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Your Guide To The Home Buying Process
At First Weber, we are committed to making the home buying process an enjoyable and successful experience for you. Here are some helpful guidelines and information you can use when planning to buy a home.

Financing Options

By choosing to work with me on the sale of your home, you will receive unparalleled advantages and expert personal assistance. You receive the benefits of First Weber Group's highly recognizable branding including signage, strong name recognition, powerful financial strength and extensive marketing resources.

Once you are ready to make a decision on purchasing a new home, we not only take care of all your buying needs, but I will also recommend mortgage professionals who are distinguished in the real estate industry for their professional expertise, integrity and responsiveness to your needs. They are here to fulfill your goals quickly, professionally and with the utmost confidentiality.

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Seller's Guide

How to Make a Great Impression!

Selling your home is more than likely one of the most important financial transactions you will make. The goal is to sell your home as quickly as possible at the best possible price. Here are some suggestions to prepare your home for a quick sale.

1) OUTSIDE APPEARANCE:

Your front door is the first thing buyers will see, so be sure it is fresh and clean.
Make sure that your lawn and landscaped areas are well manicured.
Be sure that your yard is free of refuse and leaves.

2) SAFETY:

During winter, make certain to remove all ice and snow on walkways and steps.
Keep all indoor and outdoor areas, especially stairways, clear and uncluttered.

3) LIGHTING:

Open drapes and curtains as much as possible to let in natural light.
Make sure that the windows are clean so your home appears as bright and cheery as possible.
Turn on all of your outside and inside lights when showing your home at night so as to make your buyer feel welcome.

4) FIXTURES:

Fix any leaky faucets. Dripping water discolors sinks and suggests faulty or worn-out plumbing.

5) IMPORTANT AREAS:

Make sure doors, windows, and cabinets don't stick or have loose knobs. By fixing these minor flaws, you can increase your home's value.
Closets can be an important selling point. Make them look bigger by organizing them neatly to display that your home has ample closet space.

6) ROOMS:

In general, try to replace faded walls and worn woodwork with new wallpaper and fresh paint. It will increase the appeal and value of your home.
Bathrooms can sell homes. Check and repair any damaged or discolored caulking around the bathtubs and showers, and be sure that the towels and area rugs are bright and clean.
Display the full value of your attic, basement, and other utility space (including crawl spaces) by removing all unnecessary articles and debris, and repainting if necessary.
Bedrooms should appear bright and cheerful. Remove all excess furniture, and be sure that bedspreads and curtains are freshly laundered and attractive.

7) ATMOSPHERE:

Don't have too many visitors or family members present during a home inspection, as this can make the potential buyer feel uncomfortable and want to hurry through your house to get away from the crowd.
Turn off the stereo and television so the potential buyer and salesperson can discuss your home in a relaxed environment, free of distractions.
Keep pets from disturbing potential buyers by restricting them to the backyard or an alternative location, such as a friend's home, while conducting an open house.

8) APPROACH:

Be courteous and friendly, but don't insist on conversing with the potential buyer.
Never apologize for the appearance of your home. Should any objections or derogatory comments be offered, let a trained salesperson answer them.
Let the salesperson emphasize the virtues of your home to potential buyers. If you can help with any questions, the salesperson will call you.
Avoid trying to sell potential buyers furniture or furnishings which you are not taking with you before they have purchased the home. This can potentially lose the sale.

9) NEGOTIATIONS:

Let your real estate salesperson discuss the selling price, terms, possessions and other factors with the customer. Our salespeople have been trained and are experienced. Let them bring your negotiations to a satisfactory conclusion.

10) PROCEDURE:

Use our salesperson. We recommend that your home be shown to prospective buyers only by appointment through our office.
Cooperation on your part will be sincerely appreciated and will help us sell your home more quickly.

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Top things to know

Shape up your credit and determine your affordability range before starting the hunt.

1. Don't buy if you can't stay put.

If you can't commit to remaining in one place for at least a few years, then owning is probably not for you, at least not yet. With the transaction costs of buying and selling a home, you may end up losing money if you sell any sooner.

2. Start by shoring up your credit.

Since you most likely will need to get a mortgage to buy a house, you must make sure your credit history is as clean as possible. A few months before you start house hunting, get copies of your credit report. Make sure the facts are correct, and fix any problems you discover.

3. Aim for a home you can really afford.

The rule of thumb is that you can buy housing that runs about two-and-one-half times your annual salary. But you'll do better to use one of many calculators available online to get a better handle on how your income, debts, and expenses affect what you can afford.

4. Don't worry if you can't put down the usual 20 percent.

There are a variety of public and private lenders who, if you qualify, offer low-interest mortgages that require a down payment as small as 3 percent of the purchase price.

