History UsefulNotes / Detroit

* Music/{{Twiztid}}, a duo consisting of Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child

* Uncle Kracker

* Music/TheDirtbombs

* Music/{{Esham}} (born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity; formed the Detroit-based rap label, Creator/ReelLifeProductions)

* [[Music/HouseOfKrazees House of Krazees]]
** Music/{{ROC}}
** Music/{{Twiztid}}, a duo consisting of Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child, who were both in House of Krazees.

* Creator/PsychopathicRecords artists Music/InsaneClownPosse, [[Music/AnybodyKilla ABK]], Music/BigHoodoo, Music/BlazeYaDeadHomie and Music/ZugIzland.

* Music/{{Champtown}}
* Music/{{Dice}}

* Music/{{Natas}}

* Tom Skerritt

* ''Grandmont'', ''Rosedale Park'', and ''North Rosedale Park'': Three adjacent neighborhoods on the west side of the Southfield Freeway (M-39) centered around the six-way intersection of Grand River and Fenkell avenues, Ashton Road, and Bretton Drive that began development in the 1910s-20s on land deeded by former U.S. president Andrew Jackson in 1835 and feature stately trees, large homes in a multitude of architectural styles with street names adopting an English country theme, including Scarsdale Street, home of the North Rosedale Park Civic Association, which serves as the heart of the North Rosedale Park neighborhood.

The Detroit area is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis North America (better known as Chrysler) have headquarters there and it is known as the "Motor City" for this very reason.[[note]]Ford and Chrysler's headquarters are actually located in nearby Dearborn and Auburn Hills, respectively, and while General Motors maintains a large plant and its corporate headquarters within the city, its main research and development campus is in neighboring Warren.[[/note]] Its most recognizable structure is the Renaissance Center, a cluster of late-'70s-era skyscrapers that serve as GM's headquarters. The Center notably clashes with the rest of the city's skyline, built much earlier in the century; at the time it was built, it stood as a promise for a bright future for the city, and it now serves as a visible reminder of the region's stagnation. Useful Notes/{{Atlanta}}-based Delta Airlines also operates its second-largest hub at Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport (DTW). The hub was inherited via a merger with Northwest Airlines and serves as the largest in their Midwest network [[note]]Before the merger, Cincinnati (CVG) was their main Midwest hub but Delta re-focused to DTW. CVG was officially dropped as a hub for Delta during the COVID-19 pandemic.[[/note]] as well as being their main transpacific base.

The Detroit area is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis North America (better known as Chrysler) have headquarters there and it is known as the "Motor City" for this very reason.[[note]]Ford and Chrysler's headquarters are actually located in nearby Dearborn and Auburn Hills, respectively, and while General Motors maintains a large plant and its corporate headquarters within the city, its main research and development campus is in neighboring Warren.[[/note]] Its most recognizable structure is the Renaissance Center, a cluster of late-'70s-era skyscrapers that serve as GM's headquarters. The Center notably clashes with the rest of the city's skyline, built much earlier in the century; at the time it was built, it stood as a promise for a bright future for the city, and it now serves as a visible reminder of the region's stagnation. Atlanta based Delta Airlines also operates its second-largest hub at Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport (DTW). The hub was inherited via a merger with Northwest Airlines and serves as the largest in their Midwest network [[note]]Before the merger, Cincinatti (CVG) was their main Midwest hub but Delta re-focused to DTW. CVG was officially dropped as a hub for Delta during the COVID-19 pandemic.[[/note]] as well as being their main transpacific base.

It is geographically notable for a few reasons. Despite being separated from Windsor, Ontario by the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair, it features the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing--the Ambassador Bridge. It is also the only place in the contiguous 48 States where Canada is ''south'' of the U.S., since Windsor juts out to the west just so.[[note]]As a result, a "[[Music/JourneyBand city boy born and raised in South Detroit]]" is actually a native Canadian.[[/note]] Detroit itself is surrounded by smaller independent municipalities, which form the Metro Detroit area. With both a Spanish Creator/{{Univision}} station in Detroit[[note]]said station now serves as an affiliate of religious broadcaster Daystar[[/note]] and (until it was shut down in 2012) a Creator/{{CBC}} tower in Windsor rebroadcasting the main Francophone feed from [[UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} Montréal]], it was for many years the only area in North America where you could watch free-to-air TV in three languages.[[note]]Providence, Rhode Island now has English, Spanish, and Portuguese stations, and UsefulNotes/LosAngeles has English, Spanish and Japanese language stations.[[/note]]

