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La Crosse

American  
[luh kraws, kros] / lə ˈkrɔs, ˈkrɒs /

noun

  1. a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.


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She had a packed schedule: first at Oktoberfest in the city of La Crosse and then at the annual Apple Festival in the small town of Gays Mills, about an hour’s drive away.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026

Tiffany was coming home from a dinner in La Crosse County when the plane suddenly lost power as it approached Wausau Downtown Airport, he said on Sunday.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

If you want to base yourself out of the region’s hub, La Crosse, a good option is the Charmant Hotel, a former candy factory, which combines comfy digs with sensational cocktails on the Mississippi River.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025

Her La Crosse event was part of daylong trip to the battleground state that was focused on official and campaign duties centered on health care and reproductive rights.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

At the close of the war he returned to South Carolina as a reconstructionist, but in two or three years came North, and located at La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he edited the La Crosse Star.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom

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