Vilas, Wisconsin

Cottage Grove is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. Its population was 7,303 at the 2020 census. A suburb of Madison, it shares a school district with Monona. The village is located partially within the Town of Cottage Grove. The village was named from a settler's cottage in a grove near the village site.

Hope was an unincorporated community, now a neighborhood, located in the former town of Blooming Grove and Cottage Grove in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. Hope, as of 2020, now lies partially within the city of Madison making it a neighborhood rather than an unincorporated community. Hope does still extend into the unincorporated town of Cottage Grove.

Blackhawk Airfield (FAA LID: 87Y) is a privately owned public use airport in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located 10 nautical miles (12 mi, 19 km) east of the central business district of Madison, near the village of Cottage Grove. This airport was included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility, but is not listed in the 2021–2025 NPIAS.

The Alexander Smith House in Madison, Wisconsin was built in 1848 in Greek Revival style.A historic marker at the house indicates it is Greek Revival in design, and that it served as a halfway house serving travelers between Milwaukee and Prairie de Chien.

Blooming Grove is a town in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,768 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Hope is located in Blooming Grove. Although once much larger, currently the town of Blooming Grove consists of a few scattered neighborhoods and individual properties broken into discontinuous sections by the cities of Madison and Monona. Blooming Grove will be dissolved and annexed into the city of Madison by 2027.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Wisconsin responsible for regulating agriculture, trade, and commercial activity in the state. The department is administered by a secretary who is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. The department is directed and supervised by a nine-member Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, who serve staggered six year terms and are appointed by the governor. Two of the board members are required to be consumer representatives, while the other seven are required to have an agricultural background.

Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) in Madison, Wisconsin is a private Christian school. It is one of the largest non-sectarian private schools in the Madison area. ALCS was founded by Lake City Church (formerly Madison Gospel Tabernacle) in 1978 under the leadership of Pastor Warren Heckman. ALCS was established to be a community Christian school and welcomes families from a variety of churches. ALCS is a K–12 school which shares its 28-acre (110,000 m2) campus with City Church (a union of Lake City Church and Mad City Church) and Campus for Kids, an infant to 4K child care center. While the three ministries are closely related, the students and staff represent over 50 churches and many neighborhoods in Madison and its surrounding communities. Abundant Life Christian School and High Point Christian School consolidated in 2012 to form Madison Christian Schools - one school, two campuses.

Madison Media Institute (MMI) was a private for-profit media arts college in Madison, Wisconsin. Until 2017, it ran a branch location in Edina, Minnesota. The school offered associate and baccalaureate degree programs in video, music production, game design, media technology, graphic design, and web and entertainment business. MMI closed in 2018.

The Oaks Golf Course is a public, 18-hole layout located in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, United States. It opened in 2003. It was named one of Golf Digest magazine's "best new courses" in 2004.The course has six par 3s, five par 5s, and nine par 4s for a total par of 71. The Oaks uses bent grass for its tees, fairways, and greens and was designed with the natural landscape in mind, according to course architect Greg Martin.

Door Creek (also Buckeye, Deer Creek) is an unincorporated community located in the town of Cottage Grove, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.

WJQM (93.1 FM) is a radio station serving Madison, Wisconsin and surrounding areas. The station is owned by Mid-West Family Broadcasting and launched a rhythmic contemporary format as "106.7 Jamz" in January 2007 before the move to 93.1 FM in October 2008. Over the years WJQM has shifted to a more Urban Contemporary focus with some rhythmic contemporary songs remaining in the rotation. WJQM is an affiliate of The Breakfast Club morning show, the Bootleg Kev show and is the only urban focused commercial radio station in Wisconsin outside of the Milwaukee radio market. WJQM features shows such as The Throwback Lunch which features old school and some throwback rhythmic hits, an afternoon mix show hosted by locally based DJ Fusion and features Madison and Wisconsin based hip hop and R&B artists in features dubbed "local love" as well as a show featuring local talent on Sunday nights.

The Wisconsin butter fire, also known as the butter flood, great cheese fire, and great butter fire, was a fire and flood of processed meat and dairy that began on May 3, 1991, at a large storage facility in Madison, Wisconsin. The fire continued for eight days; there were no fatalities, but it caused millions of dollars in damages. The incident is known as the biggest commercial fire in Wisconsin state history and the Madison Fire Department's biggest and most expensive challenge.