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ing replaced the branch located in Plymouth Mall.

Tis new branch is called the raverwood Branch, andopened on June 30, 2008. Te city is also home to the

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

Sunday Morning by Carl Milles in Ann Arbor

Several annual events many o them centeredon perorming and visual arts draw visitors toAnn Arbor. One such event is the Ann ArborArt Fairs, a set o our concurrent juried airsheld on downtown streets, which began in 1960.Scheduled on Wednesday through Saturday in thethird week o July, the airs draw upward o hala million visitors. One event that is not related to

visual and perorming arts is Hash Bash, held onthe rst Saturday o April, ostensibly in support othe reorm o marijuana laws. It has been celebrat-ed since 1971.

A person rom Ann Arbor is called an "AnnArborite", and many long-time residents callthemselves "townies". Te city itsel is oen calledA ("A-squared") or A2 ("A two"), and, less com-monly, ree own. Recently, some youths havetaken to calling Ann Arbor Ace Deuce or simplyTe Deuce. With tongue-in-cheek reerence tothe city's liberal political leanings, some occasion-ally reer to Ann Arbor as Te People's Republico Ann Arbor or 25 square miles surroundedby reality, the latter phrase being adapted romWisconsin Governor Lee Dreyus's descriptiono Madison, Wisconsin. Ann Arbor sometimesappears on citation indexes as an author, insteado a location, oen with the academic degreeMI, a misunderstanding o the abbreviation orMichigan.

Customer Service Center

(Located diagonally across the street rom City Hall)

City Center Building, 1st Floor

220 East Huron

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

(734) 994-2700

Fax: (734) 994-1765

E-mail: customerservice@a2gov.org

Ann Arb

Michigan

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Welcome!

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state o Michigan andthe county seat o Washtenaw County. It is the state's

seventh largest city with a population o 114,024 as o

the 2000 Census, o which 36,892 (32%) are univer-sity or college students. Te city, which is part o the

Detroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CSA, is named aer the

spouses o the city's ounders and or the stands o

trees in the area.

Ann Arbor was ounded in January 1824 by John Al-

len and Elisha Rumsey, both o whom were land spec-ulators. On May 25, 1824, the town plot was registeredwith Wayne County as "Annarbour". Te city became

the seat o Washtenaw County in 1827, and was

incorporated as a village in 1833. Te town became aregional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival

o the Michigan Central Railroad, and was chartered

as a city in 1851. During the 1960s and 1970s, the

city gained a reputation as a center or liberal politics.During the 20th century, the economy o Ann Arbor

underwent a gradual shi rom a manuacturing base

to a service and technology base, which accelerated in

the 1970s and 1980s.

Ann Arbor is home to the University o Michigan,

established in 1837. As the dominant institution o

higher learning in the city and one o the top publicuniversities in the world, the university provides Ann

Arbor with a distinct college-town atmosphere. Te

university shapes Ann Arbor's economy signicantlyas it employs about 30,000 workers, including about

7,500 in the medical center. Te city's economy is also

centered on high-technology, with several companies

drawn to the area by the university's research anddevelopment money, and by its graduates. On the

other hand, Ann Arbor has increasingly ound itsel

grappling with the efects o sharply rising land values

and gentrication, as well as urban sprawl stretchingar into the outlying countryside.

Many Ann Arbor cultural attractions and events are

sponsored by the University o Michigan. Several per-

orming arts groups and acilities are on the universi-ty's campus, as are museums dedicated to art, archae-

ology, and natural history and sciences (see Museums

at the University o Michigan). Regional and local

perorming arts groups not associated with the univer-sity include the Ann Arbor Civic Teatre; the Arbor

Opera Teater; the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra;

the Ann Arbor Ballet Teater; the Ann Arbor CivicBallet (established in 1954 as Michigan's rst chartered

ballet company); and Perormance Network, which

operates a downtown theater requently ofering new

or nontraditional plays.

Te Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located in a ren-

ovated and expanded historic downtown re station,contains more than 250 interactive exhibits eaturingscience and technology. Multiple art galleries exist in

the city, notably in the downtown area and around the

University o Michigan campus. Aside rom a largerestaurant scene in the Main Street, South State Street,

and South University Avenue areas, Ann Arbor ranks

rst among U.S. cities in the number o booksellers

and books sold per capita. Te Ann Arbor DistrictLibrary maintains our branch outlets in addition to its

main downtown building; in 2008 a new branch build-