INDIANS CITY

The City of Cleveland has various sports teams, Cleveland Indians (Major League Baseball), Cleveland Browns (National Football League), Cleveland Cavaliers (National Basketball Association), Cleveland Barons (American Hockey League), and Cleveland Force (Major Indoor Soccer League). The Lake County Captains, an Indians minor-league affiliate, play in the suburb of Eastlake. The city of Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city proper had a total population of 478,403, making it second in population in the state to Columbus, Ohio. Greater Cleveland, however, including the entire metropolitan area and suburbs, has as many as 2,900,000 people - if the Akron and Canton areas are included - by far the largest urban area in the state. On the southern shore of Lake Erie, Cleveland is located in the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. Cleveland is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is located downtown close to Lake Erie. The museum's building was designed by I. M. Pei. In the 1970s a number of bands generally described as proto-punk or post-punk were formed in Cleveland, including the Electric Eels, Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu. The Great Lakes Science Center is located next to the Hall of Fame. Other nearby attractions include the Steamship William G. Mather Maritime Museum, a restored Great Lakes bulk freighter built in 1925, and the USS Cod, a World War II submarine. Five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland is University Circle, a 500 acre (2 km²) concentration of cultural, educational, and medical institutions. These include the Cleveland Museum of Art and Severance Hall, home to the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the United States' major orchestras. Some of the other institutions located in University Circle are the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music, University Hospitals of Cleveland, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and Case Western Reserve University. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cleveland Playhouse and the Health Museum of Cleveland are located nearby. Cleveland is the corporate headquarters of many large companies such as National City Corporation, Eaton Corporation, Forest City Enterprises, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Sherwin Williams Company, and KeyCorp after which the highest skyscraper in Cleveland is named (Key Tower). The headquarters of OfficeMax is located in suburban Shaker Heights, and Progressive Insurance is headquartered in suburban Mayfield Village, Ohio. Cleveland is also a major contributor to the automotive industry in Detroit. The Ford Motor Company has an assembly plant here. Some of the famous natives of Cleveland are, Drew Carey, Halle Berry, Tracy Chapman, Phil Donahue, Arsenio Hall, Gerald Levert, Paul Newman, George Steinbrenner, Joe Walsh, Joel Grey, Bob Hope and Dorothy Dandridge.