer soccer team Minnesota United FC play at Allianz Field. Both venues are located in Saint Paul.{{cite web |title=All About Allianz: Guide to the Home of Minnesota United |url=https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/all-about-allianz-guide-to-the-new-home-of-minnesota-united-fc/ |access-date=April 17, 2023 |publisher=Visit Saint Paul Official Convention & Visitors Bureau |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417204531/https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/blog/all-about-allianz-guide-to-the-new-home-of-minnesota-united-fc/ |url-status=live}}

In addition to professional sports teams, Minneapolis hosts a majority of the Minnesota Golden Gophers' college sports teams of the University of Minnesota. The twenty-five-member dance team performs at home football and men's basketball games and has won twenty-three national championships since 2003.{{cite news|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/01/21/university-of-minnesota-dance-cheer-teams-take-home-national-championships|title=University of Minnesota Dance, Cheer teams take home national championships|last=Crann|first1=Tom|last2=Brown|first2=Gretchen|date=January 21, 2025|access-date=January 21, 2025|work=MPR News}} The Gophers football team plays at Huntington Bank Stadium and has won seven national championships.{{Cite web |date=December 2, 2014 |title=University of Minnesota Official Athletic Site – Traditions |publisher=CBS Interactive |url=http://www.gophersports.com/trads/championships.html |access-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202033904/http://www.gophersports.com/trads/championships.html |archive-date=December 2, 2014}} The Gophers women's ice hockey team is a six-time NCAA champion.{{cite news |last=Graff |first=Chad |date=March 20, 2016 |title=Gophers women's hockey wins fourth NCAA championship in five years |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |publisher=MediaNews Group |url=http://www.twincities.com/2016/03/20/gophers-womens-hockey-wins-a-fourth-ncaa-championship-in-five-years/ |access-date=September 2, 2016 |archive-date=April 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420092339/https://www.twincities.com/2016/03/20/gophers-womens-hockey-wins-a-fourth-ncaa-championship-in-five-years/ |url-status=live}} The Gophers men's ice hockey team plays at 3M Arena at Mariucci, and won five NCAA championships.{{Cite web |title=NCAA Champions |url=https://gophersports.com/sports/2018/5/21/sports-m-hockey-spec-rel-m-hockey-ncaa-champs-html.aspx |access-date=August 21, 2021 |work=University of Minnesota Athletics |publisher=Learfield |language=en |archive-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210821203146/https://gophersports.com/sports/2018/5/21/sports-m-hockey-spec-rel-m-hockey-ncaa-champs-html.aspx |url-status=live}} Both the Golden Gophers men's basketball and women's basketball teams play at Williams Arena.{{cite news |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/few-or-no-fans-to-be-allowed-at-gopher-basketball-home-games |title=Few or no fans to be allowed at Gopher basketball home games |last=Nelson |first=Joe |date=November 13, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2023 |work=Bring Me The News |publisher=The Arena Group |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417162255/https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-sports/few-or-no-fans-to-be-allowed-at-gopher-basketball-home-games |url-status=live}}

The {{convert|1,700,000|sqft|sqm|adj=on}} U.S. Bank Stadium was built for the Vikings at a cost of $1.122 billion {{USDCY|1122000000|2012}};{{Inflation/fn|US}} of this, the state of Minnesota provided $348{{nbsp}}million {{USDCY|348000000|2012}},{{Inflation/fn|US}} and the city of Minneapolis spent $150{{nbsp}}million {{USDCY|150000000|2012}}.{{Inflation/fn|US}} The stadium, which MPR News called "Minnesota's biggest-ever public works project", opened in 2016 with 66,000 seats, which was expanded to 70,000 for the 2018 Super Bowl.{{cite news |title=Colossus of 'whoas': Vikings open U.S. Bank Stadium |last=Nelson |first=Tim |date=July 22, 2016 |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/07/22/new-vikings-stadium-to-hold-open-house |work=MPR News |access-date=August 31, 2016 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414150823/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/07/22/new-vikings-stadium-to-hold-open-house |url-status=live}} U.S. Bank Stadium also hosts indoor running and rollerblading nights.{{cite news |last1=Pheifer |first1=Pat |title=Indoor skaters flock to U.S. Bank Stadium |url=https://www.startribune.com/indoor-skaters-flock-to-u-s-bank-stadium/408458245/ |access-date=November 13, 2020 |work=Star Tribune |date=December 27, 2016 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414150903/https://www.startribune.com/indoor-skaters-flock-to-u-s-bank-stadium/408458245/ |url-status=live}} Minneapolis has two municipal golf coursesColumbia and Hiawatha in {{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/golf/courses/ |title=Courses |access-date=June 21, 2024 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=June 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624202037/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/golf/courses/ |url-status=live}} and one private course.{{cite web |url=https://www.pga.com/play/mn/minneapolis/the-minikahda-club/0547650 |title=The Minikahda Club |access-date=June 24, 2024 |publisher=PGA of America |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604210136/https://www.pga.com/play/mn/minneapolis/the-minikahda-club/0547650 |url-status=live}} Each January, the U.S. Pond Hockey Championships are held on Lake Nokomis.{{Cite web |title=U.S. Pond Hockey Championships |url=https://www.uspondhockey.com/ |access-date=March 3, 2021 |publisher=SportsEngine |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414150506/https://www.uspondhockey.com/ |url-status=live}} The Twin Cities Marathon held in October is a Boston Marathon qualifier.{{cite web |url=https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/enter/qualify/top-qualifying-races |publisher=Boston Athletic Association |title=Qualifying Races Around The World |access-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816012209/https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/enter/qualify/top-qualifying-races |url-status=live}} The final weekend of the 2024 pond hockey championships was canceled due to above average temperatures,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/us-pond-hockey-championships-lake-nokomis-minneapolis-canceled-warm-weather-poor-ice/600338659/ |title=U.S. Pond Hockey Championships canceled because of poor ice on Lake Nokomis |date=January 5, 2024 |access-date=July 18, 2024 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726184709/https://www.startribune.com/us-pond-hockey-championships-lake-nokomis-minneapolis-canceled-warm-weather-poor-ice/600338659/ |url-status=live}} as was the 2023 marathon.{{cite web |url=https://climate.umn.edu/events/winter-webinar-climate-threats-outdoor-recreation |title=Winter Webinar: Climate threats to outdoor recreation |access-date=July 18, 2024 |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=July 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707231053/https://climate.umn.edu/events/winter-webinar-climate-threats-outdoor-recreation |url-status=live}}

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Landscape architect Horace Cleveland's masterpiece is the Minneapolis park system.{{sfn|Nadenicek|Neckar|2002|p=[https://archive.org/details/landscapearchite00hwsc/page/n43/mode/2up?q=xxxix xxxix]|loc="With other societal superintendents influenced by the ideals of New England, Cleveland was later able to design and implement his crowning achievement, the Minneapolis Park System."}} In the 1880s, he preserved geographical landmarks and linked them with boulevards and parkways.{{sfn|Nadenicek|Neckar|2002|pp=[https://archive.org/details/landscapearchite00hwsc/page/n45/mode/2up?q=xli xli]|loc="Cleveland successfully linked boulevards, small neighborhood parks of Parisian derivation, prairie ponds with wild islands, and lake-edge parkways"}} In their introduction to a modern reprint of Cleveland's treatise on landscape architecture, professors Daniel Nadenicek and Lance Neckar add that "Cleveland was successful in Minneapolis in great measure because he operated with kindred spirits" like William Watts Folwell and Charles M. Loring.{{sfn|Nadenicek|Neckar|2002|p=[https://archive.org/details/landscapearchite00hwsc/page/n45/mode/2up?q=xli xli]}} In his book The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, Alexander Garvin wrote Minneapolis built "the best-located, best-financed, best-designed, and best-maintained public open space in America".{{sfn|Garvin|2013|p=75}}

Cleveland lobbied for a park on the riverfront to include the city's other waterfall.{{sfn|Smith|2008|pp=44–46}} In 1889, George A. Brackett arranged financing, and his associate Henry Brown paid the state to cover the condemnation of surrounding land.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=46}} Minnehaha Park, containing the 53-foot (16 m) waterfall Minnehaha Falls, is one of Minnesota's first state parks.{{cite web |title=Minnehaha Regional Park |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/parks__lakes/minnehaha_regional_park/ |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |access-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-date=March 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321170202/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/parks__lakes/minnehaha_regional_park/ |url-status=live}} The falls became what historian Mary Lethert Wingerd calls a "civic emblem" that appears on products and in placenames.{{sfn|Wingerd|2010|pp=352–353}}

The city's parks are governed and operated by the independent Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board park district. Beyond its network of 185 neighborhood parks,{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/ |title=Parks & Lakes |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |access-date=July 22, 2023 |archive-date=July 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722134557/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/ |url-status=live}} the park board owns the city's street trees.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=xi|loc="The public spirit of those who envisioned the future also made sure Minneapolis was a city of trees. Often lost in consideration of the city's parks is that, from the very early days of the Minneapolis park board, it has been responsible for planting and maintaining street trees"}}{{efn|Minneapolis had planted more than 200,000 American elms on its streets and parks before Dutch elm disease was found in the city in 1963. By 1977, when the most were lost to the epidemic and the city began its control program, the Twin Cities had lost 192,000 elm trees to the disease, and more than 30,000 diseased trees were found in Minneapolis.{{cite journal |title=History of Dutch Elm Disease in Minnesota |last=French |first=David W. |access-date=August 23, 2024 |date=1993 |journal=University of Minnesota Extension Service |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11299/151957 |publisher=University Digital Conservancy |hdl=11299/151957 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909192900/https://conservancy.umn.edu/items/b61d5115-e99f-46f8-b801-a745affd0d2c |url-status=live}}}} The board owns nearly all land that borders the city's waterfronts—thus the public owns the city's lakeshore property.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=x|loc="The first thing that most visitors notice about Minneapolis parks is one of the unique features of the city: nearly every foot of land that borders water, other than stretches of the Mississippi River banks north of Broadway, is owned by the park board." and "This extraordinary fact of public life in Minneapolis, that the people own the waterways..."}} The park board owns land outside the city limits including its largest park, Theodore Wirth Park—sitting west of downtown Minneapolis and partly in Golden Valley—which incorporates the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/theodore_wirth_regional_park/ |title=Theodore Wirth Regional Park: Park Details |access-date=July 18, 2024 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726184710/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/theodore_wirth_regional_park/ |url-status=live}}