5. Buy in a district with good schools.

In most areas, this advice applies even if you don't have school-age children. Reason: When it comes time to sell, you'll learn that strong school districts are a top priority for many home buyers, thus helping to boost property values.

6. Get professional help.

Even though the Internet gives buyers unprecedented access to home listings, it's still a good idea to use an agent. Look for an exclusive buyer agent, if possible, who will have your interests at heart and can help you with strategies during the bidding process.

7. Choose carefully between points and rate.

When picking a mortgage, you usually have the option of paying additional points -- a portion of the interest that you pay at closing -- in exchange for a lower interest rate. If you stay in the house for a long time -- say five to seven years or more -- it's usually a better deal to take the points. The lower interest rate will save you more in the long run.

8. Before house hunting, get pre-approved.

Getting pre-approved will you save yourself the grief of looking at houses you can't afford and put you in a better position to make a serious offer when you do find the right house. Not to be confused with pre-qualification, which is based on a cursory review of your finances, pre-approval from a lender is based on your actual income, debt and credit history.

9. Do your homework before bidding.

Your opening bid should be based on the sales trend of similar homes in the neighborhood. So before making it, consider sales of similar homes in the last three months. If homes have recently sold at 5 percent less than the asking price, you should make a bid that's about eight to 10 percent lower than what the seller is asking.

10. Hire a home inspector.

Sure, your lender will require a home appraisal anyway. But that's just the bank's way of determining whether the house is worth the price you've agreed to pay. Separately, you should hire your own home inspector, preferably an engineer with experience in doing home surveys in the area where you are buying. His or her job will be to point out potential problems that could require costly repairs down the road.

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Apartments

Glacier Hills Apartments (608) 270-9100 1202 McKenna Boulevard, #213 Madison , WI 53719	JSM Properties (608) 255-3933 101 N Mills Street Madison , WI 53715
Keller Real Estate Group (608) 227-6543 448 W. Washington Avenue Madison , WI 53703	Les Chateaux (608) 231-2300 3205 Stevens Street Madison , WI 53715
Madison Apartments, The (608) 245-9800 5440 Congress Avenue Madison , WI 53718	Metropolitan Place (608) 294-7000 380 W. Washington Avenue Madison , WI 53703
Midland Rental (608) 845-3470 6801-A Chester Drive Madison , WI 53719	Midtown Terrace Apartments (608) 848-5067 8002 Starr Grass Drive Madison , WI 53719
Milsted Properties (608) 835-8585 106 W Mifflin Street Madison , WI 53703	Monona Meadows (608) 221-4422 250 Femrite Drive Madison , WI 53716
Muir Heights Apartments (608) 274-9344 8001 Ritz Drive Madison , WI 53719	Pondfield Apartments (608) 276-9440 937-985 N. Gammon Road Madison , WI 53717
Prairie Oaks Apartments (608) 848-1588 360 Prairie Way Boulevard Verona , WI 53593	Resident Services, Inc. (608) 848-1178 7602 Mid Town Road Madison , WI 53719
Seminole Woods Apartments (608) 276-9440 2892 Mickelson Parkway, Suite 100 Madison , WI 53711	Timberlake Village Apartments (608) 277-8107 7425 Timberlake Trail Madison , WI 53719

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Office Buildings & Space

Autumn Woods Professional Centre (608) 835-3628 602 Pleasant Oak Drive, Suite F Oregon , WI 53575	Capitol Executive Suites (608) 441-5123 10 E. Doty Street, Suite 800 Madison , WI 53703
Gelbach, LLC (608) 242-5622 4505 Mallory Circle Madison , WI 53704	Genesis Enterprise Center (608) 327-8000 313 W. Beltline Hwy. Suite 110 Madison , WI 53713-2669
PropertyDrive, LLC (608) 442-0511 PO Box 8691 Madison , WI 53708-8691	The American Center (608) 249-2111 6000 American Parkway, Q22K Madison , WI 53783-0001

Real Estate - Appraisers

Bussen Company
(608) 849-8830
PO Box 620552
Middleton , WI 53562

United Appraisers
(608) 256-8391
121 S. Pinckney Street, Suite 420
Madison , WI 53703

