Boston

Cuyahoga County's economy has changed. Nonprofit medical institutions now dominate in a county where manufacturing was once king. Now some are asking, "Who pays property taxes when your economy is dominated by tax-exempt nonprofits?"

It was on this date in 1829, the luxurious Tremont House hotel opened in downtown Boston. And on this date in 1859, abolitionist John Brown lead a raid on a federal armory in Harpers Ferry.