Milwaukee

Milwaukee skyline

Milwaukee, city, seat (1835) of Milwaukee county, southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. It is a port of entry on Lake Michigan, where the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic rivers join and flow into Milwaukee Bay, about 90 miles (145 km) north of Chicago. Milwaukee, the state’s largest city, forms the core of a five-county metropolitan area that includes such suburbs as Waukesha, Wauwatosa, and West Allis and the city of Racine, about 30 miles (50 km) south. The area also constitutes the northern extent of a heavily urbanized region that stretches southward along the lake through Chicago to northwestern Indiana. Inc. 1846. Area city, 97 square miles (251 square km). Pop. (2010) 594,833; Milwaukee–Waukesha–West Allis Metro Area, 1,555,908; (2020) 577,222; Milwaukee-Waukesha Metro Area, 1,574,731.