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As of 2020, approximately 15 percent of land in Minneapolis is parks, in accordance with the national median, and 98 percent of residents live within {{Convert|1/2|mile|km|spell=in|abbr=out|1}} of a park.{{Cite web |url=https://www.tpl.org/city/minneapolis-minnesota |title=ParkScore |publisher=Trust for Public Land |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511012742/https://www.tpl.org/city/minneapolis-minnesota |language=en-US |access-date=May 5, 2023 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |via=Internet Archive}} The city's Chain of Lakes extends through five lakes in southwest Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/minneapolis_chain_of_lakes_regional_park/ |title=Minneapolis Chain of Lakes Regional Park |access-date=July 18, 2024 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726184712/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks-destinations/parks-lakes/minneapolis_chain_of_lakes_regional_park/ |url-status=live}} The chain is connected by bicycle, running, and walking paths and is used for swimming, fishing, picnics, boating, ice skating, and other activities. A parkway for cars, a bikeway for riders, and a walkway for pedestrians{{cite web |title=Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/minnesota/grand-rounds-national-scenic-byway |publisher=AllTrails |access-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417180806/https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/minnesota/grand-rounds-national-scenic-byway |url-status=live}} run parallel along the {{convert|51|mi|km|adj=on}} route of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway.{{cite web |url=https://www.exploreminnesota.com/article/bike-51-mile-grand-rounds-scenic-byway-minneapolis |title=Bike the 51-Mile Grand Rounds Scenic Byway in Minneapolis |access-date=January 22, 2023 |publisher=Explore Minnesota Tourism |archive-date=January 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122145728/https://www.exploreminnesota.com/article/bike-51-mile-grand-rounds-scenic-byway-minneapolis |url-status=live}} Parks are interlinked in many places, and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area connects regional parks and visitor centers.{{cite web |url=http://npshistory.com/publications/miss/index.htm |title=Mississippi National River and Recreation Area |access-date=April 17, 2023 |publisher=US National Park Service |archive-date=April 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417205715/http://npshistory.com/publications/miss/index.htm |url-status=live}} Among walks and hikes running along the Mississippi River, the {{Convert|5|mile|adj=on|abbr=out|spell=in|0}}, hiking-only Winchell Trail offers views of and access to the Mississippi Gorge and a rustic hiking experience.{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/ptgkeyhikingwalk.htm |title=Walks and Hikes |publisher=US National Park Service |access-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816233115/https://www.nps.gov/miss/planyourvisit/ptgkeyhikingwalk.htm |url-status=live}} The Minneapolis Aquatennial, a civic celebration of the "City of Lakes", is held each July.{{cite news |url=https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/aquatennial-minneapolis/ |title=Aquatennial: The Ultimate Summer Block Party |access-date=May 13, 2023 |publisher=Key Enterprises |work=Mpls. St. Paul |date=July 22, 2019 |last=Marsh |first=Steve |archive-date=March 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319052255/https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/aquatennial-minneapolis/ |url-status=live}}

Minneapolis's climate provides opportunities for winter activities such as ice fishing, snowshoeing, ice skating, cross-country skiing, and sledding at many parks and lakes.{{Cite web |title=Winter Activities |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/activities__events/winter_activities/ |access-date=March 4, 2021 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812035052/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/activities__events/winter_activities/ |url-status=live}} As of 2024, the park board maintained 43 outdoor ice rinks at 20 sites in winter.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-ice-rinks-social-climate-change/601198863 |last=Kaul |first=Greta |date=December 24, 2024 |access-date=December 25, 2024 |title=Outdoor ice rinks are social hubs in Minnesota's long, dark winters. Some are disappearing. |work=Star Tribune}}

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The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), affiliated with the national Democratic Party, is the dominant political force in Minneapolis.{{Cite web |last=Orrick |first=Dave |date=January 13, 2024 |title=FBI investigates Minneapolis DFL endorsement process |url=https://www.startribune.com/fbi-looking-into-minneapolis-dfl-endorsement-process-city-council-races/600334597 |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=www.startribune.com |language=en |archive-date=August 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240804154033/https://www.startribune.com/fbi-looking-into-minneapolis-dfl-endorsement-process-city-council-races/600334597 |url-status=live}} The city has not elected a Republican mayor since 1975.{{Cite news |title=The man who was mayor of Minneapolis for just one day |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/11/07/mayor-for-a-day-in-minneapolis |access-date=April 25, 2022 |work=MPR News |language=en |archive-date=April 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425032745/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/11/07/mayor-for-a-day-in-minneapolis |url-status=live}} At the federal level, Minneapolis is in Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which has been represented by Democrat Ilhan Omar since 2018. Both of Minnesota's US senators, Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, are Democrats who were elected or appointed while residing in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=http://media.cq.com/members/25668 |title=Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. |publisher=Roll Call |access-date=January 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817041436/http://media.cq.com/members/25668 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://media.cq.com/members/115718 |title=Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn. |publisher=Roll Call |access-date=January 19, 2018 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414122617/http://media.cq.com/members/115718 |url-status=live}} Jacob Frey, a former city council member, was elected as the mayor of Minneapolis in 2017 and re-elected in 2021.{{cite news |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/11/04/how-jacob-frey-won-reelection |title=How Jacob Frey won reelection |date=November 4, 2021 |last=Montgomery |first=David H. |access-date=January 8, 2022 |work=MPR News |archive-date=January 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108203449/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/11/04/how-jacob-frey-won-reelection |url-status=live}} The city conducts its municipal elections using instant-runoff voting, which was first implemented ahead of the 2009 elections.{{cite news |last1=Regan |first1=Sheila |last2=Coleman |first2=Nick |last3=Nelson |first3=Kathryn G. |title=Minneapolis Mayoral Election: Betsy Hodges Almost Claims Her Almost Victory; RCV Count Goes Slow |url=http://theuptake.org/2013/11/06/minneapolis-election-leaders-ranked-choice-voting-new-voters-betsy-hodges/ |date=November 6, 2013 |work=The UpTake |access-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414151325/http://theuptake.org/2013/11/06/minneapolis-election-leaders-ranked-choice-voting-new-voters-betsy-hodges/}}

The Minneapolis City Council has 13 members who represent the city's 13 wards.{{cite news |url=https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minneapolis-city-council-candidates-race-election-guide-2023/ |title=2023 Minneapolis City Council race: Who's running, where candidates stand on key issues |last1=Tu |first1=Cynthia |last2=Hazzard |first2=Andrew |date=October 26, 2023 |access-date=November 2, 2023 |newspaper=Sahan Journal |archive-date=November 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102173754/https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/minneapolis-city-council-candidates-race-election-guide-2023/ |url-status=live}} In 2021, a ballot question shifted more weight from the city council to the mayor; proponents had tried to achieve this change since the early 20th century.{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2021/11/why-it-only-took-120-years-for-minneapolis-to-adopt-a-strong-mayor-system/ |title=Why it only took 120 years for Minneapolis to adopt a 'strong mayor' system |author=Nathanson, Iric |date=November 5, 2021 |access-date=January 8, 2021 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105143744/https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2021/11/why-it-only-took-120-years-for-minneapolis-to-adopt-a-strong-mayor-system/ |url-status=live}} The mayor and city council now share responsibility for the city's finances.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis' Ballot Question 1 passes, shifting more power from city council to mayor |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minneapolis-ballot-question-1-passes-shifting-more-power-from-city-council-to-mayor |last1=McLaughlin |first1=Shaymus |date=November 2, 2021 |access-date=November 29, 2021 |work=Bring Me the News |publisher=The Arena Group |archive-date=November 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128011433/https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minneapolis-ballot-question-1-passes-shifting-more-power-from-city-council-to-mayor |url-status=live}} The city's primary source of funding is property tax.{{cite web |url=https://stories.opengov.com/minneapolismn/published/Xb08AJg-qR5 |title=Budget-in-Brief |access-date=April 20, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |via=OpenGov |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420211728/https://stories.opengov.com/minneapolismn/published/Xb08AJg-qR5 |url-status=live}} A sales tax of 9.03 percent{{cite news |title=Metro sales taxes jumped Oct. 1. Here's where the money will go. |url=https://www.startribune.com/metro-sales-taxes-jumped-oct-1-heres-where-the-money-will-go-housing-and-transit/600309427/ |last=Magan |first=Christopher |date=October 3, 2023 |access-date=October 4, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003201354/https://www.startribune.com/metro-sales-taxes-jumped-oct-1-heres-where-the-money-will-go-housing-and-transit/600309427/ |url-status=live}} on purchases made within the city is a combination of the city sales tax of 0.50 percent, along with county, state, and special district taxes.{{cite web |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/finance/local-use-tax/ |title=Local use tax |access-date=February 11, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=February 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230211234013/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/finance/local-use-tax/}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tax-rates.org/minnesota/minneapolis_sales_tax |title=2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota Sales Tax |access-date=February 11, 2023 |publisher=Tax-Rates.org – The Federal & State Tax Information Portal |archive-date=February 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212064129/http://www.tax-rates.org/minnesota/minneapolis_sales_tax |url-status=live}} The Park and Recreation Board is an independent city department with nine elected commissioners who levy their own taxes, subject to city charter limits.{{cite web |url=https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTVIPAREBO |date=December 14, 2022 |title=Code of Ordinances: Charter Article VI |work=Municode |publisher=CivicPlus |access-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201212451/https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTVIPAREBO |url-status=live}} The Board of Estimation and Taxation, which oversees city levies, is also an independent department.{{cite web |url=https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTVBOESTA |date=December 14, 2022 |title=Code of Ordinances: Charter Article V |publisher=CivicPlus |work=Municode |access-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201232610/https://library.municode.com/mn/minneapolis/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH_ARTVBOESTA |url-status=live}}

