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From Ali to Zorn: The People Behind Louisville’s Street Names

Drive anywhere in Louisville and you’re driving through a history lesson. Our streets are named after mayors, developers, soldiers, an editor, a congressman, and a Supreme Court justice. Here are the names of some of Louisville’s streets and avenues (and an expressway) and the people who earned their place on our maps. Muhammad Ali Boulevard…

Famous Louisvillians

From Green to Liberty: The Louisville Streets That Changed Their Names

Why so many streets here carry a different name than the one they started with.
Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley: The Unlikely Friendship of Two Kings

A teenager here idolized Elvis. Years later the two Kings met in Las Vegas, and Elvis gave him a robe.
Jonathan Wolff: The Louisville Composer Behind the Seinfeld Theme

How a kid from Atherton High turned four seconds of slap bass into a career.
Kelly Fisher

A modeling career at the top of the fashion industry, and the very public end of it.

World’s Highest Standard of Living: A Louisville Photograph With a Life of Its Own

In February 1937, Margaret Bourke-White photographed a Red Cross relief line in Louisville, in front of a billboard promising the American Dream. It became one of the most reproduced news photographs of the twentieth century. The photograph shows eighteen people, mostly Black men and women, standing in line with baskets and pails. They are waiting…
Louisville in a 1,100-page Nutshell

The definitive 1,100-page reference book on the city, more than a decade in the making.
Daisy Buchanan and The Great Gatsby

She never existed, but the Louisville that shaped Fitzgerald’s most famous heroine certainly did.
King Louis XVI of France

The city takes its name from a French king who never once set foot in it.
Wright Tower

A unique, suburban office tower designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s own son-in-law.
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

Long before Louisville existed, a French explorer claimed the whole Mississippi watershed for a king who never saw it.

Will Oldham

Bonnie “Prince” Billy and the rotating cast of names behind one of Louisville’s most restless songwriters.
Lionel Hampton

Born here and gone before he could remember it, then ninety-four years spent defining the vibraphone.
My Morning Jacket

Three decades of reverb-drenched American rock, and almost every chapter of it runs through Louisville.

Bourbon Basics

Everything to know about the spirit that made Kentucky famous, from mash bill to barrel char.
Louisville’s Best Bourbon Distillery Tours (Any Time of Year)

The best distillery tours in and around Louisville, any time of year.
Louisville Bourbon City Stays: Where to Sleep Inside the Bourbon Story

Where to sleep inside the bourbon story, from a Whiskey Row barrel house to a pharmacist’s building.