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532:'s Steering and Rules Committee took up a proposal to designate the People's Flag of Milwaukee as the city's new official flag. That committee voted 6–2 to revisit the proposal at another meeting by the end of the year. In November of that year, the City of Milwaukee's Arts Board said the original search for a new flag was not inclusive enough, with the relatively small number of judges and voters involved in the process. At least one Milwaukee politician charged that the contest had not made enough efforts to include individuals without internet access. Alderwoman Chantia Lewis said it would not be fair to let "15 people change the entire flag for 600,000 people". Alderman Russell Stamper questioned whether the campaign represented the entire city, and then-Alderman 483: 572: 192: 251: 31: 268: 285: 413:
who created a flag featuring three interlocking gears labeled "HOMES", "INDUSTRY", and "SHIPPING" between a banner reading "MILWAUKEE" and the date "1846". Dannenmann was awarded a $ 100 savings bond, but his design was not officially adopted by the city. Instead, the city's art commission decided to design a new flag itself, incorporating elements of several entries from the previous year's contest. Former alderman Fred Steffan, who had served on the Council during the 1950 contest but was by then working as a commercial artist for the
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In July 2024, the Milwaukee Common Council decided to revisit the issue, with District 11 Alderman Peter Burgelis introducing a resolution to formally adopt the People's Flag as the official flag of Milwaukee. On September 9, 2024, The Steering and Rules Committee voted 5–3 to send the resolution to
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In 2001, the Milwaukee Arts Board of the Milwaukee Common Council held a contest to attract designs for a new flag. Over 105 designs were submitted, but none met with the approval of the board. The board voted unanimously to forwarded five finalists to the Common Council, along with a recommendation
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in golden orange in the center. The flag was submitted to the Common Council, adopted, and given to the Milwaukee Police Department for its exclusive use in parades. A dark blue/light blue version was created for the Fire Department. Over time, the police and fire department flags fell into disuse,
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This flag appears to have fallen out of favor shortly thereafter; in 1917, Alderman Frederick C. Bogk called for commissioning a city flag as part of an ambitious plan for Milwaukee's growth, along with expanding the harbor, investing in infrastructure, preserving residential districts, and annexing
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On September 19, 2024, Alderman Robert J. Bauman, who had opposed bringing the flag to a vote, introduced his own version of the People's Flag. In a move reminiscent of former alderman Fred Steffan's collage-style design, Bauman superimposed a photo of Milwaukee's City Hall on top of the design, to
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In 1950, Alderman Meyers re-introduced his proposed bill. City leaders recognized that Milwaukee was one of only four cities at the time with a population over 500,000 but without a flag, and so the city held a contest for flag designs. The winner was 17-year old Milwaukeean Alfred P. Dannenmann,
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Steffan's original rendering presented to the Common Council, which he had painted on acrylic on paper, was believed lost until found in August 2021 by Milwaukee City Clerk Jim Owczarski while cleaning out the city archives. The city intends to preserve the painting and digitize it, in part to
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In 1975 the city held another contest for a new flag design. Lee Tishler, a Milwaukee Public Museum employee, won with a bright yellow banner featuring symbols of civic life: people, parks, industry and lakefront. Although Tishler was awarded the contest's prize of a $ 100 savings bond in a
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Fred P. Meyers introduced a new resolution in the Common Council proposing "a special city flag committee composed of aldermen and public-spirited citizens who, with the co-operation of the art commission and other art institutions would be commissioned to recommend a design to be ready for
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The public submitted 1,006 entries, from which five finalists were chosen in 2016. In an online poll of over 6,000 people, a design called "Sunrise Over the Lake" received the highest rating of the five. The flag's design is described as follows:
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Before the contest winner was announced, there was some pushback over the need to create a new city flag. One local columnist wondered if an new design would even catch on with the public, or would be quickly abandoned as past proposals had been.
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Milwaukee's one hundred birthday" on January 31, 1946. The anniversary came and went without any action from the council itself, although a flag was created for the city's "Centurama" anniversary celebration. It featured the Centurama logo, a
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In 1909, press accounts described "the municipal flag of Milwaukee" as being blue with a red circle and white "M", possibly related to the red-circle iconography of the city's "Milwaukee: a Bright Spot" advertising campaign of the early 1900s.
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The flag displays symbols of Milwaukee on a medium blue background, with the city name below all the elements. In the center, a gear, representing industry, bears symbols of Milwaukee's identity and history. An Indian head, resembling the
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origins. The flag contains an image of another flag, this one red/white/red stripes with two stars. Originally said to be the Civil War battle flag of a Milwaukee regiment, it has also been suggested that this represents a
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contest. The winning entry, designed by John Amberg, included an oak branch with the motto "Steady Progress" over a cream-colored field. Mr. Amberg was awarded the first prize of $ 15. The design was praised by then-mayor
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The rising sun over Lake Michigan symbolizes a new day. The light blue bars in its reflection represent the city's three rivers ... and three founding towns ... . Gold represents our brewing history and white symbolizes
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This commercial availability, and the demand driving it, has led the People's Flag to become "a near-ubiquitous symbol across town", even without being officially adopted by the city government.
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reported that only one constituent had reached out to him about the flag issue, and that person was opposed to changing the current flag. The Arts Board recommended starting over from scratch.
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Despite the inaction from city officials, the People's Flag was quickly embraced by the citizens of Milwaukee. The organizers of the contest released the design into the
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Milwaukee has had a series of city flags, some official and some only proposed, both before and after the current design was adopted.
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that the Common Council reject them all, and Steffan's flag was retained. In a 2004 poll conducted by the
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Grayscale version of the 1897 contest winner, as published in the Milwaukee Journal on January 10, 1898
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noted that its coverage of his press release was "not a mis-scheduled April Fool's post."
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episode, Steve Kodis, a local graphic designer, partnered with Greater Together, an
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Flag adopted in 1927 and used by the Milwaukee Police Department for ceremonial use
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The flag of Milwaukee is little-used around the city. A 2004 survey by the
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history, and the red ship with water symbolizes Milwaukee's status as a
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Alderman Robert J. Bauman's modified version of "Sunrise Over the Lake"
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Efforts continued to introduce a new permanent city flag. In 1942,
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In 1927, a group of citizens created their own flag, a field of
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In 2015, in response to negative media coverage spurred by a
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Moseley, Claire; Maternowski, Michelle (September 4, 2015).
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The first attempt to introduce a civic flag came in an 1897
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the innermost suburbs. The flag never came to fruition.
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The small "Civil War" flag found on the flag of Milwaukee
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and neither was used to represent the city as a whole.
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Variant version given to the Milwaukee Fire Department
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flag 147th out of 150 flags of major American cities.
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Municipal flag of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Flag of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Civil flag
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Wisconsin
Common Council
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Milwaukee

Milwaukee Braves
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service flag
Milwaukee City Library
Milwaukee City Hall
Milwaukee Arena
County Stadium
Lake Michigan
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port city
Byron Kilbourn
Solomon Juneau
Grayscale version of the 1897 contest winner, as published in the Milwaukee Journal on January 10, 1898
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William C. Rauschenberger
"Municipal Flag of Milwaukee", as described in press accounts from 1909
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Flag adopted in 1927 and used by the Milwaukee Police Department for ceremonial use
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Variant version given to the Milwaukee Fire Department

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