Milwaukee plays host to an enormous bar league culture that offers its participants an opportunity to play games, make friends and unwind in the clubhouse, which, in this case, is a bar. Leagues operate year-round, and offer a range of activities to suit your personal taste, from old-school bar games such as darts and billiards to sports like volleyball and Irish hurling, from drinking games such...
Wisconsin was among the first states to grant its African-American residents the right to vote, thanks to the protest vote of a former slave who became a well-respected Milwaukee resident. Just after the Civil War, Ezekiel Gillespie, born into slavery in the South in 1818 as the son of a slave owner, successfully sued the state to affirm the right of Wisconsin’s black citizens to vote. Gillespie had been turned away from the...