Milwaukee in the 1950s and '60s had an ambitious construction checklist. A sports arena. A major-league baseball stadium. A new zoo. A freestanding natural history museum. A horticultural center. A ...

Milwaukee hasn't had a lot of major spring floods in recent years. Summer is another subject (we're looking at you, 2010 and 1986). But major summer floods are a big-storm thing, according to Rob ...