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Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson was joined by City leaders and local stakeholders for a press conference at the Mitchell Street Library, where he outlined a comprehensive plan that includes law enforcement, community healing, and neighborhood-level investments to reduce violence and ensure safety in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee native and Emmy award winning entertainer John McGivern begins performing his new live one-man holiday show at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino’s Northern Lights Theater. It is McGivern’s first major stage production since his Pabst Theater show in April, just after COVID restriction were lifted.

State and local officials joined with the family of Alonzo Robinson to rename the Milwaukee Fire Department’s administration headquarters in honor of the building’s designer and Wisconsin’s first African American architect. The building was commissioned in 1962 at a cost of $507K, a price today of a new emergency vehicle.

An interfaith prayer vigil was held at Cutler Park in the City of Waukesha, providing the community with an opportunity to join together in grief and hope to remember those killed and injured in the Waukesha Christmas Parade, a tragedy that occurred when a SUV drove through the annual event and hit the participants.

Discovery World celebrated 15 years along the lakefront of Milwaukee, and the museum’s success as an institution of scientific education to have continued its mission during the pandemic, at its annual gala fundraising benefit under COVID-19 health and safety protocols that included proof of vaccination.