The Metro Detroit area is home to a myriad cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America, centered in Dearborn (with a sizable UsefulNotes/{{Leban|on}}ese outpost in West Bloomfield -- where they get along rather interestingly with the large Jewish population - and the world's biggest Iraqi Catholic population outside Iraq, centered in the northeast exurbs of Utica and Shelby Township, where they get along rather interestingly with the existing predominance of Albanians and Macedonians), as well as sizable UsefulNotes/{{Mexic|o}}an populations across much of the city's southwest side as well as in the suburbs of Lincoln Park and Pontiac. It is also very economically and racially-segregated, with poorer minorities living in the city, the white working-class in the eastern suburbs and the Downriver area[[note]]Allen Park, Brownstown Township, Ecorse, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, Riverview, Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Taylor, Trenton, Woodhaven, and Wyandotte[[/note]] next door to the city to the southwest, and the predominantly white and Asian American upper-middle-class in the northwestern suburbs/exurbs and the Grosse Pointes[[note]]City, Park, Farms, Woods, Shores, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Harper Woods]][[/note]] just east of the city proper. The Metro Detroit area is [[UrbanSegregation one of the most racially segregated in the nation]].

The Motor City. Motown. The D. Hockeytown. The Arsenal of Democracy. The Paris of the Midwest.

* Anita Baker (born in UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio but raised in Detroit, started her music career there, and currently lives in Grosse Pointe).

* Music/BigSean

The Metro Detroit area is home to a myriad cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America, centered in Dearborn (with a sizable UsefulNotes/{{Leban|on}}ese outpost in West Bloomfield -- where they get along rather interestingly with the large Jewish population - and the world's biggest Iraqi Catholic population outside Iraq, centered in the northeast exurbs of Utica and Shelby Township, where they get along rather interestingly with the existing predominance of Albanians and Macedonians). It is also very economically and racially-segregated, with poorer minorities living in the city, the white working-class in the eastern suburbs and the Downriver area[[note]]Allen Park, Brownstown Township, Ecorse, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, Riverview, Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Taylor, Trenton, Woodhaven, and Wyandotte[[/note]] next door to the city to the southwest, and the predominantly white and Asian American upper-middle-class in the northwestern suburbs/exurbs and the Grosse Pointes[[note]]City, Park, Farms, Woods, Shores, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Harper Woods]][[/note]] just east of the city proper. The Metro Detroit area is [[UrbanSegregation one of the most racially segregated in the nation]].

''We can never turn our backs on you Detroit, because we are you."''

Detroit is also known as "Hockeytown" due to the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Detroit Red Wings]], one of the "Original Six" teams of the NHL, and one of four such teams in the Eastern Conference's Atlantic Division,[[note]]even though Detroit is very far from the Atlantic Ocean - having moved there in 2013 after over three decades as one of the few Eastern Time Zone teams in the Western Conference, thus allowing the Red Wings to play more road games in their own time zone[[/note]] and a perennial [[UsefulNotes/TheStanleyCup Stanley Cup]] contender. The city has teams in all four major sports, as [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation the Pistons]] had a few dominant runs in basketball and the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams the Tigers]] have had their moments in baseball. [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague The Lions]], on the other hand, have the second longest championship drought of any football team, having not won an NFL title since before the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl even existed.

The Metro Detroit area is home to a myriad cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America, centered in Dearborn (with a sizable UsefulNotes/{{Leban|on}}ese outpost in West Bloomfield -- where they get along rather interestingly with the large Jewish population - and the world's biggest Iraqi Catholic population outside Iraq, centered in the northeast exurbs of Utica and Shelby Township, where they get along rather interestingly with the existing predominance of Albanians and Macedonians). It is also very economically and racially-segregated, with poorer minorities living in the city, the white working-class in the eastern suburbs and the Downriver area[[note]]Allen Park, Brownstown Township, Ecorse, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, Riverview, Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Taylor, Trenton, Woodhaven, and Wyandotte[[/note]] next door to the city to the southwest, and the predominantly white, Indian American, and Asian American upper-middle-class in the northwestern suburbs/exurbs and the Grosse Pointes[[note]]City, Park, Farms, Woods, Shores, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Harper Woods]][[/note]] just east of the city proper. The Metro Detroit area is [[UrbanSegregation one of the most racially segregated in the nation]].

