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Chippewa Falls is a city located on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 12,925 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Chippewa County. Chippewa Falls was incorporated as a city in 1869.

Chippewa Falls is also known for being the birthplace of Seymour Cray and the location of the headquarters for the original Cray Research. Chippewa Falls is the home of Leinenkugel's Beer, brewed by the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company and the Heyde Center for the Arts, a showcase venue for local, regional, national and international artists and performers.

The titular character played by Diane Keaton in Woody Allen's Oscar-winning film Annie Hall (1977) hails from Chippewa Falls. The sequence where Alvy Singer meets Annie's family takes place in the town.

Chippewa Falls is also mentioned in another best-picture winner, Titanic, as the birthplace of Jack Dawson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), where he recalled (anachronistically) having fished as a boy on Lake Wissota, a man-made lake which was not created until 1917 -- five years after the Titanic sank.

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