The mayoral reform ballot measure led to four direct reports to the mayor—two officers, the city attorney, and the chief of staff—and the creation of two new offices.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/charter-and-code-of-ordinances/government-structure/ |title=Government structure |access-date=August 31, 2024 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=July 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718124404/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/charter-and-code-of-ordinances/government-structure/ |url-status=live}} The Office of Public Service is led by the city operations officer. The Minneapolis departments of civil rights and public works report to the office which oversees communications and engagement; development, health, and livability; and internal operations. The Office of Community Safety has a single commissioner responsible for overseeing the police and fire departments, 911 dispatch, emergency management, and violence prevention;{{cite news |author=Ibrahim, Mohamed |date=August 23, 2022 |access-date=September 17, 2022 |title=How Cedric Alexander aims to tackle Minneapolis' policing woes |url=https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2022/08/how-cedric-alexander-aims-to-tackle-minneapolis-policing-woes/ |work=MinnPost |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170631/https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2022/08/how-cedric-alexander-aims-to-tackle-minneapolis-policing-woes/ |url-status=live}} within this office, four emergency response units serve the city: Behavioral Crisis Response (BCR), fire, emergency medical services, and police. Canopy Mental Health & Consulting, also known as Canopy Roots, operates BCR free of charge{{cite web |title=Behavioral Crisis Response Team quick guide |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-content-assets/documents/BCR-Infographic-2.2.22.pdf |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-date=August 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812104008/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/media/-www-content-assets/documents/BCR-Infographic-2.2.22.pdf |url-status=live}} to respond to crises and some 911 calls that do not require police.{{Cite web |title=2021-00736 – Behavioral Crisis Response pilot |url=https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2021-00736 |access-date=September 17, 2022 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |work=Legislative Information Management System |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920170615/https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/File/2021-00736 |url-status=live}}

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After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, about 166 police officers left of their own accord either to retirement or to temporary leave—many with PTSD{{cite news |title=As police claims of PTSD soar in Minneapolis, public officials scramble to find solutions |url=https://www.startribune.com/as-police-claims-of-ptsd-soar-in-minneapolis-public-officials-scramble-to-find-solutions/600161709/ |author=Furst, Randy |date=April 2, 2022 |access-date=November 13, 2022 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113170007/https://www.startribune.com/as-police-claims-of-ptsd-soar-in-minneapolis-public-officials-scramble-to-find-solutions/600161709/ |url-status=live}}—and a crime wave resulted in more than 500 shootings.{{cite news |title=Divided Minneapolis City Council votes to cut $8 million from police budget |url=https://www.startribune.com/divided-minneapolis-council-keeps-mayor-jacob-freys-target-for-a-larger-police-force/573343121/ |last1=Navratil |first1=Liz |date=December 10, 2020 |access-date=December 10, 2020 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=July 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729225452/https://www.startribune.com/divided-minneapolis-council-keeps-mayor-jacob-freys-target-for-a-larger-police-force/573343121/ |url-status=live}} A Reuters investigation found that killings surged when a "hands-off" attitude resulted in fewer officer-initiated encounters.{{cite news |author=Heath, Brad |title=Special Report: After Floyd's killing, Minneapolis police retreated, data shows |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/after-floyds-killing-minneapolis-police-retreated-data-shows-2021-09-13/ |date=September 13, 2021 |access-date=November 10, 2022 |work=Reuters |archive-date=November 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110201149/https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/after-floyds-killing-minneapolis-police-retreated-data-shows-2021-09-13/ |url-status=live}} After Floyd's murder, chiefs reprimanded a dozen officers for misconduct,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-officers-reprimanded-misconduct-aftermath-george-floyd-murder/600356692/ |last=Sawyer |first=Liz |date=April 5, 2024 |access-date=May 28, 2024 |work=Star Tribune |title=Minneapolis police officers reprimanded for misconduct in aftermath of George Floyd's murder |archive-date=May 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528135911/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-officers-reprimanded-misconduct-aftermath-george-floyd-murder/600356692/ |url-status=live}} and as of early 2024, the city had paid out $50{{nbsp}}million for police conduct claims.{{cite web |url=https://tableau.minneapolismn.gov/views/OfficerConductPayouts/PayoutAmountsbyYear |title=Officer Conduct Payout Amounts by Year |access-date=May 28, 2024 |date=February 12, 2024 |author=City of Minneapolis |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=June 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624202058/https://tableau.minneapolismn.gov/views/OfficerConductPayouts/PayoutAmountsbyYear?%3Aembed=y&%3AisGuestRedirectFromVizportal=y |url-status=live}} In 2024 came approval of an independent monitor of a court-enforceable consent decree, an agreement negotiated with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the United States Department of Justice to compel reformed policing practices.{{cite news |title=Independent monitor chosen to oversee Minneapolis police reforms |last=Pross |first=Katrina |date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=May 19, 2024 |url=https://sahanjournal.com/policing-justice/minneapolis-police-reform-monitor-chosen-consent-decree/ |work=Sahan Journal |archive-date=May 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518181044/https://sahanjournal.com/policing-justice/minneapolis-police-reform-monitor-chosen-consent-decree/ |url-status=live}}

Violent crime rose three percent across Minneapolis in July 2022 compared with 2021,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/calls-for-accountability-forgiveness-mount-after-minneapolis-council-member-rainvilles-remarks/600189674/ |title=Pressure mounts against Minneapolis City Council's Rainville |last1=Navratil |first1=Liz |first2=Faiza |last2=Mahamud |date=July 12, 2022 |access-date=July 19, 2022 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=July 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719210616/https://www.startribune.com/calls-for-accountability-forgiveness-mount-after-minneapolis-council-member-rainvilles-remarks/600189674/ |url-status=live}} and in 2020, it rose 21 percent compared to the average of the previous five years.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis violent crimes soared in 2020 amid pandemic, protests |author=Jany, Libor |date=February 6, 2021 |access-date=July 19, 2022 |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-violent-crimes-soared-in-2020-amid-pandemic-protests/600019989/ |archive-date=July 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719210541/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-violent-crimes-soared-in-2020-amid-pandemic-protests/600019989/ |url-status=live}} Violent crime was down for 2022 in every category except assaults. Carjackings, gunshots fired, gunshot wounds, and robberies decreased, and homicides were down 20 percent compared to the previous year.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis violent crime numbers drop significantly in 2022 |author=Kolls, Jay |date=January 3, 2023 |access-date=January 3, 2023 |url=https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minneapolis-violent-crime-numbers-drop-significantly-in-2022/ |work=KSTP-TV |publisher=Hubbard Broadcasting |archive-date=January 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103033209/https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minneapolis-violent-crime-numbers-drop-significantly-in-2022/ |url-status=live}}

In 2015, the city council passed a resolution making fossil fuel divestment city policy,{{cite web |url=https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/RCA/6553 |title=Fossil Fuel Divestment Resolution (RCA-2020-00783) |access-date=February 2, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202235459/https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/RCA/6553 |url-status=live}} joining 17 cities worldwide in the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance. Minneapolis's climate plan calls for an 80-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.{{cite press release |title=The District Among 17 Leading International Cities to Launch Global Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance |work=Department of Energy & Environment |publisher=Dc.gov |url=https://doee.dc.gov/release/district-among-17-leading-international-cities-launch-global-carbon-neutral-cities-alliance |access-date=February 2, 2023 |date=March 30, 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202235505/https://doee.dc.gov/release/district-among-17-leading-international-cities-launch-global-carbon-neutral-cities-alliance |url-status=live}} In 2021, the city council voted unanimously to abolish its required minimum number of parking spaces for new construction.{{cite news |title=Ending minimum parking requirements was a policy win for the Twin Cities |url=https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/08/31/ending-minimum-parking-requirements-was-a-policy-win-for-the-twin-cities/ |last=Yudhishthu |first=Zak |date=August 31, 2023 |access-date=November 8, 2023 |newspaper=Minnesota Reformer |archive-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108185856/https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/08/31/ending-minimum-parking-requirements-was-a-policy-win-for-the-twin-cities/ |url-status=live}} Minneapolis has a separation ordinance that directs local law-enforcement officers not to "take any law enforcement action" for the sole purpose of finding undocumented immigrants, nor to ask an individual about their immigration status.{{cite news |url=https://www.twincities.com/2017/01/25/are-st-paul-minneapolis-sanctuary-cities-trumps-federal-cuts-raise-questions/ |title=Are St. Paul and Minneapolis 'sanctuary cities'? Trump's federal cuts raise questions |last1=Melo |first1=Frederick |date=January 27, 2017 |access-date=December 22, 2020 |work=St. Paul Pioneer Press |publisher=MediaNews Group |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414150809/https://www.twincities.com/2017/01/25/are-st-paul-minneapolis-sanctuary-cities-trumps-federal-cuts-raise-questions/ |url-status=live}}

In 1834, volunteer missionaries Gideon and Samuel PondThe brothers titled their book Two Volunteer Missionaries Among the Dakotas. {{cite web |title=Pond Family Papers |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |url=http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00717.xml |access-date=June 3, 2023 |last=Virtue |first=Ethel B. |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603210832/http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00717.xml |url-status=live}} sought permission for their work from the US Indian agency at Fort Snelling.{{cite web |title=The US Indian Agency (1820–1853) |url=https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/us-indian-agency |access-date=October 7, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |archive-date=August 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814051357/https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/us-indian-agency |url-status=live}} They taught new farming techniques and their Christian religion to Chief Cloud Man and his Dakota community on the east shore of Bde Maka Ska. That year, J. D. Stevens and the Ponds built an Indian mission near Lake Harriet, which was the first educational institution in the Minneapolis area. In the treaty of 1837, the US promised payment to the Dakota, but instead gave the monies to the missionaries earmarked for education, and in protest, fewer than ten Dakota students attended.{{sfn|Clemmons|2005|p=181}} After more settlers moved to the area, ten school buildings served nearly 4,000 students by 1874. The district had more than one hundred schools when enrollment peaked at 90,000 students in 1933.{{cite web |url=https://archives.hclib.org/resources/collection_on_the_minneapolis_public_schools |title=Collection on the Minneapolis Public Schools |publisher=Hennepin County Library |access-date=July 14, 2024}}

File:Bakken outreach at Emerson-2007.jpg, one of nine{{cite web |url=https://exploremps.org/Schools/Magnet |title=Magnet Schools with innovative programs |access-date=August 18, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Public Schools |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819155518/https://exploremps.org/Schools/Magnet |url-status=live}} magnet elementary schools]]