Real Estate - Developers

Alexander Company, Inc. (608) 258-5580 145 E. Badger Road #200 Madison , WI 53713-2708	Bay Tree Real Estate Group, Inc. (608) 831-0500 6601 Grand Teton Plaza, Suite 6 Madison , WI 53719
Dominium Mortgage Corp. (608) 310-4840 5609 Medical Circle, Suite 200 Madison , WI 53711	Executive Management, Inc. (608) 242-5566 2901 International Lane, Suite 100 Madison , WI 53704
Flad Development & Investment Corp. (608) 833-8100 7941 Tree Lane, Suite 105 Madison , WI 53717	Fleming Development Inc. (608) 277-8887 2960 Triverton Pike Drive Madison , WI 53711
Gorman & Company Inc. (608) 257-8778 1244 S Park Street Madison , WI 53715	Horizon (608) 848-4500 1031 N. Edge Trail Verona , WI 53593
Horizon Design Build Manage (608) 848-4500 1031 N. Edge Trail Verona , WI 53593	Hovde & Hovde, Inc. Realtors (608) 246-9600 900 Shasta Drive Madison , WI 53704-2200
John De Witt Real Estate Development (608) 245-1500 621 N. Sherman Avenue Madison , WI 53704	M&M Real Estate Investments, Inc. (608) 241-5790 2002 Atwood Avenue, Suite 212 Madison , WI 53704
McGrath Associates, Inc. (608) 255-3976 103 N Hamilton Street Madison , WI 53703	Monson Construction LLC (608) 833-1127 414 D'Onofrio Drive, Suite 100 Madison , WI 53719
Munz Corporation (608) 310-4808 4781 Hayes Road Madison , WI 53704	Opus North Corporation (414) 266-9393 135 S. 84th Street, Suite 333 Milwaukee , WI 53214-1476
Park Towne Development Corporation (608) 833-9044 402 Gammon Place, Suite 300 Madison , WI 53719	Raymond Management Company, Inc. (608) 833-4100 7700 Mineral Point Road Madison , WI 53717
RHS Companies, Inc (608) 238-4445 440 Science Drive, Suite 301 Madison , WI 53711	Stone House Development, Inc. (608) 251-6000 321 E. Main Street Madison , WI 53703
The Gallina Companies (608) 836-0909 8500 Greenway Boulevard, Suite 200 Middleton , WI 53562	Urban Land Interests, Inc. (608) 251-0706 10 E Doty Street, Suite 300 Madison , WI 53703
Urban Solutions (608) 274-3100 700 Rayovac Drive Madison , WI 53711	WisConn Investments, LLC (608) 209-1862 4916 Creek Haven Road Cottage Grove , WI 53527
Wisconsin Partnership for Housing Development, Inc. (608) 258-5560 121 S. Pinckney Street, Suite 200 Madison , WI 53703

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Real Estate - Investments

BE Investment Properties (608) 825-7014 PO Box 302 Sun Prairie , WI 53590	BTTL, LLC (608) 712-2719 995 Applegate Road Madison , WI 53713
Greek Key Properties (608) 516-7851 412 Midland Lane Monona , WI 53716	MCL Financial Group, Inc. (608) 442-5636 6417 Odana Road Madison , WI 53719
Sara Investment Real Estate, LLC (608) 831-2212 1612 N. High Point Road, Suite 201 Middleton , WI 53562

Retirement Communities

Oakwood Village East (608) 230-4000 5565 Tancho Drive Madison , WI 53718	Oakwood Village West (608) 230-4699 6205 Mineral Point Road Madison , WI 53705
The Jefferson (608) 831-4038 9401 Old Sauk Road Middleton , WI 53562

Senior Services & Housing

Independent Living, Inc.
(608) 274-7900
815 Forward Drive
Madison , WI 53711-2443

Monona Meadows
(608) 221-4422
250 Femrite Drive
Madison , WI 53716

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Growth trend: According to Census Bureau estimates, the population of Dane County increased by 5.4% from 2000 to 2003. The number of people living in the county rose from 426,526 to 449,378.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. Madison is also home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As of a 2005 census projection, Madison had a population of 221,551, making it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 77th largest in the United States. Counting the city's immediate suburbs, the area population exceeds 400,000. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Dane County and neighboring Iowa and Columbia counties, had a 2000 census population of 501,774, and is one of the fastest-growing in Wisconsin.

Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. Madison is also home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As of a 2005 census projection, Madison had a population of 221,551, making it the second
largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 77th largest in the United States. Counting the
city's immediate suburbs, the area population exceeds 400,000. The city forms the core of the
United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of
Dane County and neighboring Iowa and Columbia counties, had a 2000 census population
of 501,774, and is one of the fastest-growing in Wisconsin.

History

View of Madison. Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855.

Madison was created in 1836 when a former federal judge named James Duane Doty purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona within the Four Lakes region, with the intention of building a new city on the site. Wisconsin Territory had been created earlier in the year, and the territorial legislature had convened in Belmont, Wisconsin.

