{"id":286201,"date":"2026-09-15T02:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:56:07","slug":"cleveland-city-council-passes-resolution-renaming-portion-of-lake-erie-gulf-of-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286201\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland City Council passes resolution renaming portion of Lake Erie \u2018Gulf Of Cleveland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Cleveland City Council voted to rename a portion of Lake Erie the \u201cGulf of Cleveland\u201d at Monday night\u2019s council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city said this is a direct response to President Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, according to Cleveland Council member Kris Harsh, who introduced the resolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The \u201cGulf of Cleveland\u201d will stretch from the easternmost to the westernmost points of the city\u2019s shoreline and two miles into Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland\u2019s departments are to refer to this area by its new name and include the new name on any city-generated maps and in any city documents, according to the resolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City Council will forward this renaming to global map-making corporations like Apple and Google and expects them to begin using \u201cGulf of Cleveland,\u201d as they have with \u201cGulf of America\u201d and \u201cLake America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Read the resolution below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city says they don\u2019t want to be \u201cleft behind\u201d in a \u201cdeluge of rebrandings.\u201d They are even planning to mail companies like Apple and Google to demand they change their digital maps to show the new name!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) &#8211; Cleveland City Council voted to rename a portion of Lake Erie the \u201cGulf of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-286201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}