Minneapolis Public Schools has room for 45,000 students and enrolled about 28,500 K–12 students as of 2024,{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-public-schools-announces-some-cuts-coming-to-schools-next-year/600348839 |last=Klecker |first=Mara |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Minneapolis Public Schools announces some cuts coming to schools next year |work=Star Tribune |access-date=August 26, 2024 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909192847/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-public-schools-announces-some-cuts-coming-to-schools-next-year/600348839 |url-status=live}} in more than fifty schools, divided between community and magnet.{{cite news |title=What is the Comprehensive District Design? |url=https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/what-is-the-cdd-and-how-has-it-impacted-mps-families |author=Whitler, Melissa |date=April 11, 2022 |access-date=February 20, 2023 |work=Southwest Voices |archive-date=February 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220202035/https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/what-is-the-cdd-and-how-has-it-impacted-mps-families |url-status=live}} As of 2023, enrollment was declining about 1.5 percent per year, and approximately 60 percent of school age children attended district schools.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-public-schools-predicts-enrollment-decline-budget-shortfall/600149534/ |title=Minneapolis Public Schools predicts enrollment decline, budget shortfall |last=Klecker |first=Mara |date=February 22, 2023 |access-date=February 25, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=June 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240624202039/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-public-schools-predicts-enrollment-decline-budget-shortfall/600149534/ |url-status=live}} The city offered two reasons for the decline: a dwindling number of children lived in the city since 2020 and, accounting for one-fifth of the decline, the climbing popularity of charter schools and open enrollment.{{cite web |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/PAR-POLICY-BRIEFING---Public-School-Enrollment-Incentives.pdf |title=Policy Briefing: Declining MPLS Public School (MPS) Enrollment |access-date=September 8, 2024 |date=January 1, 2024 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=August 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819214735/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/PAR-POLICY-BRIEFING---Public-School-Enrollment-Incentives.pdf |url-status=live}} Many students enrolled in alternatives such as charter schools, of which the city had 28 as of 2024.{{cite web |url=https://mncharterschools.org/directory/index.php?strSearchText=&intAuthorizerID=0&intEnrollmentRange=0&intAttribute2059=true&submit=Search&strSearchView=table#results |access-date=August 26, 2024 |publisher=MN Association of Charter Schools |title=Directory: Schools |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909192848/https://mncharterschools.org/directory/index.php?strSearchText=&intAuthorizerID=0&intEnrollmentRange=0&intAttribute2059=true&submit=Search&strSearchView=table#results |url-status=live}} By state law, charter schools are open to all students and are tuition-free.{{cite web |title=Charter Schools |url=https://education.mn.gov/mde/fam/cs/ |publisher=Minnesota Department of Education |access-date=February 25, 2023 |archive-date=February 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224150531/https://education.mn.gov/MDE/fam/cs/ |url-status=live}} In 2022, about 1200 at-risk students attended district alternative schools that offered them better outcomes than traditional schools.{{cite web |url=https://alternative.mpls.k12.mn.us/ |title=MPS Alternative and Extended Learning Programs...Where Students Have a Choice with Learner Options |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Public Schools |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302164825/https://alternative.mpls.k12.mn.us/ |url-status=live}} For the 2022–2023 school year, 368 students were homeschooled in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://education.mn.gov/mdeprod/groups/educ/documents/basic/cm9k/mdcw/~edisp/prod070859.xlsx |title=Enrollment Information |access-date=September 8, 2024 |date=2024 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Education |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909192845/https://education.mn.gov/mdeprod/groups/educ/documents/basic/cm9k/mdcw/~edisp/prod070859.xlsx |url-status=live}}

School district demographics were 41 percent White students, 35 percent Black, 14 percent Hispanic, and 5 percent each were Asian and Native American.{{cite web |url=https://exploremps.org/School/edison_high_school |title=Edison High School |access-date=February 21, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Public Schools |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221182320/https://exploremps.org/School/edison_high_school |url-status=live}} English-language learners were about 17 percent in a district that spoke 100 languages at home.{{cite web |url=https://multilingual.mpls.k12.mn.us/ |title=Welcome to the Multilingual Department |access-date=February 21, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Public Schools |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221182856/https://multilingual.mpls.k12.mn.us/ |url-status=live}} About 15 percent were special education students. As of fall 2023, every public school student in the state receives one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day.{{cite web |url=https://education.mn.gov/mdeprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=PROD081923&RevisionSelectionMethod=latestReleased&Rendition=primary |title=MN Free School Meals Program |access-date=March 20, 2024 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Education |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204152424/https://education.mn.gov/mdeprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&dDocName=PROD081923&RevisionSelectionMethod=latestReleased&Rendition=primary |url-status=live}} In 2022, the district's graduation rate was 77 percent, an improvement of 3 percent over the previous year.{{cite web |title=Minneapolis Public Schools sees graduation rates increase |url=https://mpls.k12.mn.us/minneapolis_public_schools_sees_graduation_rates_increase.html |date=April 25, 2023 |access-date=April 28, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Public Schools |archive-date=April 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425225600/https://mpls.k12.mn.us/minneapolis_public_schools_sees_graduation_rates_increase.html |url-status=live}}

{{See also|Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system}}

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Headquartered in Minneapolis, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus enrolled more than 54,000 students in 2023–2024.{{cite web |title=Institutional Data and Research (IDR): Enrollments |url=https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-enrollment/enrollments |access-date=July 12, 2024 |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530055916/https://idr.umn.edu/reports-by-topic-enrollment/enrollments |url-status=live}} College rankings in 2024 place the school in the range of 44th{{cite web |title=University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities |date=2024 |publisher=Academic Ranking of World Universities |access-date=July 12, 2024 |archive-date=September 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930202405/https://www.shanghairanking.com/institution/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities |url-status=live}} to 203rd for academics worldwide.{{cite web |publisher=Times Higher Education |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-minnesota |title=University of Minnesota |access-date=July 12, 2024 |date=2024 |archive-date=February 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219185750/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-minnesota |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=University of Minnesota Twin Cities |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-minnesota-twin-cities#p2-programs |access-date=July 12, 2024 |date=2024 |publisher=QS Quacquarelli Symonds |archive-date=April 12, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412161155/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-minnesota-twin-cities#p2-programs |url-status=live}} QS found a decline in rank over a decade. Shanghai found excellence in ecology and library and information science. Among the 2,250 schools U.S. News & World Report compared in its 2024–2025 best global universities rankings, the University of Minnesota tied with Emory University at 63rd.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-174066 |title=University of Minnesota Twin Cities |access-date=July 12, 2024 |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |archive-date=April 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423065149/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-174066 |url-status=live}} The school has unusual autonomy that has existed in Minnesota since 1858, when the state constitution included the provision that regents are in control, independent of city government.{{cite news |title=From academics to COVID mandates, why the University of Minnesota gets to do pretty much whatever it wants |url=https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2022/01/from-academics-to-covid-mandates-why-the-university-of-minnesota-gets-to-pretty-much-do-whatever-it-wants/ |last=Callaghan |first=Peter |date=January 25, 2022 |access-date=February 3, 2022 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=February 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203164921/https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2022/01/from-academics-to-covid-mandates-why-the-university-of-minnesota-gets-to-pretty-much-do-whatever-it-wants/ |url-status=live}} Founded in 1851 and closed in its first decade for lack of funding, the University of Minnesota was revived under the Morrill Act of 1862 using land taken from the Dakota people.{{cite news |last=Vue |first=Katelyn |title=Over 150 years ago, tribal land revived the University. Now, American Indian leaders, students and faculty want this history addressed |newspaper=Minnesota Daily |date=July 7, 2020 |url=https://mndaily.com/255055/news/acmorrillact/ |access-date=November 25, 2023 |archive-date=November 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125170957/https://mndaily.com/255055/news/acmorrillact/ |url-status=live}}{{efn|The Treaty of 1837 forced Dakota to make the largest land cession—all of their land east of the Mississippi.{{cite web |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/great-university-land-grab |title=The great university land-grab |last=Almeroth-Williams |first=Tom |date=April 6, 2020 |quote=The Treaty of 1837 gave 1,062,334 acres, more than any other land cession, to 33 LGUs |access-date=April 11, 2024 |publisher=University of Cambridge |archive-date=February 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240214085809/https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/great-university-land-grab |url-status=live}} Then the Dakota ceded more of their land in the Treaty of 1851.{{cite news |last=Bhattacharya |first=Ananya |title=Native Americans are struggling to put a dollar value on how much "land-grab" universities owe them |newspaper=Quartz |date=July 10, 2023 |url=https://qz.com/native-americans-are-struggling-to-put-a-dollar-value-o-1850620896 |access-date=November 25, 2023 |archive-date=November 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125171143/https://qz.com/native-americans-are-struggling-to-put-a-dollar-value-o-1850620896 |url-status=live}}}}

Augsburg University, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and North Central University are private four-year colleges; the first two offer master's programs.{{sfn|The Princeton Review|2014|pp=49, 490, 538}} The public two-year Minneapolis Community and Technical College{{cite web |url=https://minneapolis.edu/about-minneapolis-college |title=About Minneapolis College |date=November 9, 2021 |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Community and Technical College |archive-date=March 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303003000/https://minneapolis.edu/about-minneapolis-college |url-status=live}} and the private Dunwoody College of Technology{{cite web |url=https://dunwoody.edu/about/about-us/ |title=About Us |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Dunwoody College of Technology |archive-date=March 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303004503/https://dunwoody.edu/about/about-us/ |url-status=live}} provide career training and associate degrees, and the latter offers a bachelor's program. Saint Mary's University of Minnesota has a Twin Cities campus for its graduate and professional programs.{{sfn|The Princeton Review|2014|p=655}} Opening a new Minneapolis site in 2024, Red Lake Nation College is an accredited federally recognized tribal college site that teaches Ojibwe culture and awards associate degrees.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/red-lake-nation-college-opens-in-minneapolis-offering-higher-education-and-cultural-connection/600371661/ |last=Navratil |first=Liz |date=June 6, 2024 |access-date=June 7, 2024 |title=Red Lake Nation College opens in Minneapolis, offering higher education and cultural connection |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606231811/https://www.startribune.com/red-lake-nation-college-opens-in-minneapolis-offering-higher-education-and-cultural-connection/600371661/ |url-status=live}} The large, principally online universities Capella University{{cite web |url=https://www.capella.edu/contact-us/ |title=We're here to help you |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Capella University |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302232512/https://www.capella.edu/contact-us/ |url-status=live}} and Walden University{{cite web |url=https://www.waldenu.edu/contact-us |title=Contact Us |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Walden University |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302232513/https://www.waldenu.edu/contact-us |url-status=live}} are both headquartered in the city. The public four-year Metropolitan State University{{cite web |url=https://www.metrostate.edu/about/locations/minneapolis |title=Minneapolis |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Metropolitan State University |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302231920/https://www.metrostate.edu/about/locations/minneapolis |url-status=live}} and the private four-year University of St. Thomas{{cite web |url=https://www.stthomas.edu/about/our-campuses/ |title=Our Campuses |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=University of St. Thomas |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302231915/https://www.stthomas.edu/about/our-campuses/ |url-status=live}} are post-secondary institutions based elsewhere that have campuses in Minneapolis. The city has more than twenty-five licensed career schools.{{cite web |url=https://www.ohe.state.mn.us/sPages/141All.cfm?sort=city |title=Licensed Career Schools |access-date=March 2, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Office of Higher Education |archive-date=March 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230303000132/https://www.ohe.state.mn.us/sPages/141All.cfm?sort=city |url-status=live}}

