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Nicknamed the Mile High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (5280 feet) | Denver | 91%
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The location of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929, when Al Capone sent men to gun down members of a rival gang | Chicago | 83%
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The busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines | Miami | 82%
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Founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England | Boston | 75%
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Named after King Louis XVI of France | Louisville | 73%
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It stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico-United States border from Ciudad Juárez | El Paso | 68%
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The second-largest music production center (after New York) in the United States | Nashville | 68%
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Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, its population has declined by more than 60 percent | Detroit | 65%
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The most remote city of its size in the world | Honolulu | 63%
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The largest city within the greater Mojave Desert | Las Vegas | 57%
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The number one beer producing city in the world for many years | Milwaukee | 52%
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Almost entirely burned to the ground in General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea | Atlanta | 46%
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Located at the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers | Pittsburgh | 46%
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Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, Ogden Nash, and H. L. Mencken | Baltimore | 44%
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An important city in U.S. presidential politics; as the state's capital, it is the site of the first caucuses of the presidential primary cycle | Des Moines | 44%
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The cultural center of the Valley of the Sun | Phoenix | 43%
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The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in the city from 1837 until 1861 | Springfield | 43%
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The largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea | Dallas | 42%
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Known for its cool summers, fog, and steep rolling hills | San Francisco | 42%
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In 1770, the city's 11,000 inhabitants - half slaves - made it the 4th-largest port after Boston, New York, and Philadelphia | Charleston | 34%
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