One of the legislature's tasks was to choose a permanent location for the territory's capital city. Doty lobbied aggressively for the legislature to select Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and promising choice Madison lots at discount prices to undecided voters. He had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and "The City of Four Lakes", near present-day Middleton. Despite the fact that Madison was still only a city on paper, the territorial legislature voted on November 28 in favor of choosing Madison for its capital largely because of its location halfway between the new and growing cities around Milwaukee in the east and the long established strategic post of Prairie du Chien in the west, and because of its location between the highly populated lead mining regions in the southwest and Wisconsin's oldest city, Green Bay in the northeast. Being named for a much-admired founding father who had just died, and having streets named after every founding father, also helped attract votes.
Madison's skyline as seen from the shore of Lake Monona

The cornerstone for the Wisconsin capitol building was laid in 1837, and the legislature first met there in 1838. Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626. When Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital city, and it became host to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad (a predecessor of what would become known as the Milwaukee Road) connected to Madison in 1854. Madison became a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863. The original capitol burned in 1904 and construction on the current capitol building began in 1906.

During the American Civil War, Madison served as a center of the Union Army in Wisconsin. The intersection of Milwaukee, East Washington, Winnebago, and North Streets are known as Union Corners, as a tavern located there was the last stop for Union soldiers before heading to fight the Confederates. Camp Randall was built and was used as a training camp, a military hospital, and a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers. After the war ended, Camp Randall was absorbed into the grounds of the University of Wisconsin. Camp Randall Stadium was built over the site in 1917.

Madison continued its growth throughout the 20th century. Today Madison is the second largest city in Wisconsin, and continues to grow steadily.

GeographyView of Lake Monona from Monona Terrace

Madison is located in the center of Dane County in central southern Wisconsin, 77 miles west of Milwaukee. Madison is also located 122 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, as well as the villages Maple Bluff and Shorewood Hills and the city of Monona. Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Middleton, and three other communities, McFarland, Sun Prairie, and Fitchburg (which was a township before incorporating to forestall southern annexation by Madison). The city's boundaries also approach the villages of Verona and Waunakee.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Madison has a total area of 219.3 km² (84.7 mi²). 177.9 km² (68.7 mi²) of it is land and 41.5 km² (16.0 mi²) of it (18.91%) is water.

The city is often described as The City of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota ("Fourth Lake"), Lake Monona ("Third Lake"), Lake Waubesa ("Second Lake") and Lake Kegonsa ("First Lake")^[1], although Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but rather immediately south of it. A fifth smaller lake, Wingra, is within the city as well, but not on the Yahara River chain. The downtown is located on an isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona, but the city has long since expanded far beyond. Eventually the Yahara flows into the Rock River and beyond to the Mississippi River.

Demographics

As of the census^GR2 of 2000, there were 208,054 people, 89,019 households, and 42,462 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,169.8/km² (3,029.7/mi²). There were 92,394 housing units at an average density of 519.5/km² (1,345.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 83.96% White, 5.84% African American, 0.36% Native American, 5.80% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.67% from other races, and 2.32% from two or more races. 4.09% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 89,019 households out of which 22.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.0% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 52.3% were non-families. 35.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the city the population was spread out with 17.9% under the age of 18, 21.4% from 18 to 24, 32.2% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 96.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $41,941, and the median income for a family was $59,840. Males had a median income of $36,718 versus $30,551 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,498. About 5.8% of families and 15.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.4% of those under age 18 and 4.5% of those age 65 or over.

The metropolitan area of Madison as of 2003 had 526,742 inhabitants, making it the second-most populous in the state, after Milwaukee. Dane County is also one of the fastest growing counties in Wisconsin, adding around 60,000 people per decade.

Transportation

Madison is served by the Dane County Regional Airport, which serves more than 100 commercial flights on an average day, and nearly 1.6 million passengers annually. The Metro Transit System operates the city bus routes.^[14] Madison also enjoys widespread taxicab coverage.

A commuter light rail system has been proposed, particularly for a corridor passing through the isthmus and alongside the university campus, but has remained on paper for decades. A high-speed rail route from Chicago through Milwaukee and Madison to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, has also been proposed as part of the Midwest Regional Rail Initiative. Though for a time, former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson was the chairman of Amtrak, the nearest train station is in Columbus, Wisconsin. Regional buses connect Madison to Milwaukee, Janesville, Beloit, and in Illinois, Rockford, O'Hare Airport, and Chicago.WSOR number 4025 painted for the railroad's 25th anniversary, seen in Madison July 23, 2005.

Railroad freight services are provided in Madison by Wisconsin and Southern Railroad (WSOR), which has been operating since 1980, having taken over trackage owned since the 19th century by the Chicago and North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Some of the proposed light rail and commuter routes would use existing WSOR rights of way, such as the line between the Kohl Center and Middleton. Limited commuter trains were tested along this line in the early 2000s as "football specials". The trains took passengers from the Middleton depot to Camp Randall Stadium to help alleviate parking issues on game days.