{{main|Media in Minneapolis–Saint Paul}}

As of March 2024, Minnesota Newspaper Association members who publish in Minneapolis include Insight News, Finance & Commerce, Longfellow Nokomis Messenger, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Minnesota Women's Press, North News, Northeaster, Southwest Connector, Star Tribune, and St. Paul – Midway Como Frogtown Monitor.{{cite web |url=https://mna.org/assets/2024/03/MNADirectoryMar2024.pdf |title=Minnesota Newspaper Directory |date=March 2024 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |publisher=Minnesota Newspaper Association |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315022205/https://mna.org/assets/2024/03/MNADirectoryMar2024.pdf |url-status=live}} La Prensa de Minnesota,{{cite news |title=Hutchinson gets an endorsement and some scheduled criticism |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2006/10/16/hutchinson-gets-an-endorsement-and-some-scheduled-criticism |access-date=March 20, 2024 |last=Scheck |first=Tom |date=October 16, 2006 |work=MPR News |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320202943/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2006/10/16/hutchinson-gets-an-endorsement-and-some-scheduled-criticism |url-status=live}} Vida y Sabor,{{cite web |title=Listening and Learning through Crises |url=https://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/outreach/lltc-engagement-summary_final.pdf |access-date=March 20, 2024 |date=Summer 2020 |publisher=Metro Transit |archive-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219115239/https://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/outreach/lltc-engagement-summary_final.pdf |url-status=live}} and The American Jewish World{{cite news |url=https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2014/07/after-four-failures-rabbi-samuel-deinard-found-success-american-jewish-world/ |title=After four failures, Rabbi Samuel Deinard found success with 'American Jewish World' |last=Weber |first=Laura |date=July 1, 2014 |access-date=March 22, 2024 |work=MinnPost}} are published in the city.{{sfn|Cornell|2016|p=298}} Other papers are Southwest Voices,{{cite news |title=Minneapolis neighborhood news site Southwest Voices adding outlet covering downtown |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/06/22/southwest-voices-downtown-minneapolis.html |first=Mark |last=Reilly |date=June 22, 2023 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |work=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713222134/https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2023/06/22/southwest-voices-downtown-minneapolis.html |url-status=live}} Streets.mn,{{cite web |url=https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/9/12/is-this-new-high-school-really-an-upgrade |title=Is this new high school really an upgrade? |last=Steele |first=Matt |date=September 15, 2016 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |work=Strong Towns |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320144533/https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/9/12/is-this-new-high-school-really-an-upgrade |url-status=live}} Bring Me The News,{{cite news |title=Why the Pohlads bought BringMeTheNews — and what they're going to do with it |url=https://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/08/why-pohlads-bought-bringmethenews-and-what-theyre-going-do-it/ |last=Lambert |first=Brian |date=August 7, 2015 |access-date=March 21, 2024 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202181904/https://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/08/why-pohlads-bought-bringmethenews-and-what-theyre-going-do-it/ |url-status=live}} Racket,{{cite news |url=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/racket-a-new-alternative-news-site-from-former-citypages-editors-launches-this-month |title=Racket, a new alternative news site from former City Pages editors, launches this month |date=August 2, 2021 |last=McLaughlin |first=Shaymus |work=Bring Me The News |access-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119112958/https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/racket-a-new-alternative-news-site-from-former-citypages-editors-launches-this-month |url-status=live}} MinnPost,{{cite web |url=https://www.c-span.org/organization/?102979/MinnPost |title=MinnPost |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321195000/https://www.c-span.org/organization/?102979/MinnPost |url-status=live}} and Minnesota Daily.{{cite news |title=After 120+ Years, the Minnesota Daily Quietly Killed Its Print Edition |url=https://racketmn.com/after-120-years-the-minnesota-daily-quietly-killed-its-print-edition |publisher=Racket |date=October 19, 2022 |last=Boller |first=Jay |access-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606085733/https://racketmn.com/after-120-years-the-minnesota-daily-quietly-killed-its-print-edition |url-status=live}}

Media Tales called Minnesota a "plentiful" source of national trade magazines; companies in Minneapolis publish Foodservice News and Franchise Times.{{sfn|Keller|O'Meara|2007|p=86}} Some other magazines published in the city are American Craft;{{cite web |publisher=American Craft Council |title=Magazine |url=https://www.craftcouncil.org/membership/magazine |access-date=April 29, 2023 |archive-date=April 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429184027/https://www.craftcouncil.org/membership/magazine |url-status=live}} business publications Enterprise Minnesota{{cite news |url=https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/minnesota-manufacturing-growth-year-projected |date=June 19, 2017 |title=Minnesota manufacturing: Growth year projected |work=Brainerd Dispatch |access-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331103916/https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/minnesota-manufacturing-growth-year-projected |url-status=live}} and Twin Cities Business;{{cite web |url=https://citymag.org/biz_mags/twin-cities-business/ |title=Twin Cities Business |publisher=City and Regional Magazine Association |access-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320154141/https://citymag.org/biz_mags/twin-cities-business/ |url-status=live}} the literary journal Rain Taxi;{{cite web |publisher=Community of Literary Magazines and Presses |title=Rain Taxi |url=https://www.clmp.org/readers/publisher/rain-taxi/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207074212/https://www.clmp.org/readers/publisher/rain-taxi/ |url-status=live}} university student publications Great River Review,{{cite web |title=Great River Review |url=https://poets.org/listing/great-river-review |access-date=March 20, 2024 |publisher=Academy of American Poets |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320155346/https://poets.org/listing/great-river-review |url-status=live}} Minnesota Journal of International Law,{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-03085 |title=University of Minnesota Law School Overview |access-date=March 22, 2024 |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |archive-date=December 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215121401/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-03085 |url-status=live}} and Minnesota Law Review;{{cite web |url=https://libcat.colorado.edu/Record/lb689094 |title=Minnesota law review [electronic resource] |publisher=University of Colorado |access-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322152528/https://libcat.colorado.edu/Record/lb689094 |url-status=live}} and professional magazines Architecture Minnesota,{{cite news |title=Archictecture Minnesota: Weisman Art Museum by Frank Gehry |url=https://www.minnpost.com/minnclips/2012/01/archictecture-minnesota-weisman-art-museum-frank-gehry/ |access-date=March 20, 2024 |work=MinnPost |archive-date=December 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205015951/https://www.minnpost.com/minnclips/2012/01/archictecture-minnesota-weisman-art-museum-frank-gehry/ |url-status=live}} Bench & Bar,{{cite web |url=https://primo.lib.umn.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01UMN_INST:TWINCITIES&docid=alma9930685810001701&context=L |title=Bench & bar of Minnesota |access-date=March 22, 2024 |publisher=University of Minnesota |archive-date=March 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240322152546/https://primo.lib.umn.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01UMN_INST:TWINCITIES&docid=alma9930685810001701&context=L |url-status=live}} and Minnesota Medicine.{{cite web |title=Research shows raising the tobacco sale age would keep Minnesota kids from starting. |url=https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/tobacco/21/index.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Health |archive-date=October 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002075347/https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/tobacco/21/index.html |url-status=live}}

In 2023, Nielsen found the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area to be the 15th-largest designated market area which is down from 14th in 2022.{{cite web |url=https://www.nab.org/documents/resources/2022-2023DMARANKS.xlsx |format=Excel |title=Comparisons of 2021–2022 and 2022–2023 Market Ranks |access-date=February 21, 2023 |publisher=National Association of Broadcasters |archive-date=February 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230224114653/https://www.nab.org/documents/resources/2022-2023DMARANKS.xlsx |url-status=live}} Of the 89 FM and 57 AM stations that can be heard in the city, 17 FM stations and 11 AM stations are licensed in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://fccdata.org/?facid=&call=&ccode=1&city=&state=&country=US&zip=55401 |title=ZIP Code: 55401, Location: MINNEAPOLIS MN |access-date=October 22, 2024 |publisher=REC Networks |work=FCCdata.org}} The Twin Cities have 1,742,530 TV homes.{{cite web |publisher=Media Market Map |url=https://www.mediamarketmap.com/minneapolis-st-paul-designated-market-media-map/ |title=Minneapolis-St. Paul DMA Map In 2023 |date=May 25, 2021 |access-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221235600/https://www.mediamarketmap.com/minneapolis-st-paul-designated-market-media-map/ |url-status=live}} TV Guide lists 151 TV channels for Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://www.tvguide.com/listings/zip/55401-minneapolis-mn/ |title=Minneapolis, MN – TV Schedule |access-date=February 21, 2023 |work=TV Guide |publisher=Fandom |archive-date=February 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222000110/https://www.tvguide.com/listings/zip/55401-minneapolis-mn/ |url-status=live}}

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For all trips by all members of a household in 2019, Metropolitan Council data showed that the most common means of transportation was driving alone (40 percent), the least common was bicycling (3 percent), and others were carpooling (28 percent), walking (16 percent), and public transit (13 percent). The city's goal is that by 2030, 60 percent of trips are taken without a car, or 35 percent by walking and biking and 25 percent by transit. The city aims to reduce vehicle miles traveled by 1.8 percent per year.{{cite web |url=https://go.minneapolismn.gov/download_file/view/721/360 |title=City of Minneapolis Transportation Action Plan |access-date=August 27, 2024 |date=December 4, 2020 |pages=37–38 |publisher=City of Minneapolis}}

