Science Town, USA: Also the place where the zipper was invented.

A panel of scientists has produced a list of the ten most significant scientific achievements developed in the Chicago area:

1. The first controlled nuclear reaction
2. Invention of the cell phone
3. Hormone treatment for prostate and breast cancer
4. Invention of magnetic recording
5. Developing treatment for malaria
6. The first skyscraper
7. Discovery of the top quark
8. Discovering chromosome abnormalities in cancer
9. Inventing carbon-14 dating
10. Discovering how the human body makes insulin

(Not sure if I consider #2 a noteworthy achievement, but there it is...)

Chicago also has an annual program called Science in the City. Wouldn't it be cool to do this for the Twin Cities, too?