This inequality is just one reason that Detroit has one of the least-flattering public images of any major city in the country. The decline of the American auto industry in the TheSeventies, combined with simmering racial, economic, and labor tensions, have made it the poster child for, and butt of many jokes about, [[WretchedHive urban decay and inner-city squalor]] for much of America. Detroit has lost two thirds of its peak population since 1950 (from 1.8 million to less than 640,000). For decades, mentions of Detroit in the national media and pop culture have typically referred to it as a PlaceWorseThanDeath, and the crumbling ruins of some of its more destitute neighborhoods have honestly been described as looking [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]]. This tends to seriously annoy Detroiters, who feel that the city's bad reputation is making it harder to revitalize. They also feel that many of the jokes are tired, clichéd, and lazy. The city filed for bankruptcy in 2013, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Since the bankruptcy, the city's finances are much more stable, and there are a number of projects for growth across the city (especially in Downtown and Midtown). That being said, city redevelopment can be a slow process, as the experiences of many other cities in the U.S. can tell. In recent years, however, the city has seen a number of new major retail openings to compete with those party stores[[note]]a local term for a convenience store that sells alcohol[[/note]], Amocos-turned-[=BPs=], Perry Drugs-turned-Rite Aids and Arbor Drugs-turned-CVS Pharmacies.

In the mid-20th century, '''Detroit''' was the fifth-largest city in the United States, the center of its powerful auto industry, and a bustling hub of music and culture. Things have changed a lot since then; Detroit is now the 27th largest city in the country.[[note]]Though much of that has to do with the flight of many former Detroiters to its sprawling suburbs; the overall metro area is the 14th biggest.[[/note]] But it still remains the largest city in the State of UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} and the focal point of the Great Lakes State's main population center (with a metropolitan population of 4.3 million, or slightly less than half the total state population of 10 million) and economic engine.

This inequality is just one reason that Detroit has one of the least-flattering public images of any major city in the country. The decline of the American auto industry in the TheSeventies, combined with simmering racial, economic, and labor tensions, have made it the poster child for, and butt of many jokes about, [[WretchedHive urban decay and inner-city squalor]] for much of America. Detroit has lost 65% of its peak population since 1950 (from 1.8 million to less than 640,000). For decades, mentions of Detroit in the national media and pop culture have typically referred to it as a PlaceWorseThanDeath, and the crumbling ruins of some of its more destitute neighborhoods have honestly been described as looking [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]]. This tends to seriously annoy Detroiters, who feel that the city's bad reputation is making it harder to revitalize. They also feel that many of the jokes are tired, clichéd, and lazy. The city filed for bankruptcy in 2013, becoming the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history. Since the bankruptcy, the city's finances are much more stable, and there are a number of projects for growth across the city (especially in Downtown and Midtown). That being said, city redevelopment can be a slow process, as the experiences of many other cities in the U.S. can tell. In recent years, however, the city has seen a number of new major retail openings to compete with those party stores[[note]]a local term for a convenience store that sells alcohol[[/note]], Amocos-turned-[=BPs=], Perry Drugs-turned-Rite Aids and Arbor Drugs-turned-CVS Pharmacies.

Downtown would escape from this Dork Age at the TurnOfTheMillennium, beginning with the Tigers' relocation to Comerica Park, and by the time of Quicken Loans' relocation of its headquarters from Livonia to Campus Martius in 2010 and the subsequent reoccupation of Downtown's formerly-abandoned skyscrapers, this Dork Age had ended.

* ''Belle Isle'': A city park-turned-state park that comprises an entire Detroit River achipelago. Tourist attractions include the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, and the Belle Isle Aquairum. Every Memorial Day weekend, it also hosts the Detroit Grand Prix race.

Downtown is encircled by a one-way elevated light rail track called the People Mover, which has seen varying ridership levels since its [[TheEighties 1987]] opening, but is really useful for somewhat quick (and loud!) travel to various downtown hotspots for those who prefer not to walk (which is typically ''faster'' anyway), connects to the aforementioned [=QLine=] at two locations, and it gets especially packed during sporting events and conventions.