A division of the Metropolitan Council, Metro Transit operates public transportation in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.{{cite web |url=https://www.metrotransit.org/about-Metro-transit |title=About Metro Transit |access-date=April 18, 2023 |publisher=Metro Transit |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418170436/https://www.metrotransit.org/about-Metro-transit |url-status=live}} As of 2023, the system has two light rail lines, five bus rapid transit (BRT) lines, and one commuter rail line. A fleet of 736 buses serves 10,745 bus stops.{{cite web |url=https://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/blog/2023_factbook_letter_new_final_final.pdf |title=Metro Transit Facts |date=2023 |access-date=July 8, 2024 |publisher=Metropolitan Council}} As of 2021, riders of Metro Transit system-wide were 55 percent persons of color. The system provided nearly 45 million rides in 2023, a sixteen-percent increase over the previous year.{{cite news |title=Metro Transit ridership grows in 2023, but officials say they need help to continue the trend |first=Jason |last=Rantala |date=March 3, 2024 |access-date=July 10, 2024 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/metro-transit-ridership-grows-in-2023-but-officials-say-they-need-help-to-continue-the-trend/ |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Broadcasting}} In 2023, bus service had returned to 90 percent of its ridership before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Metro Blue Line light rail line connects the Mall of America and Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Bloomington to downtown,{{cite web |url=https://www.mspairport.com/directions/ground-transportation/light-rail-transit |title=Light Rail Transit |access-date=July 10, 2024 |publisher=Metropolitan Airports Commission}} and the Green Line travels from downtown through the University of Minnesota campus to downtown Saint Paul.{{cite web |url=https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation/Projects/Light-Rail-Projects/Central-Corridor.aspx |title=The METRO Green Line |access-date=July 10, 2024 |publisher=Metropolitan Council}} A Blue Line extension to the northwest suburbs is scheduled to be built and completed by 2030.{{cite web |title=About the Blue Line Extension |url=https://metrocouncil.org/Transportation/Projects/Light-Rail-Projects/METRO-Blue-Line-Extension/About.aspx |access-date=July 10, 2024 |publisher=Metropolitan Council}} A Green Line extension is planned to connect downtown with the southwestern suburbs.{{efn|As of early 2024, the extension was nine years behind schedule and US$1.5 billion over budget.{{cite news |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/04/06/as-green-line-project-languishes-some-lawmakers-want-future-light-rail-in-state-hands |title=As Green Line extension languishes, some lawmakers want future light rail in state hands |first1=Cathy |last1=Wurzer |first2=Gracie |last2=Stockton |date=April 6, 2024 |work=MPR News}}}} BRT lines are 25 percent faster than regular bus lines because riders pay before boarding, stops are limited, and sometimes they employ signal prioritization.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis Wants to Be the 'Bus Rapid Transit Capital of North America' |url=https://www.governing.com/community/minneapolis-wants-to-be-the-bus-rapid-transit-capital-of-north-america |author=Brey, Jared |date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=December 10, 2022 |work=Governing |publisher=e.Republic |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209194733/https://www.governing.com/community/minneapolis-wants-to-be-the-bus-rapid-transit-capital-of-north-america |url-status=live}} The newest BRT line, the D Line, runs along one of Minnesota's most used bus lines, the {{convert|18|mi|km||adj=on}} route{{nbsp}}5, where a quarter of households do not have access to a car. The {{Convert|40|mile|abbr=out|adj=on}} Northstar Commuter rail runs from Big Lake, Minnesota, to downtown Minneapolis. Commuter rides decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as of 2023, service cut back to four from twelve daily trips.{{cite news |title=Met Council study finds no easy answers to ridership woes on Northstar commuter rail |last=Moore |first=Janet |date=March 14, 2023 |access-date=April 18, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/met-council-study-finds-no-easy-answers-to-ridership-woes-on-northstar-commuter-rail/600258844/ |archive-date=April 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418180046/https://www.startribune.com/met-council-study-finds-no-easy-answers-to-ridership-woes-on-northstar-commuter-rail/600258844/ |url-status=live}}

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Hundreds of homeless people nightly sought shelter on Green Line trains until overnight service was cut back in 2019.{{cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Janet |title='Transit is not a shelter': Green Line curtails all-night service |url=https://www.startribune.com/green-line-service-cutback-may-displace-homeless-riders/552734412/ |access-date=January 16, 2021 |work=Star Tribune |date=August 19, 2019 |archive-date=August 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815184833/https://www.startribune.com/green-line-service-cutback-may-displace-homeless-riders/552734412/ |url-status=live}} Short more than a hundred police officers, in 2022, the Metro Council hired community groups to help police light rail stations; these non-profits can guide passengers to mental health services and shelters.{{cite news |title=Crime jumped 32% on Metro Transit trains, buses in 2023 |last=Moore |first=Janet |date=February 5, 2024 |access-date=February 7, 2024 |url=https://www.startribune.com/crime-jumped-25-on-metro-transit-trains-buses-in-2023/600341173/ |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=February 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206183740/https://www.startribune.com/crime-jumped-25-on-metro-transit-trains-buses-in-2023/600341173/ |url-status=live}} In partnership with a private security company in 2024, Metro Transit improved security and safety with 24 trip agents who ride the light rail lines each day and work with transit police and community officers.{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/metro-transit-light-rail-train-trip-agents/ |title=Metro Transit "TRIP Agents" to start riding light rail trains in bid to boost safety |last1=Swanson |first1=Stephen |last2=Mitchell |first2=Kirsten |date=February 22, 2024 |access-date=August 12, 2024 |work=CBS News |publisher=CBS Broadcasting}}

In 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi, which was overloaded with {{Convert|300|ST|kg}} of repair materials, collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The bridge was rebuilt in 14 months.{{cite news |title=10 Years After Bridge Collapse, America Is Still Crumbling |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540669701/10-years-after-bridge-collapse-america-is-still-crumbling |date=August 1, 2017 |author=Schaper, David |access-date=January 18, 2021 |work=NPR |archive-date=August 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823233552/https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540669701/10-years-after-bridge-collapse-america-is-still-crumbling |url-status=live}}

Evie Carshare, owned by Minneapolis and Saint Paul since 2022, is a fleet of 145 electric cars available for one-way trips in a {{convert|35|sqmi|sqkm|adj=on}} area of the Twin Cities.{{cite report |url=https://hourcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2022-HOURCAR-Evie-Impact-Report-Online-FINAL.pdf |title=Impact Report |date=2022 |access-date=November 18, 2023 |publisher=HOURCAR |archive-date=December 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202140712/http://hourcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2022-HOURCAR-Evie-Impact-Report-Online-FINAL.pdf |url-status=live}} In warm weather, Lime and Veo have shared electric bikes and scooters for rent at sixty mobility hubs located on transit lines; riders may end their trip anywhere in the city.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2024/may/bikes-scooters/ |title=Shared bike and scooter season returns to Minneapolis |access-date=July 26, 2024 |date=May 16, 2024 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524082843/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/news/2024/may/bikes-scooters/ |url-status=live}}

Minneapolis has {{convert|16|mi|km}} of on-street protected bikeways, {{convert|98|mi|km}} of bike lanes, and {{convert|101|mi|km}} of off-street bikeways and trails.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/bicycling/ |title=Minneapolis bicycling facts |access-date=December 12, 2022 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212220742/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/bicycling/ |url-status=live}} Off-street facilities include the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, Midtown Greenway, Little Earth Trail, Hiawatha LRT Trail, Kenilworth Trail, and Cedar Lake Trail.{{cite web |title=Trails & Parkways |url=https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/trails__parkways/ |access-date=December 14, 2020 |publisher=Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816132636/https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/trails__parkways/ |url-status=live}} The Minneapolis Skyway System, {{convert|9.5|mi|km}} of enclosed pedestrian bridges called skyways, links 80 city blocks downtown with access to second-floor restaurants, retailers, government, sports facilities, doctor's offices, and other businesses that are open on weekdays.{{cite web |publisher=Meet Minneapolis |title=Your Guide to the Minneapolis Skyway System |url=https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-skyway-guide/ |access-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-date=August 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801114806/https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-skyway-guide/ |url-status=live}} Fifteen commercial passenger airlines serve Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport (MSP).{{cite web |url=https://www.mspairport.com/flights-and-airlines |access-date=April 22, 2023 |title=Flights & Airlines |publisher=Metropolitan Airports Commission |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422150550/https://www.mspairport.com/flights-and-airlines |url-status=live}} MSP is the headquarters of Sun Country Airlines.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on track for third annual passenger record in a row |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2019/12/12/minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport-on-track.html |work=Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal |publisher=American City Business Journals |author=Thomas, Dylan |date=December 12, 2019 |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604210509/https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2019/12/12/minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport-on-track.html |url-status=live}} After it merged with Northwest Airlines in 2009, Delta Air Lines flew 80 percent of the airport's traffic,{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/delta-airlines/ |title=Delta Air Lines |access-date=April 22, 2023 |publisher=Meet Minneapolis |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422145648/https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/delta-airlines/ |url-status=live}} and MSP was Delta's second-largest US hub.{{cite news |title=Delta's new station chief works to build back MSP hub after pandemic |url=https://www.startribune.com/deltas-new-station-chief-works-to-build-back-msp-hub-after-pandemic/600069969/ |last=Painter |first=Kristen Leigh |date=June 19, 2021 |access-date=April 22, 2023 |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422150523/https://www.startribune.com/deltas-new-station-chief-works-to-build-back-msp-hub-after-pandemic/600069969/ |url-status=live}}

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Xcel Energy supplies electricity,{{cite web |title=About the Partnership |url=https://mplscleanenergypartnership.org/about/ |access-date=April 19, 2023 |publisher=Minneapolis Clean Energy Partnership |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419195348/https://mplscleanenergypartnership.org/about/ |url-status=live}} and CenterPoint Energy provides gas. The water supply is managed by four watershed districts that correspond with the Mississippi and three streams that are river tributaries.{{cite report |date=December 14, 2021 |pages=3–11, 3–25 |title=Water Resources Management Plan |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406224257/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/Water-Resources-Management-Plan-Report.pdf |url-status=live}}