Interstates 39, 90, and 94 intersect at Madison, connecting the city to Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Media

Madison is home to an extensive and varied number of print publications for a city that reflect the city's role as the state capital and diverse political, cultural and academic population. The Wisconsin State Journal (weekday circulation: ~95,000; Sundays: ~155,000) is published in the mornings, while its sister publication, The Capital Times (Mon-Sat circulation: ~20,000) publishes in the afternoon. Though conjoined in a joint-operating agreement operated under the name Capital Newspapers, the Journal is owned by the national chain Lee Enterprises, while the Times is independently-owned. Wisconsin State Journal is the descendant of the Wisconsin Express, a paper founded in the Wisconsin Territory in 1839. The Capital Times was founded in 1917 by William T. Evjue, a business manager for the State Journal who disagreed with that paper's editorial criticisms of Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. for his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. Through Capital Newspapers, Lee also owns many other papers in southwest Wisconsin and northeast Iowa.

The city is also home to the free weekly alternative newspaper Isthmus^[15] (weekly circulation: ~65,000), which was founded in 1976. The Onion, a satirical weekly, was also founded in Madison in 1988 and maintains its business offices in the city, though its editorial headquarters were moved to New York City in 2000. Two student newspapers are published during the academic year, The Daily Cardinal (Mon-Fri circulation: ~10,000) and The Badger Herald (Mon-Fri circulation: ~16,000). The Herald began during the turmultuous Vietnam War era as a conservative alternative to the liberal Cardinal. Madison is also home to numerous other specialty print publications focusing on local music, politics, and sports, including The Madison Times,^[16] Wisconsin Sports Weekly^[17] The Mendota Beacon, The Madison Observer,^[18] and The Simpson Street Free Press.^[19]

Madison is also home to The Progressive, a left-wing periodical that may be best known for the attempt of the US government in 1979 to suppress one of the Progressive's articles prior to publication. However, the magazine eventually prevailed in the landmark First Amendment case, United States v. The Progressive, Inc. During the 1970s, there were two "radical" weeklies published in Madison, known as TakeOver and Free for All.

Madison's Wisconsin Public Radio station, WHA, was one of the very first radio stations in the nation to begin broadcasting, and remains the longest continuously broadcasting station in the country.

Widely heard public radio programs that originate in Madison include Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?, To the Best of Our Knowledge, and Calling All Pets.

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Politics

Madison is associated with "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive movement. La Follette's Magazine, The Progressive, founded in 1909, is still published in Madison today. City voting patterns have supported the Democratic Party in national elections in the last half-century, and a liberal and progressive majority is generally elected to the city council. Detractors refer to Madison as The People's Republic of Madison, the "Left Coast of Wisconsin," or as "70 square miles surrounded by reality" (although the number varies significantly depending on who is quoting it). This latter phrase was coined by former Wisconsin Republican governor Lee S. Dreyfus while campaigning in 1978, as recounted by campaign aide Bill Kraus.

The counterculture was centered in the neighborhood of Mifflin and Bassett streets, referred to as Mifflin-Bassett or Miffland. The area contained many three-story apartments where students and counterculture youth lived, used illegal substances, painted murals, and operated the co-operative grocery store Mifflin Street Co-op. The neighborhood often came into conflict with authorities, particularly then Republican Mayor Bill Dyke, a one-time personality on WISC-TV who was later to run for vice-president with segregationist Lester Maddox. Dyke was viewed by students as a direct antagonist in efforts to protest the Vietnam War, due to his efforts to suppress the campus riots that resulted in property damage. The annual Mifflin Street Block Party became a focal point for protest, although by the late seventies it had become mainly just a party.

Madison is also home to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which attempts to influence government in matters of removing any and all religious references from governmental entities and activities. The foundation is known for its lawsuits against religious displays on public property, among other things. In recent years, they have made removal of In God We Trust from American currency a main focus.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of students and other citizens took part in anti-Vietnam War marches and demonstrations, with more violent incidents drawing national attention to the city and UW campus. These include:

the 1967 student protest of Dow Chemical Company, with 74 injured;
the 1969 strike to secure greater representation and rights for African American students and faculty, which necessitated the involvement of the Wisconsin Army National Guard;
the 1970 fire that caused damage to the Army ROTC headquarters housed in the Old Red Gym, also known as the Armory; and
the 1970 late summer pre-dawn ANFO bombing of Sterling Hall which housed the Army Mathematics Research Center, killing a post-doctoral student, Robert Fassnacht. Four bombers in the "New Year's Gang" were linked to the bombing, one of whom remains at large.

These protests were the subject of the documentary The War at Home^[4] Tom Bates also wrote the book Rads on the subject (ISBN 0-06-092428-4). Bates wrote that Dyke's attempt to suppress the annual Mifflin Street block party "would take three days, require hundreds of officers on overtime pay, and engulf the student community from the nearby Southeast Dorms to Langdon Street's fraternity row. Tear gas hung like heavy fog across the Isthmus." In the fracas, student activist Paul Soglin, then a city alderman, was arrested and taken to jail. Soglin was later elected mayor of Madison, serving from 1973 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1997, by his latter term breaking with the most extreme elements of Madison's left.

