Saint Francis, Wisconsin

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Latitude: 42.969615 -- Longitude: -87.876745

Other Area Cities:   Saint Francis  Cudahy  Elm Grove  Franklin  Glendale  Greendale  Greenfield  Hales Corners  Milwaukee  New Berlin  Oak Creek  Shorewood  South Milwaukee  Wauwatosa  West Allis 

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The founders of St. Francis broke the city away from the Town of Lake, a now defunct entity that covered much of Milwaukee's far southside and some of the southern/southwestern suburbs in Milwaukee County, in order to keep revenues from the South Shore Power Plant for themselves. The importance of the power plant to St. Francis' economy in the middle of the 20th century shows in the city's former logo, with the familiar smoke stacks holding a prominent position. The plant closed in the late 1980s, moving to Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The land on Lake Michigan's coast that the electric utility owned for the plant has, after over a decade of lying unused, recently been developed with high-priced condominiums. These condos are especially valuable because they are built on some of the only undeveloped lakefront land in the metropolitan Milwaukee area. -- Source: Wikipedia.com