Management of a Wisconsin park listed on the National Register of Historic Places has been returned to the state in hopes of better preserving more than two dozen Native American effigy mounds.

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Officials at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Milwaukee say they have no desire to again sue the contractor found responsible for the devastating fire that destroyed much of their historic church last year.

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Maybe you know the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for its magnolias, crabapples or lilacs in the spring. Or, for its abundance of wildlife and effigy mounds.

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When the producers of the fledgling Amazon series “Patriot” wanted to film scenes supposedly set in Milwaukee, they chose to do the shooting in Chicagoland.

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Milwaukee officials are making a push to have the Mitchell Street Historic District added to a federally recognized list in the hopes of enabling property owners there to take advantage of tax incentives.

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Leaders of four communities along the shores of Lake Michigan say a national marine sanctuary would have a large economic impact on the region's tourism.

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No limit would be set on the amount of historic rehabilitation tax credits that the state could issue in a given year under a motion put forward by Republican lawmakers on Thursday.

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A pair of Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing the state to offer up to $5 million worth of historic-preservation tax credits for every qualified project, rather than following the governor's recommendation to place a cap on the total amount of credits that can be awarded in a given year.

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Wisconsin state officials awarded about $41.7 million worth of historical-preservation tax credits from the start of 2014 to Feb. 23 this year.

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Devil's Lake State Park is officially an historic place.

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