Madison city politics has remained dominated by activists of liberal and progressive ideologies, particularly in the downtown and east side of the city. In 1992, the local third party Progressive Dane was founded, which organizes to influence local politics through the city council and the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Recently enacted city policies supported in the Progressive Dane platform have included an inclusionary zoning ordinance and a city minimum wage. The party holds multiple seats on the Madison City Council and Dane County Board of Supervisors, and is aligned variously with the Democratic and Green parties.

Economy

Wisconsin State Capitol

Wisconsin state government and the University of Wisconsin-Madison remain the top two major Madison employers. However, Madison's economy today is evolving from a governmental based economy to a consumer services and high-tech base, particularly in the health, biotech and advertising sectors. Beginning in the early 1990s, the city has experienced a steady economic boom and has been comparatively unaffected by recession. Much of the expansion has occurred on the city's south and west sides, but it has also affected the east side near the Interstate 39-90-94 interchange and along the northern shore of Lake Mendota. Underpinning the boom is the development of high-tech companies, many actively fostered by the UW-Madison working with local businesses and entrepreneurs to transfer the results of academic research into real-world applications, most notably bio-tech applications.

Many businesses are attracted to Madison's exceptional skill base, taking advantage of the area's high level of education. According to city-data.com, Madison has 48.2% of its population containing a bachelor's degree or higher. Forbes magazine reported in 2004 that Madison has the highest percentage of PH.D.s in the nation. In 2005, Forbes listed the city as having the lowest unemployment: 2.5%, less than half the U.S. 2004 average^[5] In 2006, the same magazine listed Madison as number 31 in the top 200 metro areas for "Best Places for Business and Careers."^[6] Forbes has however named Madison in the top ten several times within the past decade.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison and the city of Milwaukee will be cooperating to bring more business into the region. One of many hopes of this project includes the long awaited arrival of regional rail transportation. As the two cities grow ever closer the region has occasionally been called "Madwaukee." The larger region which includes Chicago and Minneapolis/St Paul has been referred to as the "Circle City."

Business

The biggest employer in Madison is the Wisconsin state government, including virtually all of the state's departments, such as the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Wisconsin Department of Tourism, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the Wisconsin Attorney General, and so forth. This also includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Madison is also home to companies such as the North American division of Spectrum Brands (formerly Rayovac), Alliant Energy, American Family Insurance, the Credit Union National Association, CUNA Mutual Group. Technology companies in the area include TomoTherapy, Sonic Foundry, Raven Software, Human Head Studios, Renaissance Learning, Flame Front Software, and Epic Systems Corporation. Many biotech firms exist here as well, including PanVera, now part of Invitrogen,Promega,^[7] Third Wave Technologies^[8] and the Iceland-based Nimblegen.^[9]

Oscar Mayer has been a Madison fixture for decades, and was a family business for many years before being sold to Kraft Foods. The pizza chains Rocky Rococo and Pizza Pit both began in Madison.

The University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics is an important regional teaching hospital and regional trauma center, with notable strengths in nephrology, oncology, digestive disorders, and endocrinology.^[10] Other Madison hospitals include St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center, Meriter Hospital and the Veteran's Hospital.

Education

Madison is home to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Edgewood College, Madison Area Technical College, and Herzing College, giving the city a student population of nearly 50,000. The University of Wisconsin contributes the vast majority of these, with roughly 41,000 students enrolled. This makes it one of the largest public universities in the United States. It is consistently rated among the top public post-secondary schools in the country, and has outstanding courses, professors, and programs. In a Forbes magazine city ranking from 2003, Madison had the highest number of Ph.D.s per capita, and third highest college graduates per capita, among ranked cities in the United States.^[11] Sports make up a large part of the campus experience at the university, both intramural and intercollegiate. The University's athletic teams, nicknamed "The Badgers", are consistently among the best in United States, drawing throngs of students, alumni, and state residents to their contests.

Additional degree programs are available through satellite campuses of Lakeland College, Upper Iowa University the University of Phoenix, and Cardinal Stritch University for students who maintain full-time employment.

The Madison Metropolitan School District serves the city and surrounding area. With an enrollment of approximately 25,000 students in 46 schools, it is one of the larger school districts in Wisconsin.^[12] Madison has more than six times the National Merit Scholar Semifinalists than comparable school districts. The five public high schools are: James Madison Memorial, Madison West, Madison East, Madison LaFollette, and Malcolm Shabazz, an alternative school. The most notable of the private schools is Edgewood High School, located on the Edgewood College campus.^[13]

With the State-imposed property tax caps, the Madison School District has found itself struggling as of late. In trying to find new methods of funding and support, the School District has tried to estimate the opinions of the public by holding public sessions on their budget. While the State-imposed mandates allow for a 3.3% increase in spending, inflation amounts to a 5.4% per year, resulting in an annual increase necessary to continue previous course offerings that is below state mandates.

