HISTORY FACTS Cincinnati Like, Rome, Cincinnati is surrounded by seven hills: Mount Adams, Mount Auburn, Walnut Hills, Fairmount, Fairview Heights, Clifton Heights and Mt. Harrison. Also, like Rome, Cincinnati was named for the Roman hero, Cincinnatus. General Arthur St. Claire chose the name in honor of George Washington, who was president of the Society of Cincinnatus, in Philadelphia. The Queen City is famous for its Cincinnati style chili. More than 140 chili restaurants can be found here. It is estimated that Cincinnatians consume more than 2 million pounds of chili and 850,000 pounds of shredded cheese per year. The Central Trust Tower (now the PNC Bank building) was immortalized in the opening sequence of the popular soap opera The Edge of Night from 1956-1984. It was built in 1913 and designed by Cass Gilbert who also designed the Woolworth building in New York City. WKRP in Cincinnati, the Emmy award winning 1970’s TV series, featured the daily happenings at a struggling fictional radio station here. Newport, Kentucky was once the premier gaming destination in the U.S. Many well known gangsters spent much time here including Lucky Luciano and Bugsy Siegel, who later developed Las Vegas. Cincinnati is known for its Goetta, a traditional German dish made from ground meat and steel cut oats that is seasoned in various ways. Many immigrants used Goetta to stretch the meat they had on hand to feed more mouths during hard times. One of Donald Trump’s first projects, while he was still in college, was the revitalization of the foreclosed Swifton Village apartment complex in Cincinnati, in 1962. The films Eight Men Out, Rain Man, Seabiscuit, Elizabethtown and Ides of March were all filmed here in Cincinnati.
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