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Five governors of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania who have served since 1995, (left to right): Mark Schweiker, Tom Ridge, Tom Wolf, Tom Corbett and Ed Rendell, pose in front of the east facade of the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg at Wolf's January 2015 gubernatorial inauguration. The 1790 constitution abolished the council and ...
Humphrey Morrey. Formation. 1691. Salary. $218,000. Website. Office of the Mayor. The mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia. The current mayor of Philadelphia is Cherelle Parker, who is the first woman to hold the position.
Philadelphia Phillies ( MLB) (2004–present) Citizens Bank Park is a baseball stadium located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the city's South Philadelphia Sports Complex. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball 's Philadelphia Phillies. The stadium opened April 3, 2004, and hosted its first regular season baseball game on April 12 of ...
According to datasets published by the City of Philadelphia in 2021, Bustleton was the neighborhood with the most COVID-19 deaths in the city. Approximately 0.6% of the total population of Bustleton perished from the virus. As of November 2021, the City of Philadelphia reported a total of 2,229 infections in its prisons during the pandemic.
Holmesburg Prison. Coordinates: 40.037123°N 75.018779°W. Holmesburg Prison seen from the air. Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Ave in the ...
April 11, 2024 at 3:38 AM. Three individuals were shot and five have been arrested after gunfire broke out at a Ramadan event in West Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, prompting police to flock ...
The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of the First and Second ...
Pennsylvania State Capitol. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Website. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts.