Ypsilanti, MI
Local News
- Live Election Results: 2026 Michigan Midterm — The Eastern Echo
- Early morning apartment fire displaces a dozen families in Ypsilanti Township — ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4
- Fire destroys Ypsilanti Township apartment building; 15 people left homeless — CBS News
- Your Ann Arbor area weekend events for Nov. 5-8 — MLive.com
- In Michigan, a Black conservative group pushes Jewish and pro-Israel messaging — Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Official Local Resources
City of Ypsilanti · Washtenaw County · michigan.gov · Michigan Secretary of State
Ypsilanti (/ˌɪpsəˈlænti/ IP-sə-LAN-tee), commonly shortened to Ypsi (/ˈɪpsiː/ IP-see), is a city and college town located on the Huron River in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city’s population was 20,648. The city is bounded to the north by Superior Charter Township and on the west, south, and east by Ypsilanti Charter Township (a separately governed municipality). Ypsilanti is a part of the Ann Arbor–Ypsilanti metropolitan area, the Huron River Valley, and the Detroit–Warren–Ann Arbor combined statistical area.
Ypsilanti is known for being the home of Eastern Michigan University (formerly the Michigan State Normal College) since the university’s founding as Michigan’s first normal school (teachers’ college) in 1849, its location on the historic Detroit–Chicago Road (now US Highway 12), its historic Depot Town commercial district, and for its distinctive Ypsilanti Water Tower constructed in 1890. The city is closely associated with Ford Motor Company‘s Willow Run Bomber Plant which manufactured over 8,500 Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers during World War II; Ypsilanti’s Ford Lake was created when Ford Motor Company dammed the Huron River to generate hydroelectric power. Ypsilanti is also home to the first Domino’s Pizza location, located near EMU’s McKenny Student Union in South Campus.