Madison also has an especially strong non-credit learning community with multiple programs and many private businesses also offering classes. Examples include Wisconsin Union Mini Courses, Madison School Community Recreation, St. Mary's HealthWorks, and the University of Wisconsin's Continuing Education program.

Culture

In 1996 Money magazine identified Madison as the best place to live in the United States. It has consistently ranked near the top of the best-places list in subsequent years, with the city's low unemployment rate a major contributor.

The main downtown thoroughfare is State Street, which links the University of Wisconsin campus with the State Capitol square, and is lined with restaurants, espresso cafes, and shops. Only pedestrians, buses, police, delivery vehicles and bikes are allowed on State Street (though it was originally an ordinary commercial street), which is an east-west street in contrast to the diagonal streets of the Isthmus and Capitol Square.

Continuing on the other side of Capitol Square is King Street, which is now developing along the lines that State Street has, but with less of a student character, and more appeal to the growing young white-collar high-tech population in Madison (whose residents jokingly refer to the post-graduate crowd). Thus King Street has more upper-end restaurants and cafes than are found on the more student-budget State Street.The skyline of Madison as seen from Lake Monona

In the summer time, on Saturday mornings, the Dane County Farmers' Market is held around the Capitol Square.^[20] On Wednesday evenings on the same square in summer, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra performs free concerts to people picnicking on the Capitol's lawn.^[21] The Great Taste of the Midwest craft beer festival, the second longest running such event in North America, is the second Saturday in August and the highly coveted tickets sell out within a few hours when they go on sale in May.^[22]

Madison is host to Rhythm and Booms, a massive fireworks celebration (coordinated to music) that begins with a fly-over by several F16s from the local Wisconsin Air National Guard. This celebration is the largest fireworks display in the Midwest in terms of the length of the show, number of shells fired and the size of its annual budget.^[23]

During the winter months, Madison hosts Kites on Ice, a gathering of kite-flying enthusiasts on the ice of local Lake Monona near the state capitol.^[24]

In 2004 Madison was named the healthiest city in America by Men's Journal magazine. Many major streets in Madison have designated bike lanes and the city has one of the most extensive bike trail systems in the nation. Due to this, Madison has a very active cyclist culture and it is common place to see groups of friends bicycling together throughout the city on nice days. Bicycle tourism is an $800 million industry in Wisconsin, which has 20 percent of the nation's bicycling industry manufacturing capacity.^[25]

There are quite a few cooperative organizations in the Madison area, ranging from grocery stores (such as the Willy Street Cooperative) to housing co-ops (such as Madison Community Cooperative, Lothlórien Co-op, and Nottingham Housing Cooperative). The total number of co-ops in the area is relatively high when considering the small population of the city. Many larger cities have substantially fewer co-ops.

In 2005, Madison was included in Gregory A. Kompes' book, 50 Fabulous Gay-Friendly Place to Live.^[26] The city was also named the number one college sports town by Sports Illustrated in 2003.^[27]

Madison has also gotten publicity in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its consistent ranking as one of the top "party schools". Among the city's various neighborhood fairs and celebrations are two large student-driven gatherings, the Mifflin Street Block Party and the State Street Halloween Party. Rioting and vandalism at the State Street gathering in 2004 and 2005 has led to the city instituting a cover charge for the 2006 celebration. [2] In an attempt to give the event more structure (and to eliminate opportunity for vandalism), the city and student organizations are working together to schedule performances by bands, and to organize activities. The event has been named "Freakfest On State Street". [3] Events such as these helped contribute to city's nickname of "Madtown."

Music

Madison's vibrant music scene covers a wide spectrum of living musical culture.

The Madison Opera presents a full season of offerings providing at least two full productions and the incredibly popular Opera in the Park (which reached over 10,000 music lovers in the summer of 2005). In addition, the nationally recognized company produces recitals and its late series Opera Up Close.

The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps has provided youth aged 16-22 opportunities to perform across North America every summer since 1938. The corps is hailed world-wide for its energetic and entertaining shows. Further, the UW-Madison Marching Band is one of the most popular marching bands in the nation, with an extensive and eclectic repertoire.^[28]

Garbage is the city's most recognized contemporary contribution to popular music. The multi-million album selling pop-rock band has been based out of Madison since formation in 1994 by producer-musician Butch Vig of Viroqua. Vig is well known for producing albums for such highly-regarded bands as The Smashing Pumpkins (whose debut album Gish was recorded at Vig's Smart Studios in Madison) and Nirvana (whose song Polly from Nevermind was also recorded at Smart Studios).

