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Berry Gordy Jr. and Suzanne de Passe. ("classic.motown.com" and "facebook.com") … How the start of Motown’s next, bold era is often simplified. Often, it’s simply put as [Berry] Gordy having always had his idea and simply done it. As it usually is, however, the truth is far more complicated...

What if the University of Michigan were established on the site of what would later become Detroit when it was established? I ask this because colleges attract not just students to them but also academia and professionals and they create a permanent presence of a certain amount people and a...

what if the Detroit lions through good drafting and having the right individuals go to super bowl 25 in 1991 defeating the bills which will start a football dynasty of the 1990 and it all started when they traded andre ware for warren moon from oilers and they drafted bo jackson in 1987 and...

Say for whatever reason Chicago becomes the hub of American car manufacturing. By 2020, is Chicago better or worse off from having this industry? Does it give a significant boost to Chicago, adding to it's already diverse economy well, or does the auto industry force itself onto Chicago and make...

"The plan made it to the Detroit Common Council in 1919, which passed a resolution to begin negotiations with the DUR to put the plan in motion. But Mayor James Couzens, elected into office just the year before, had campaigned on eliminating the DUR, and he vetoed it. The Council’s attempts to...

Today, Detroit is considered one of America's "key cities": an international hub of finance, culture, commerce, industry, etc. Chicago, on the other hand, has spent decades as the butt of jokes about terrible places to live, and while things seem to be improving (at least for the moment), it...

What if Detroit in the 1970s manages to turn things around and increases its population from 1.2 million to 2.5 million by 2020 (fueled by rapid growth in the 1980s and 90s)? What are the effects for the Midwest/Great Lakes region, and the United States as a whole? For some context, let's say...

The Ford administration offered $600 million to the metro Detroit region to build a subway system, but due to internal city vs suburbs politics, an overambitious subway system plan, and the eventual emergence of the Reagan administration in 1980, the subway system was never built. What would...

In 1812, Isaac Brock and Tecumseh attempted to get William Hull to surrender Fort Detroit by using bluff and deception. But Hull saw right through their attempts to trick him and refused to be intimidated. What if Hull had bought it and surrendered?

It stands out on a highway Like a creature from another time. It inspires the babies' questions, "What's that?" For their mothers as they ride. But no one stopped to think about the babies Or how they would survive, And we almost lost Detroit this time. -"We Almost Lost Detroit" by Gil...

Detroit, under Coleman young attempted to construct a transportation system quite similarly to the washington metro. If it had worked out, would it be able to help reverse the city's decline, keep its population above 1 million, and possibly even regrow up to 1.5 million? (Basing this scenario...