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Kenosha is a city in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. As of a 2002 census estimate, Kenosha's population is 92,808. It is estimated that Kenosha's population as of 2006 is approximately 96,845. Kenosha is the county seat of Kenosha County, the southeasternmost county in Wisconsin.

On the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan, Kenosha is the fourth largest city in Wisconsin behind Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay. Kenosha is considered to be greater Chicagoland's northernmost suburb at 60 miles distance from the Chicago epicenter; Kenosha is also 35 miles south of Milwaukee

Kenosha is home to Carthage College with over 2,000 fulltime students, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with 5,000 students, mostly commuters, and Gateway Technical College. (The three colleges operate their own on-campus radio stations.) Concordia University Wisconsin, Cardinal Stritch University and Marquette University all maintain Kenosha branch campuses.

Completed in 2000, the Kenosha Public Museum is located on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Its main exhibit is a prehistoric Wooly Mammoth skeleton uncovered in western Kenosha in 1992. The bones revealed new clues about ancient American history; cut marks on the bones indicate that the animals were butchered by humans using stone tools. Carbon dating of those bones indicates their age to be 12,500 years old, one thousand years earlier than the previously accepted presence of humans in the Americas. The museum also displays other Ice Age and fine-art exhibits.

Kenosha's 59,000-square-foot Civil War Museum is under construction and is scheduled to open in the spring of 2008. It will offer an interactive experience in the role of six Midwestern states before, during and after the American Civil War.

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