SS Milwaukee the Great Lakes" in 1968. As a result of the loss of the SS "Milwaukee", the Grand Trunk needed a new train ferry. The replacement was the , launched November 25, 1930. The replacement vessel is now a museum ship and National Historic Landmark. In April 1972, the wreck was located in Lake Michigan, seven miles northeast of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, three miles offshore (on a line between Milwaukee and Grand Haven), at , in of water. In March 2006, the History Channel television program "Deep Sea Detectives" premiered an episode entitled "Train Wreck in Lake Michigan", which profiled the loss
Milwaukee "inner-ring" suburbs. In the 1920s Chicago gangster activity came north to Milwaukee during the Prohibition era. Al Capone, noted Chicago mobster, owned a home in the Milwaukee suburb Brookfield, where moonshine was made. The house still stands on a street named after Capone. By 1960, Milwaukee had grown to become one of the largest cities in the United States. Its population peaked at 741,324. In 1960, the Census Bureau reported city's population as 91.1% white and 8.4% black. By the late 1960s, Milwaukee's population had started to decline as people moved to suburbs, aided by federal subsidies of highways. They