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Waukesha, Wisconsin
Waukesha, Wisconsin: county-seat city west of Milwaukee, founded 1834 as Prairieville, population about 71,000, known for 19th-century mineral-spring resorts and its 8.2-million-gallon-per-day Lake Michigan water diversion begun in 2023.
Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau, also known as Wausau, WI, is the county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin River, with a population of about 40,000 in 2025.
West Lafayette, Indiana
West Lafayette, Indiana: Tippecanoe County city across the Wabash River from Lafayette, home of Purdue University (founded 1869). 2020 population 44,595; renamed from Chauncey in 1888; SK Hynix $3.87 billion plant announced 2024.
Westlake, Ohio
Westlake, Ohio, a Cuyahoga County suburb of Cleveland founded as Dover Township in 1811, renamed Westlake Village in 1940, a city since 1957; population 34,228 (2020), home to Crocker Park.
Wilmette, Illinois
Wilmette is a village in Cook County, Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, one of the North Shore suburbs, named for the Ouilmette family, with a 2020 population of 28,170.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Dells, once named Kilbourn, is a city in south-central Wisconsin on the Wisconsin River, known as the Waterpark Capital of the World with about 3,383 residents.
Xenia, Ohio
Xenia, Ohio is the county seat of Greene County in southwestern Ohio, founded 1803, population 25,441 (2020). Known for the deadly April 3, 1974 F5 tornado and as the Bicycle Capital of the Midwest, hub of five paved trails.
Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown, Ohio: Mahoning Valley city founded 1797 by John Young, incorporated 1802; a major steel center whose Youngstown Sheet and Tube closure on Black Monday 1977 began decline from a 1930 peak of 170,002 to about 59,000 today.
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan: a Washtenaw County city on the Huron River, founded 1825 and named for Demetrius Ypsilanti; home of Eastern Michigan University, 20,648 residents in 2020.
Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesville, Ohio, county seat of Muskingum County at the Licking-Muskingum river confluence; founded 1804, Ohio capital 1810-1812, home of the Y-Bridge and a pottery heritage.
Zion, Illinois
Zion (formerly Zion City), Lake County, Illinois: a theocratic utopian city founded in 1900 by faith healer John Alexander Dowie, ruled by Wilbur Glenn Voliva until the mid-1930s, later home to shuttered nuclear plants; 2020 population 24,655.