When the Cuyahoga river caught fire and burned on June 22, 1969, it seemed a nadir for this industrial port on the Great Lakes. Yet Cleveland has also shown resilience in cleaning up its environment and rebuilding identities around downtown sports and cultural attractions, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while reexamining its complex ethnic heritages and relations to surrounding suburbs. Metropolitan population has grown again, to reach 2,911,683 in 1999. The Drew Carey Show (ABC, 1995–) has made it a weekly setting for a sitcom about work and neighborhoods that asserts Cleveland’s identity as a working-class city.