The city has nineteen fire stations.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/fire/fire-station-locations/ |title=Fire station locations |access-date=July 20, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720152748/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/fire/fire-station-locations/ |url-status=live}} Requests for non-emergency information or service requests can be made through Minneapolis 311. The call center operates in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali, and offers 220 language options.{{cite web |url=https://stories.opengov.com/y0fJMflmU/published/undefined |title=311 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |via=OpenGov |access-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906180902/https://stories.opengov.com/y0fJMflmU/published/undefined |url-status=live}} Email, TTY, text, voice, and a mobile app can access the center.{{cite web |url=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/contact-us/ |title=Contact 311 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906181135/https://www.minneapolismn.gov/contact-us/ |url-status=live}}

The Minneapolis department of public works is responsible for services including snow plowing, solid waste removal, traffic and parking, water treatment, transportation planning and maintenance, and fleet services for the city.{{cite web |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/public-works/info/ |title=What we do |access-date=August 20, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=August 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820143820/https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/public-works/info/ |url-status=live}} Among its engineering functions, the department was increasing the capacity of a {{convert|4200|ft|m|adj=on}} storm water tunnel system {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=off}} under Washington to Chicago avenues and had completed 97 percent of the excavation phase and 41 percent of the lining phase as of August 2023.{{cite press release |url=https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPLS/bulletins/3698229 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |via=Granicus |access-date=August 20, 2023 |title=Minneapolis Central City Tunnel: Project overview |date=August 7, 2023 |archive-date=August 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820143820/https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MPLS/bulletins/3698229 |url-status=live}} Designed for downtown's concrete landscape, the system will drain runoff into the Mississippi in case of a 100-year storm.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/a-peek-down-into-the-new-tunnels-below-minneapolis/600196305/ |last=Vue |first=Katelyn |date=August 6, 2022 |access-date=August 20, 2023 |title=Underground army tunnels under downtown to expand Minneapolis stormwater system |work=Star Tribune |archive-date=August 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820151954/https://www.startribune.com/a-peek-down-into-the-new-tunnels-below-minneapolis/600196305/ |url-status=live}}

Downtown Improvement District ambassadors, who are identified by their blue-and-green-yellow fluorescent jackets, daily patrol a 120-block area of downtown to greet and assist visitors, remove trash, monitor property, and call police when they are needed. The ambassador program is a public-private partnership that is paid for by a special downtown tax district.{{Cite news |last=St. Anthony |first=Neal |date=May 2, 2020 |title='Ambassadors' ready downtown for gradual return of workers with long list of projects |work=Star Tribune |url=https://www.startribune.com/mpls-downtown-ambassadors-prepare-for-gradual-return-of-workers-visitors/570101112/ |access-date=February 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129011120/https://www.startribune.com/mpls-downtown-ambassadors-prepare-for-gradual-return-of-workers-visitors/570101112/ |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |url-status=live}}

{{See also|COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota|COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota#Economy}}

File:051907-003-HCMC.jpg has the state's busiest emergency room.{{cite news |url=https://www.startribune.com/inside-hcmc-minnesotas-busiest-er-the-trauma-of-dealing-with-trauma-never-stops/600304582/ |title=Inside Minnesota's busiest ER, the trauma of dealing with trauma never stops |last=Forgrave |first=Reid |date=September 15, 2023 |access-date=September 15, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=September 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230917222235/https://www.startribune.com/inside-hcmc-minnesotas-busiest-er-the-trauma-of-dealing-with-trauma-never-stops/600304582/ |url-status=live}}]]

Hennepin County Medical Center, a public teaching hospital and Level I trauma center,{{cite web |title=Hennepin Healthcare |url=https://mn.gov/projsrch/hennepin-healthcare.html |publisher=State of Minnesota |work=Minnesota Project Search |access-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419181104/https://mn.gov/projsrch/hennepin-healthcare.html |url-status=live}} opened in 1887 as City Hospital.{{cite web |title=The History of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin |url=https://hennepinem.com/emergency-department/history/ |publisher=Hennepin County Medical Center |access-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203223034/https://hennepinem.com/emergency-department/history/ |url-status=live}} The city is also served by Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Children's Minnesota, and University of Minnesota and veterans medical centers.{{cite web |title=Individual Hospital Statistics for Minnesota |url=https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_MN.html |publisher=American Hospital Directory, Inc. |date=September 26, 2022 |access-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203203527/https://www.ahd.com/states/hospital_MN.html |url-status=live}}

Cardiac surgery was developed at the University of Minnesota's Variety Club Heart Hospital.{{sfn|Jeffrey|2001|loc=p. 59}} Surgeon F. John Lewis successfully repaired a child's congenital heart defect in 1952.{{sfn|Goss|2005|p=S2210}} By 1957, more than 200 patients—most of whom were children—had survived open-heart surgery.{{sfn|Jeffrey|2001|loc=p. 61}} Working with surgeon C. Walton Lillehei, Medtronic began to build portable and implantable cardiac pacemakers about this time.{{sfn|Jeffrey|2001|loc=p. 65}}

In 2022, opioid overdoses killed 231 persons in Minneapolis.{{cite web |url=https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/government/departments/health/current-concerns/opioids/ |title=Opioids |access-date=July 10, 2024 |publisher=City of Minneapolis: Minneapolis Health Department}} For the state in 2021, Black persons were three times and Native American persons were ten times more likely to die from an opioid overdose than White persons.{{cite web |url=https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/opioids/opioid-dashboard |title=Drug Overdose Dashboard |access-date=October 6, 2023 |publisher=Minnesota Department of Health |archive-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001161615/https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/opioids/opioid-dashboard |url-status=live}}{{efn|A Sahan Journal investigation covering the state from 2019 to 2023 found that "Native Americans were at least 15 times", Somali Minnesotans were twice as likely, and "Latino Minnesotans were 1.5 times" as likely to die from opioid overdoses than White persons.{{cite news |url=https://sahanjournal.com/health/minnesota-opioid-fentanyl-overdose-deaths-race/ |work=Sahan Journal |first2=Cynthia |last2=Tu |first1=Sheila |last1=Mulrooney Eldred |title=Overlooked: Who suffers the most from the opioid epidemic in Minnesota? |date=July 2024 |access-date=July 10, 2024}}}} The 2024 city budget added funds for the Turning Point treatment center, which provides care specifically for African Americans. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa is building a culturally sensitive treatment center for opioid and fentanyl addiction. Minneapolis transferred two city-owned properties to the Red Lake Nation for the facility.{{cite news |title=Minneapolis announces plans to transfer land to Red Lake Nation |url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-announces-plans-to-transfer-land-to-red-lake-nation/600306579/ |last=Jackson |first=Zoë |date=September 21, 2023 |access-date=October 5, 2023 |newspaper=Star Tribune |archive-date=October 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006211553/https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-announces-plans-to-transfer-land-to-red-lake-nation/600306579/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/MarkedAgenda/Council/4164 |title=Marked Agenda: Minneapolis City Council Agenda, Regular Meeting |date=October 5, 2023 |access-date=October 5, 2023 |publisher=City of Minneapolis |archive-date=October 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006211554/https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/MarkedAgenda/Council/4164 |url-status=live}}

The Mashkiki Waakaa'igan Pharmacy—funded by the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa—dispenses free prescription drugs and culturally sensitive care to members of any federally recognized tribes living in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, regardless of insurance status.{{cite news |title=Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City |url=https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/tribal-pharmacy-native-americans-minneapolis/ |last1=Huggins |first1=Katherine |last2=Mueller |first2=Julia |date=May 24, 2022 |access-date=May 13, 2023 |work=KFF Health News |publisher=KFF |archive-date=May 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230513135728/https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/tribal-pharmacy-native-americans-minneapolis/ |url-status=live}}

{{Main|List of people from Minneapolis}}

Minneapolis's sister cities are:{{cite web |title=Sister Cities |url=https://www.minneapolis.org/about-us/sister-cities/ |publisher=City of Minneapolis |access-date=June 14, 2020 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504142604/https://www.minneapolis.org/about-us/sister-cities/ |url-status=live}}

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• {{flagdeco|SOM}} Bosaso, Somalia (2014)
• {{flagdeco|MEX}} Cuernavaca, Mexico (2008)
• {{flagdeco|KEN}} Eldoret, Kenya (2000)
• {{flagdeco|CHN}} Harbin, China (1992)
• {{flagdeco|JPN}} Ibaraki, Japan (1980)
• {{flagdeco|FIN}} Kuopio, Finland (1972)
• {{flagdeco|IRQ}} Najaf, Iraq (2009)
• {{flagdeco|RUS}} Novosibirsk, Russia (1988)
• {{flagdeco|CHI}} Santiago, Chile (1961)
• {{flagdeco|FRA}} Tours, France (1991)
• {{flagdeco|SWE}} Uppsala, Sweden (2000)
• {{flagdeco|CAN}} Winnipeg, Canada (1973)

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{{Portal|Cities|Geography|Minnesota|North America|United States}}

• List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hennepin County, Minnesota
• USS Minneapolis, 4 ships (including 2 as Minneapolis–Saint Paul)

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• {{cite book |first1=John O. |last1=Anfinson |first2=Thomas |last2=Madigan |first3=Drew M. |last3=Forsberg |first4=Patrick |last4=Nunnally |title=River of history: a historic resources study |url=https://www.nps.gov/miss/learn/historyculture/river-of-hisory-chapter-6.htm |chapter=St. Anthony Falls: Timber, Flour and Electricity |publisher=St. Paul District, U.S. Corps of Engineers |date=2003 |access-date=April 21, 2023}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Atwater |editor1-first=Isaac |editor-link=Isaac Atwater |title=History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota |publisher=Munsell & Company |date=1893 |oclc=22047580 |volume=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/historycityminn00atwagoog |ref=none}}

:* {{cite book |last1=Baldwin |first1=Rufus J. |chapter=Early Settlement |title=History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota |pages=29–48 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historycityminn00atwagoog/page/29/mode/2up |date=1893 |ref={{harvid|Baldwin|1893a}}}}

