This has been the Milwaukee flag since 1955.The new flag would feature the sun rising over Lake Michigan. It also includes three blue bars representing the city's three rivers: Milwaukee ...

Milwaukee's current city flag reflects its history and is clearly this city on a lake, its supporters say. The People's Flag depicting the sun rising over Lake Michigan is simple, meaningful and ...

Finally, on March 13, 1950, the Common Council approved a design competition for a city flag. The winner, designed by 17-year ...

Though it's not Milwaukee's official flag, "Sunrise Over the Lake" has been embraced in the city, and is one of our 100 objects.

After a heated hourlong debate, the Milwaukee Common Council delayed a vote Tuesday on whether to change the official city flag to "Sunrise Over the Lake," commonly known as the People's Flag. The ...

There's no doubt Lake Michigan is a big part of the city of Milwaukee − and that's especially true when it comes to the weather. You can thank the lake for late-fall windstorms, cool summer ...

Newspapers described how on July 9, 1868, the Milwaukee set a course to Muskegon, Michigan to pick up a cargo of lumber as a nearly identical ship, the C. Hickox, left Muskegon for Chicago with a ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — Explorers from the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association (MSRA) have discovered and identified the remains of the steam barge Milwaukee, which sank in 1886, about 40 miles ...