* ''Cass Corridor'': Covers blocks on both sides of Cass Avenue north of I-75, originally one of Detroit's most wealthiest districts up until the mid-[[The20thCentury 20th Century]], it has received an incredible appearance makeover, played in large part by Wayne State. Basketball's Pistons and hockey's Red Wings both play at Little Caesars Arena. Built in 2017, it serves as the anchor of the neighborhood's southern end.

* ''Grand Circus Park'': A half-circular park bisected by Woodward Avenue, several notable skyscrapers surround it, the Detroit Opera House anchors the east half, and Comerica Park, the home stadium of baseball's Tigers, is located at the park's northeast corner.

* ''Hamtramck'' and ''Highland Park'': A pair of separately-incorporated cities that do share a border with each other for about a quarter-mile,[[note]]along the Canadian National Railway mainline roughly between Caniff Street and the Davison Freeway (M-8)[[/note]] but are otherwise completely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramck is noticeably more densely-spaced and was the metro area's Polish enclave for generations,[[note]]despite being established by Germans[[/note]] although numerous Arabic and Asian immigrants have been moving into the area. It achieved two significant "firsts" among US cities in recent years; in 2015, it became the first to have a Muslim-majority city council, and in 2023 became the first in which all elective government officers (mayor and all council members) were Muslims. Later that year, the new council caused an uproar by banning "religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexual orientation group flags" on city property, with the resolution being voted on during (LGBT+) Pride Month. Highland Park, historically a blue-collar community, suffered a massive population loss after Ford and Chrysler closed their plants in this enclave in favor of more modern ones in the suburbs, and nowadays has a similar reputation as Detroit, if not worse (for instance, their only high school closed in 2015 and was quickly demolished, and many of its residential streets, most notably Avalon and Buena Vista streets, lacked streetlights).

* ''Palmer Park'': A large park located along the west side of Woodward south of 7 Mile, with a neighborhood comprising apartment buildings abuttng the park's southern edge.

* ''Noham'' or ''Banglatown'': Named for its location just north of the City of Hamtramck, this neighborhood began gaining Bangladeshi-American residents at the [[TurnOfTheMillennium Turn Of The Millennium]], and by 2015, they were joined by artists, and, of course, {{hipster}}s.

That said, the west side also has a few off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods of its own, historically especially along Rosa Parks Boulevard, which was renamed in honor of the prominent UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement leader (who, in fact, resided in Detroit for her later life) in 1976 after its previous name, 12th Street, had become [[OvershadowedbyControversy more well known]] for being the center location of the five-day 1967 riots, which wrecked the city's public image for a generation.

* ''University District'': Anchored by the University of Detroit Mercy, the city's other main university, it's a middle-class district which features a variety of architectural styles on tree-lined streets.
* ''Woodbridge'': Located across the John C. Lodge Freeway, M-10, from Wayne State's main campus, the neighborhood was originally developed starting in 1870 with many upper-class houses, and is seeing rapid redevelopment thanks to its close proximity to Wayne State.

* ''Corktown'': Detroit's original Irish neighborhood, which dates back to the 1850s, it is still primarily residential, featuring small Victorian workers' cottages, despite being right across the Lodge Freeway from downtown. It was cut in half in TheSixties by the construction of I-75, with the northern half becoming ''North Corktown'', and the southernmost portion similarly was demolished and reveloped into an industrial development known as ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin West Side Industrial]]''. Baseball's Tigers called this neighborhood home from 1912 to 1999 before their relocation to downtown.

* Music/AliceCooper

* Music/ArethaFranklin

* Music/BobSeger (Lincoln Park)

* Music/DannyBrown
* Della Reese

* Mitch Ryder

* Saprogenic

* Music/TedNugent

* Alex Shelley is from Detroit. For a while, he teamed up with Chris Sabin, who's from Pickney, as the "Motor/Murder City Machine Guns" , themselves often times paired Kevin Nash as their manager.

* Rick and Wrestling/ScottSteiner (Bay City)

* Ben Carson: Neurosurgeon, Republican politician, and as of 2018, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Moved to Baltimore to work at Johns Hopkins Hospital; currently a resident of Florida.

* ''Campus Martius Park'': For many years a messy convergence of wide roads that was very pedestiran unfriendly, anchored by the 1001 Woodward Avenue skyscraper, starting at the [[TurnOfTheMillennium Turn Of The Millennium]], it was replaced with a traffic circle featuring parks and monuments, emerging as downtown's main gathering spot.

