La ville de Chippewa Falls est le siège du comté de Chippewa, dans l'État du Wisconsin, aux États-Unis. Le Bureau du recensement des États-Unis lui assigne une superficie de 30,9 km2. Cette ville, comme son nom l'indique, s'est édifiée au niveau d'une cascade de la Chippewa River, qui elle-même tire son nom de la tribu des Amérindiens Ojibwés.
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Chippewa Valley Regional Airport is a public use airport in Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States.
Chippewa Valley Regional Airport is a non-hub primary commercial service airport owned by Eau Claire County and located three miles north of downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It serves as the largest airport in northwestern Wisconsin, covering 1,100 acres with two runways and providing facilities for general aviation, air cargo, and commercial flights. The airport offers scheduled service to Chicago O'Hare through United Express, operated by SkyWest Airlines, and seasonal service to Florida through Sun Country Airlines.
It is the largest airport in the 30-county northern Wisconsin area and serves primarily the Chippewa Valley region, operating on a budget approved by a commission equally representing the interests of Chippewa, Dunn and Eau Claire counties.
The airport is mainly used for general aviation and business travel; the Eau Claire-based Menards corporation uses CVRA to base their fleet of aircraft to serve their stores throughout the Midwest. It is occasionally used as an alternative landing site for flights bound for Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. As of December 2022, only one commercial airline, Sun Country Airlines, provides service for CVRA to Minneapolis International. In December 2024, United Airlines announced the start of regional service to its hub at Chicago O'Hare.
The airport is included in the Federal Aviation Administration National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029, in which it is categorized as a non-hub primary commercial service facility. It is the eighth busiest of eight commercial airports in Wisconsin in terms of passengers served.
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WBIZ-FM is a top 40 radio station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia. The studios are located in Eau Claire while the transmitter is located near County Highway T and 60th Ave north of Eau Claire.
The station airs programming from iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks such as On Air with Ryan Seacrest, On the Move with Enrique Santos, Most Requested Live with Romeo, American Top 40, iHeartRadio Countdown, and The Vibe with Tanya and EJ.
WBIZ-FM also serves as Eau Claire's radio home of the Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers football.
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North High School is one of two public high schools in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the other being Memorial High School. It was founded in 1962.
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WAYY is a commercial radio station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It broadcasts a sports radio format and is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting. Programming is mostly from Infinity Sports Network. It also carries Milwaukee Brewers baseball and Milwaukee Bucks basketball. The radio studios and offices are in Altoona, Wisconsin.
By day, WAYY transmits with 5,000 watts non-directional. But to protect other stations on 790 AM from interference, it reduces power at night to 123 watts. WAYY's transmitter is on Black Avenue at Tower Drive in Seymour, Wisconsin. Programming is also heard on 185-watt FM translator W286CK at 105.1 MHz in Eau Claire.
Chippewa Falls, lieu de naissance de Seymour Cray, le père des supercalculateurs, est le siège social historique de la Sté Cray Research et bénéficie également de la présence de Silicon Graphics. La ville est également célèbre aux États-Unis pour ses brasseries (Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co.) et son centre d'arts et essai (Heyde Center for the Arts).