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Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE)

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Cleveland is a city in the state of Ohio is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border. In Cleveland, Interstate 90 serves as the Innerbelt at the confluence of the northern termini of Interstate 71 and Interstate 77.Cleveland's businesses have diversified into the service economy, including the financial services, insurance, and healthcare sectors. Cleveland is also noted for its association with rock music; the city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Cleveland possesses a humid continental climate, with warm and humid summers and cold, snowy winters. Spring and autumn bring pleasantly mild temperatures.

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) is the city's major airport and an international airport that serves as one of three main hubs for Continental Airlines. Other airlines that service this airport include Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines and America West Airlines.

The Port of Cleveland, located at the Cuyahoga River's mouth, is a major bulk freight terminal on Lake Erie receiving much of the raw materials used by the region's manufacturing industries

Professional sports teams include the Cleveland Indians (Major League Baseball), Cleveland Browns (National Football League), and the Cleveland Cavaliers (National Basketball Association).

Cleveland is home to a number of colleges and universities. Most prominent among these is Case Western Reserve University, a world-renowned research and teaching institution located in University Circle. University Circle also contains Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. Cleveland State University (CSU), based in downtown Cleveland, is the city's public four-year university. Cuyahoga Community College, the county's two-year higher education institution, and Myers University, a private four-year school that focuses on business education.

The Playhouse Square Center in Cleveland which includes the State, Palace, Allen, Hanna, and Ohio theaters is known as the Theater District of Downtown Cleveland. Playhouse Square's resident performing arts companies include the Cleveland Opera, the Ohio Ballet, and the Great Lakes Theater Festival. The center also hosts various Broadway musicals, special concerts, speaking engagements, and other events throughout the year. One Playhouse Square was originally used as the broadcast studios of WJW Radio, where disc jockey Alan Freed first popularized the term "rock and roll". Cleveland is also home to the Cleveland Orchestra, widely considered one of the finest orchestras in the world, and often referred to as one of the "Big Five" major orchestras in the United States. Some other places to visit can be found at University Circle, a 550-acre concentration of cultural, educational, and medical institutions, including the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Western Reserve Historical Society.

Cleveland has served as the filming location for several noteworthy movies, including The Fortune Cookie (1967) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, the Academy Award-winning Deer Hunter (1978), Antwone Fisher (2002), and the holiday favorite A Christmas Story (1983). Scenes for Spider-Man 3 were filmed in Cleveland in April 2006. The city was also the setting for the popular sitcom, The Drew Carey Show which starred Cleveland native Drew Carey.

For shoppers, a visit to the The Galleria at Erieview in downtown Cleveland is home to over twenty stores, a sit down restaurant, vibrant food court, and a variety of services for downtown dwellers and office workers. The Galleria is within walking distance to Cleveland Attractions, such as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Great Lakes Science Center. The Arcade, located between Superior and Euclid Avenues in downtown Cleveland, is one of America's first indoor shopping malls and Cleveland's first skyscraper. Today, the building houses a Hyatt Hotel, retail shops, and a food court. The Avenue at Tower City Center is a beautifully renovated train terminal that now houses over 100 specialty stores, fine and casual dining restaurants, two hotels and entertainment venues. A large food court and an 11 screen cinema are also on site. Some of the specialty stores include Brooks Brothers, The Children's Place, Champs Sports, Charlotte Russe, The Cleveland Store and Victoria's Secret.

During your visit to Cleveland, a not-to-miss Cleveland ethnic landmark is the West Side Market, a colorful indoor/outdoor market, located in the near West Side neighborhood of Ohio City. No place in Cleveland combines more cultures under one roof than the market with more than 180 vendors offering ethnic delicacies and an amazing variety of fresh bakery, produce, dairy products, meats and seafood. Cleveland's many immigrant groups have long played an important role in defining the regional cuisine. Polish and Eastern European foods, such as beer, pierogi, and kielbasa are popular in and around the city.

Cleveland's Baricelli Inn has long been an internationally recognized restaurant under the direction of world-renowned Cleveland Chef Paul Minnillo. Other fine dining in Cleveland can be found at the Sushi Rock Restaurant, Blue Point Grille, Lola Restaurant, Gusto! Ristorante Italiano, Cleveland Chophouse, Fahrenheit Restaurant and the Pier W Restaurant with a spectacular Lake Erie view. More familiar restaurants include Denny's, Bob Evans, the Olive Garden, the Outback Steakhouse, the Longhorn Restaurant and the Internatonal House of Pancakes

Popular hotels in Cleveland include Comfort Inn Downtown Cleveland, Embassy Suites Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland Hampton Inn Downtown, Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, Holiday Inn Select City Center Lakeshore, Cleveland , Hyatt Regency Superior at the Arcade Cleveland, Residence Inn by Marriot Cleveland Downtown, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Cleveland, Ritz-Carlton Cleveland, Sheraton Cleveland City Center Hotel, Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Gateway, Radisson Hotel Cleveland Gateway and Wyndham Playhouse Square Hotel.

Cleveland currently has a bus and rail mass transit system operated by the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA). The rail portion is officially called the RTA Rapid Transit, but is referred to by local residents as The Rapid. National inter-city scheduled bus service is provided at a Greyhound station, located just behind Playhouse Square theater district. Lakefront Trailways provides regional inter-city bus service to popular destinations from their terminal south of Cleveland in Brookpark, Ohio. Taxi service includes Yellow Cab, United Cab and ABC Taxi.