'''New Center:''' Located next door to the northern edge of midtown, this commercial and residential district is centered on the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard and anchored by the Cadillac Place[[note]]General Motor's headquarters before they moved to the Renaissance Center[[/note]] and Fisher Building skyscrapers.

* ''Hamtramck'' and ''Highland Park'': A pair of separately-incorporated cities that do share a border with each other for about a quarter-mile,[[note]]along the Canadian National Railway mainline roughly between Caniff Street and the Davison Freeway (M-8)[[/note]] but are otherwise completely surrounded by Detroit. Hamtramck is noticeably more densely-spaced and was the metro area's Polish enclave for generations,[[note]]despite being established by Germans[[/note]] although numerous Arabic and Asian immigrants have also begun moving into the area. Highland Park, historically a blue-collar community, suffered a massive population loss after Ford and Chrysler closed their plants in this enclave in favor of more modern ones in the suburbs, and nowadays has a similar reputation as Detroit, if not worse (for instance, their only high school closed in 2015 and was quickly demolished, and many of its residential streets, most notably Avalon and Buena Vista streets, lacked streetlights).

* ''East English Village'' and ''Morningside'': These two neighboring upper-class neighborhoods share a border with Grosse Pointe, and feature wide streets lined with brick and tudor homes of various sizes, predominantly large and luxurious, which seems natural given its location.

* "Film/Barbarian(2022)"

* "Film/Barbarian (2022)"

* ''Old Redford'': Formerly part of Redford Township, it was annexed into Detroit in 1926. It features a small business district anchored by the Redford Theatre, an indoor movie theater that specalizes in screenings of the sort of films that you can typically see on Creator/TurnerClassicMovies; and decent residential streets.

The Detroit area is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis North America (better known as Chrysler) have headquarters there and it is known as the "Motor City" for this very reason.[[note]]Ford and Chrysler's headquarters are actually located in nearby Dearborn and Auburn Hills, respectively, and while General Motors maintains a large plant and its corporate headquarters within the city, its main research and development campus is in neighboring Warren.[[/note]] Its most recognizable structure is the Renaissance Center, a cluster of late-'70s-era skyscrapers that serve as GM's headquarters. The Center notably clashes with the rest of the city's skyline, built much earlier in the century; at the time it was built, it stood as a promise for a bright future for the city, and it now serves as a visible reminder of the region's stagnation. Atlanta based Delta Airlines also operates its second-largest hub at Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport (DTW). The hub serves as the largest in their Midwest network [[note]]Before the merger, Cincinatti (CVG) was their main Midwest hub but Delta re-focused to DTW. CVG was officially dropped as a hub for Delta during the COVID-19 pandemic.[[/note]] as well as being their main transpacific base.

The Detroit area is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis North America (better known as Chrysler) have headquarters there and it is known as the "Motor City" for this very reason.[[note]]Ford and Chrysler's headquarters are actually located in nearby Dearborn and Auburn Hills, respectively, and while General Motors maintains a large plant and its corporate headquarters within the city, its main research and development campus is in neighboring Warren.[[/note]] Its most recognizable structure is the Renaissance Center, a cluster of late-'70s-era skyscrapers that serve as GM's headquarters. The Center notably clashes with the rest of the city's skyline, built much earlier in the century; at the time it was built, it stood as a promise for a bright future for the city, and it now serves as a visible reminder of the region's stagnation.

* ''Cass Corridor'': Covers blocks on both sides of Cass Avenue north of I-75, originally one of Detroit's most wealthiest districts up until the mid-[[TheTwentiethCentury 20th Century]], it has received an incredible appearance makeover, played in large part by Wayne State. Basketball's Pistons and hockey's Red Wings both play at Little Caesars Arena. Built in 2017, it serves as the anchor of the neighborhood's southern end.

* ''Indian Village'': Established early in [[TheTwentiethCentury the 20th century]], its famous homes were originally built for some of Detroit's most prominent citizens, and is still home to some of the city's white collar population. Located north of Jefferson Avenue three miles east of downtown.

* ''Rivertown'': Located along the Detroit River just east of downtown, it experienced a decline throughout [[TheTwentiethCentury the 20th century]] before resurging in TheNineties, and is now home to new residential developments, including Harbortown, an upscale high-rise apartment complex that also features a marina.