You actually LIVED in Cleveland, and didn't know it was the Cuyahoga River that caught fire (along with the Mayor's hair, but that's another story)????
The Cuyahoga River is pretty clean now, and so is Lake Erie. Most of the steel mills along that river are no longer spewing their waste into the river, and a lot of all that steel production has also been moved to China.
Still, the City of Cleveland, is NOT where anyone would want to live, just like ANY Major City (Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, etc.) that's deteriorated as the decent people have long ago fled to suburbia.
“You actually LIVED in Cleveland, and didn’t know it was the Cuyahoga River that caught fire...”
Yes, I did realize, but “Mistake By The River” doesn’t have as nice of a ring as “Mistake By The Lake”.
I agree with the burb comment. It is a sad situation.