Madison has a lively independent rock scene as well. Local independent record labels such as Sector Five Records are home to bands from Madison as well as groups from across the United States. The "proto-grunge" sound of the '80s/'90s noise rockers, Killdozer, is another unique facet of Madison's musical history (Killdozer was incidentally recorded by Butch Vig on a number of occasions).

Madison is also home to widely-sampled funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield.

Art

Museums include the UW-Madison's Chazen Museum of Art (formerly the Elvehjem Museum), the Wisconsin Historical Museum (run by the Wisconsin Historical Society),^[29] the Wisconsin Veterans Museum,^[30] the Madison Children's Museum,^[31] and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Madison is also the home of many independent art studios and galleries. It hosts the annual Art Fair on the Square, a juried exhibition, and the complementary Art Fair Off the Square.

Performing arts

The Madison Opera, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Madison Repertory Theatre, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and the Madison Ballet are just some the professional resident companies of the Overture Center for the Arts, presenting annual seasons of professional theater. The city is home to a number of smaller performing arts organizations, including a group of theater companies that present in the Bartell Theatre, a former movie palace that has been renovated into live theater spaces, and Opera for the Young, an opera company that performs for elementary school students across the Midwest. Madison is also home to the Young Shakespeare Players, a theater group for young people that performs uncut Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw plays.

Several films have been at least partially made in Madison. One of the most notable was the documentary The War at Home, which chronicled the anti-Vietnam War movement in Madison. Another movie that made extensive use of the city as a backdrop was the 1986 comedy Back to School, starring Rodney Dangerfield. The University's Bascom Hill is used extensively, as is the local university bookstore, called (appropriately enough) The University Bookstore. The film also features many dorm buildings on campus, and various outdoor locales including the Terrace and Library Mall. Most recently, "The Last Kiss" (2006) starring Zach Braff featured Madison and the University as a back-drop. One early scene in the film was also shot on the Terrace.

Madison is also home to one of the largest film archives in the nation at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

ArchitectureWisconsin State Capitol

The Wisconsin State Capitol dome, closely based on the dome of the U.S. Capitol, is the jewel of the Madison skyline, and is visible throughout the Madison area due to its position on the ridgeline of the isthmus (and a state law that limits building heights within one mile of the structure).^[32] Because of its location in the urban core, Capitol square is well integrated with everyday pedestrian traffic and commerce, and the spoke streets -- especially State Street and E. Washington -- offer dramatic views of the Capitol.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright spent much of his childhood in Madison and studied briefly at the University, and is responsible for several Madison buildings. Monona Terrace, a meeting and convention center overlooking Lake Monona, designed by Taliesin Architect Anthony Puttnam, was based loosely on a 1938 Wright design. Wright did design the seminal Usonian House, which is located here. (Another key Wright building, the Unitarian Society Meeting House, is in the adjacent suburb of Shorewood Hills.)

Harold C. Bradley House

The Harold C. Bradley House, designed collaboratively by Louis H. Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie in 1908-1910 now serves as the Sigma Phi Fraternity in the University Heights neighborhood, along with many well-maintained early 20th-century residences.

The Overture Center for the Arts, designed by Argentina-born architect César Pelli, also stands on State Street near the Capitol. Since opening in 2004, the center has already presented shows and concerts in its Overture Hall, Capitol Theater and The Playhouse (home of the Madison Repertory Theatre). The center, also including smaller performance spaces, also houses the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. The style, unlike Pelli's Petronas Towers, leans toward sleek modernism, with simple expanses of glass framed by stone that are intended to complement the historic building facades preserved as part of the building's State Street exposure.

Many of the over 175 Madison buildings designed by the architectural firm of Claude and Starck are still standing, including Breese Stevens Field, Doty School (now converted to condominiums), and many private residences.^[33]

The UW-Madison campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by architects J.T.W. Jennings (the Dairy Barn, Agricultural Hall) and Arthur Peabody (the Memorial Union and the Carillon Tower). The UW administration building Bascom Hall sits atop a high hill overlooking Lake Mendota, and has been the site of many demonstrations and events. The density of the campus has grown to include 8 to 10 story high-rises including dormitories, research facilities, and classrooms. Several campus buildings erected in the 1960s exhibit brutalist architecture, which is now unpopular. In 2005 the University of Wisconsin embarked on a major redevelopment initiative that will transform the east end of its campus. The plan calls for the razing of a nearly a dozen 1950s to 1970s vintage buildings and the construction of new dormatories, administration, and classroom buildings, as well as the development of a new pedestrian mall extending to Lake Mendota.

The downtown and near east side is currently experiencing a building boom, with dozens of new condominium and apartment buildings being constructed.
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