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Seattle's foreign-born population grew 40% between the 1990 and 2000 censuses. [295] The Washington Supreme Court declined to hear the case, maintaining the tax as unconstitutional and unenforceable. It owes its name to the Native American leader Seattle, chief of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and other tribes of the Puget Sound area. [294] The Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. Sixty miles (95 km) to the south of Seattle, the state capital Olympia, which is out of the Olympic Mountains' rain shadow, receives an annual average precipitation of 50 in (1,270 mm). On January 14, 1865, the Legislature of Territorial Washington incorporated the Town of Seattle with a board of trustees managing the city. This is the version of our website addressed to speakers of English in the United States.

[40] Seattle brought in the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to design a system of parks and boulevards.

[274] For the first time in United States history, an openly gay black woman was elected to public office when Sherry Harris was elected as a Seattle city councillor in 1991. [292], In July 2017, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved an income tax on Seattle residents, making the city the only one in the state with an income tax. In 1900, Asians were 4.2% of the population. [219], The Seattle Seahawks entered the National Football League in 1976 as an expansion team and have advanced to the Super Bowl three times: 2005, 2013 and 2014. Seattle is one of the five rainiest major U.S. cities as measured by the number of days with precipitation, and it receives some of the lowest amounts of annual sunshine among major cities in the lower 48 states, along with some cities in the Northeast, Ohio, and Michigan. [198], There are other annual events, ranging from the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair & Book Arts Show;[199] an anime convention, Sakura-Con;[200] Penny Arcade Expo, a gaming convention;[201] a two-day, 9,000-rider Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic;[202] and specialized film festivals, such as the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival, the Seattle Asian American Film Festival (formerly known as the Northwest Asian American Film Festival), Children's Film Festival Seattle, Translation: the Seattle Transgender Film Festival, the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Seattle Latino Film Festival, and the Seattle Polish Film Festival.[203][204].

Other non-commercial stations include KEXP-FM 90.3 (affiliated with the UW), community radio KBCS-FM 91.3 (affiliated with Bellevue College), and high school radio KNHC-FM 89.5, which broadcasts an electronic dance music radio format, is owned by the public school system and operated by students of Nathan Hale High School.

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The 2-mile (3.2 km) Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel was originally scheduled to be completed in December 2015 at a cost of US$4.25 billion. Area 83.9 square miles (217.3 square km). In the convergence zone, air arriving from the north meets air flowing in from the south. [205] The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) opened in 1933 and moved to their current downtown location in 1991 (expanded and reopened in 2007); since 1991, the 1933 building has been SAM's Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM). Conversely, the city receives some of the lowest precipitation amounts of any large city from June to September. Luckily, there are a handful of establishments willing to brave the elements to give you a place to drink with views of the city. [215], Seattle has four major men's professional sports teams: the National Football League (NFL)'s Seattle Seahawks, Major League Baseball (MLB)'s Seattle Mariners, and Major League Soccer (MLS)'s Seattle Sounders FC playing currently, and the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Seattle Kraken beginning play in 2021. [25] The rest of the Denny Party set sail from Portland, Oregon, and landed on Alki point during a rainstorm on November 13, 1851.[25]. The century-old Seattle Symphony Orchestra has won many awards and performs primarily at Benaroya Hall. Seattle is also the birthplace of rock musician Jimi Hendrix, as well as the origin of the bands Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters and the alternative rock movement grunge. Harborview Medical Center, the public county hospital, is the only Level I trauma hospital in a region that includes Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. Non-commercial radio stations include NPR affiliates KUOW-FM 94.9 and KNKX 88.5 (Tacoma), as well as classical music station KING-FM 98.1. [62] Beginning with Microsoft's 1979 move from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to nearby Bellevue, Washington,[63] Seattle and its suburbs became home to a number of technology companies including Amazon.com, F5 Networks, RealNetworks, Nintendo of America, McCaw Cellular (now part of AT&T Mobility), VoiceStream (now T-Mobile), and biomedical corporations such as HeartStream (later purchased by Philips), Heart Technologies (later purchased by Boston Scientific), Physio-Control (later purchased by Medtronic), ZymoGenetics, ICOS (later purchased by Eli Lilly and Company) and Immunex (later purchased by Amgen). [72], Another boom began as the city emerged from the Great Recession which commenced when Amazon.com moved its headquarters from North Beacon Hill to South Lake Union. [189], The city also has movie houses showing both Hollywood productions and works by independent filmmakers. Meanwhile, 6% of the residents in Seattle call themselves agnostics, while 10% call themselves atheists. Furthermore, Bellevue is home to truck manufacturer Paccar (#164). In 2015 the city recorded 13 days over 90 °F. Other models of urban growth make Seattle part of a conurbation called “Pugetopolis,” which extends southwest along Puget Sound as far as Olympia. War work again brought local prosperity during World War II, this time centered on Boeing aircraft. The city's gross metropolitan product (GMP) was $231 billion in 2010, making it the 11th largest metropolitan economy in the United States.

[11] In July 2016, Seattle was again the fastest-growing major U.S. city, with a 3.1% annual growth rate. Omissions?

Rain or shine, this great city offers a slew of entertaining attractions for the author and her family. Its maritime cargo operations merged with the Port of Tacoma in 2015 to form the Northwest Seaport Alliance. Book your tickets online for the top things to do in Seattle, Washington on Tripadvisor: See 209,361 traveler reviews and photos of Seattle tourist attractions. The city has a reputation for heavy coffee consumption;[157] coffee companies founded or based in Seattle include Starbucks,[158] Seattle's Best Coffee,[159] and Tully's.

Some neighbourhoods, notably those near the Duwamish Waterway to southwest of the city centre, are industrial in character, marked by rail yards, wharves, cranes, and low-income housing projects.

[296], Of the city's population over the age of 25, 53.8% (vs. a national average of 27.4%) hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and 91.9% (vs. 84.5% nationally) have a high school diploma or equivalent. Violence during the Maritime Strike of 1934 cost Seattle much of its maritime traffic, which was rerouted to the Port of Los Angeles. [137], According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, the largest religious groupings are Christians (52%), followed by those of no religion (37%), Hindus (2%), Buddhists (2%), Jews (1%), Muslims (1%) and a variety of other religions have smaller followings.