Cleveland Sitting on the shores of Lake Erie, Cleveland is about as Midwest as Midwest gets. Part of a cluster that includes Akron, Youngstown, Canton and Toledo, Cleveland is no longer Ohio's biggest city (a distinction that now belongs to Columbus), but it is Ohio's center of culture and activity. DowntownIt is hard to imagine many places in the world having undergone the type of facelift Cleveland has seen over the past 15 years or so. From the dirty, damp and dingy steel town of the early 1980s has emerged a shiny new lakeside spectacle. A skyline once filled with smokestacks now boasts glowing towers, shiny stadiums and a host of modern museums and ...Cleveland Overview