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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Theodore Roosevelt delivered a campaign speech here in 1912 with a would-be assassin's bullet still in his chest - refusing treatment until he finished. The Miller High Life Theatre, at 500 West Kilbourn Avenue in downtown Milwaukee, opened as the Milwaukee Auditorium on 21 September 1909 and has anchored the city's civic life ever since. The origin was civic self-help: after fire destroyed the Industrial Exposition Building in 1905, Milwaukee's business community formed a stock corporation and...