• {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTpnyr2Z0moC |last1=Barlow |first1=Philip |last2=Silk |first2=Mark |title=Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America's Common Denominator? |publisher=Rowman Altamira |date=2004 |isbn=978-0-7591-0631-4}}
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• {{cite book |title=Heyday: 35 Years of Music in Minneapolis |first2=Danny (text) |last2=Sigelman |last1=Corrigan |first1=Daniel (photos) |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-68134-123-1 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press}}
• {{cite book |title=Moon. Minneapolis & St. Paul |last=Cornell |first=Tricia |date=2016 |publisher=Avalon Travel |isbn=978-1-63121-272-7 |edition=3rd}}
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• {{cite book |last=DeCarlo |first=Peter |title=Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History, Newly Annotated |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-68134-171-2 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press}}
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• {{cite book |title=An Introduction to Economic History |last=Gras |first=Norman Scott Brien |date=1922 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |isbn=978-0-598-78089-8}}
• {{cite book |last=Gray |first=James |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |date=1954 |lccn=54-10286 |title=Business without Boundary: The Story of General Mills}}
• {{cite book |chapter=Fifty-five Theaters in the Twin Cities Metro |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |date=September 15, 2015 |title=Offstage Voices: Life in Twin Cities Theater |last=Guilfoyle |first=Peg |isbn=978-0-87351-971-7}}
• {{cite book|title=Their Splendid Legacy: The First 100 Years of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts|last=Hess|first=Jeffrey A.|date=1985|publisher=Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts|oclc=1302542392|isbn=978-0-912964-17-1|url=https://archive.org/details/theirsplendidleg0000hess/page/22/mode/2up|via=Internet Archive}}
• {{cite book |editor-last=Holmquist |editor-first=June D. |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |date=1981 |isbn=0-87351-231-6 |ref=none}}

:* {{cite book |last=Taylor |first=David Vassar |chapter=The Blacks |pages=73–91 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups}}

:* {{cite book |last=Vecoli |first=Rudolph J. |author-link=Rudolph J. Vecoli |chapter=The Italians |pages=449–471 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups}}

:* {{cite book |last=Saloutos |first=Theodore |author-link=Theodore Saloutos |chapter=The Greeks |pages=472–488 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups}}

:* {{cite book |last=Mason |first=Sarah R. |chapter=The Chinese |pages=531–545 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups |ref={{harvid|Mason|1981a}}}}

:* {{cite book |last=Mason |first=Sarah R. |chapter=The Filipinos |pages=546–557 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups |ref={{harvid|Mason|1981b}}}}

:* {{cite book |last=Albert |first=Michael |chapter=The Japanese |pages=558–571 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups}}

:* {{cite book |last=Mason |first=Sarah R. |chapter=The Koreans |pages=572–579 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups |ref={{harvid|Mason|1981c}}}}

:* {{cite book |last=Mason |first=Sarah R. |chapter=The Indochinese |pages=580–592 |date=1981 |title=They Chose Minnesota: A Survey of the States Ethnic Groups |ref={{harvid|Mason|1981d}}}}

• {{cite book |last=Jeffrey |first=Kirk |title=Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |date=2001 |isbn=978-0-8018-6579-4}}
• {{cite book |title=The Falls of St. Anthony: The Waterfall That Built Minneapolis |last=Kane |first=Lucile M. |date=1987 |orig-date=1966 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-205-3}}
• {{cite book |title=Minnesota Logging Railroads |last=King |first=Frank Alexander |date=2003 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-4084-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotalogging0000king}}
• {{cite book |title=Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants |last1=Kimmerer |first1=Robin Wall |last2=Smith |first2=Monique Gray |author1-link=Robin Wall Kimmerer |publisher=Zest Books |date=2022 |isbn=978-1-7284-5899-1}}
• {{cite book |title=Media Tales: Stories of Minnesota TV, Radio, Publications, and Personalities |last2=O'Meara |first2=Sheri |last1=Keller |first1=Martin |isbn=978-0-9787956-2-7 |publisher=D Media |date=2007}}
• {{cite book |title=The White Pine Industry in Minnesota, A History |last=Larson |first=Agnes Mathilda |author-link=Agnes Larson |isbn=978-0-8166-5149-8 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |orig-date=1972 |date=2007}}
• {{cite book |title=Minnesota: A History |last=Lass |first=William E. |date=2000 |edition=2nd |isbn=978-0-393-31971-2 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company}}
• {{cite book |author=League of Women Voters |author-link=League of Women Voters |date=December 2002 |title=Immigration in Minnesota: Challenges and Opportunities |publisher=The League of Women Voters Education Fund |isbn=978-1-877889-33-2}}
• {{cite book |first1=Jerome |last1=Liebling |author1-link=Jerome Liebling |first2=Donal MacLachlan |last2=Morrison |title=The Face of Minneapolis |publisher=Dillon Press |date=1966 |oclc=904082681}}
• {{cite book |title=The Language of Hunter-Gatherers |isbn=978-1-107-00368-2 |date=2020 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |editor1-first=Patrick |editor1-last=McConvell |editor2-first=Richard A. |editor2-last=Rhodes |editor3-first=Tom |editor3-last=Güldemann}}
• {{cite book |author=The Minneapolis '76 Bicentennial Commission |date=1976 |title=Minneapolis Frontiers, Firsts & Futures: A Bicentennial Commemorative Guide to the History of the City of Minneapolis |publisher=The Minneapolis '76 Bicentennial Commission |oclc=3804178}}
• {{cite book |title=Selling the Mill City: A Postcard Book |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |year=2003 |last=Minnesota Historical Society |author-link=Minnesota Historical Society |isbn=978-0-87351-460-6}}
• {{cite book |last=Millett |first=Larry |author-link=Larry Millett |title=AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul |date=2007 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-540-5}}
• {{cite book |title=Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry |last=Misa |first=Thomas J. |date=2013 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-8836-4 |doi=10.5749/minnesota/9780816683314.001.0001}}
• {{cite book |last=Cleveland |first=H. W. S. |author-link=Horace Cleveland |contributor1-last=Nadenicek |contributor2-last=Neckar |contributor1-first=Daniel J. |contributor2-first=Lance M. |contribution=Introduction |title=Landscape Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West; with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains |date=April 2002 |orig-date=1873 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History |isbn=978-1-55849-330-8}}
• {{cite book |last=Nathanson |first=Iric |title=Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century: The Growth of an American City |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-725-6 |date=2010 |url=https://archive.org/details/minneapolisintwe0000nath/ |url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book |title=The Eye for Innovation: Recognizing Possibilities and Managing the Creative Enterprise |last=Price |first=Robert M. |author-link=Robert M. Price (business executive) |date=November 11, 2005 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10877-4}}
• {{cite book |title=The Complete Book of Colleges |year=2014 |author=The Princeton Review |author-link=The Princeton Review |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0-8041-2520-8}}
• {{cite book |title=A Dakota-English dictionary |last1=Riggs |first1=Stephen Return |editor-last=Dorsey |editor-first=James Owen |author-link1=Stephen Return Riggs |editor-link=James Owen Dorsey |publisher=Borealis Books |orig-date=1st pub. US Government Publishing Office, 1890 |date=1992 |isbn=978-0-87351-282-4}}
• {{cite book |last=Risjord |first=Norman K. |author-link=Norman K. Risjord |title=A Popular History of Minnesota |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-87351-532-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0000risj}}
• {{cite book |title=City of Parks: The Story of Minneapolis Parks |last=Smith |first=David C. |date=2008 |publisher=Foundation for Minneapolis Parks |isbn=978-0-615-19535-3}}
• {{cite book |last=Spangler |first=Earl |title=The Negro in Minnesota |publisher=T. S. Denison |date=1961 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b538878&seq=7 |oclc=644156212}}
• {{cite book |title=City of Lakes: An Illustrated History of Minneapolis |last=Stipanovich |first=Joseph |publisher=Windsor Publications |isbn=978-0-89781-048-7 |date=1982}}
• {{cite book |title=African Americans in Minnesota |last=Taylor |first=David Vassar |date=2002 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-653-2}}
• {{cite book |title=Ojibwe in Minnesota |last=Treuer |first=Anton |author-link=Anton Treuer |date=2010 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |isbn=978-0-87351-768-3}}
• {{cite book |title=American City: A Rank-and-file History |first=Charles Rumford |last=Walker |author-link=Charles Rumford Walker |publisher= Farrar & Rinehart |date=1937 |oclc=480952}}
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• {{cite book |title=An English-Dakota Dictionary. |publisher=Borealis Books |orig-date=1st pub. American Tract Society 1902 |last=Williamson |first=John P. (compiler) |author-link=John Poage Williamson |isbn=978-0-87351-283-1 |date=1992}}
• {{cite book |title=North Country: The Making of Minnesota |last=Wingerd |first=Mary Lethert |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-4868-9 |date=2010}}
• {{cite book |title=Regional Theatre: The Revolutionary Stage |last=Zeigler |first=Joseph Wesley |date=1973 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-1142-7}}

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• {{cite journal |last=Clemmons |first=L.M. |date=2005 |title='We Will Talk of Nothing Else': Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837 |journal=Great Plains Quarterly |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=173–185 |jstor=23533608 |issn=0275-7664}}
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• {{cite journal |title=Flour power: the significance of flour milling at the falls |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/58/v58i05-06p270-285.pdf |last1=Danbom |first1=David B. |author-link=David B. Danbom |journal=Minnesota History |pages=270–285 |volume=58 |issue=5–6 |date=2003 |jstor=20188363 |archive-date=November 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101194025/http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/58/v58i05-06p270-285.pdf |url-status=live |issn=0026-5497}}
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• {{cite journal |title=One Flag, One School, One Language: Minnesota's Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s |last1=Hatle |first1=Elizabeth Dorsey |first2=Nancy M. |last2=Vaillancourt |date=Winter 2009–2010 |url=http://collections.mnhs.org/mnhistorymagazine/articles/61/v61i08p360-371.pdf |issn=0026-5497 |journal=Minnesota History |jstor=40543955 |volume=61 |issue=8 |pages=360–371 |access-date=July 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624004230/http://collections.mnhs.org/mnhistorymagazine/articles/61/v61i08p360-371.pdf |url-status=live}}
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