Today, with programs and residences in many cities, it is one of the United States' largest providers of services to troubled children. If you are job-hunting, consider that Omaha's unemployment rate has been under 3 percent for years. Henry Fonda began his career at the urging of Marlon Brando's mother. Former U.S. President Gerald Ford and Malcom X were also born in Omaha. Omaha is the smallest city in the country with two medical schools, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University.
Sports are big in Omaha.
Every year, the NCAA s College World Series draws baseball fans from across the nation to Rosenbatt Stadium. Omaha is also home to AAA Omaha Royals baseball team and the Omaha Lancers of the U.S. Hockey League. Peter Kiewit Sons Inacom Corporation Frontier Omaha was a gateway to the West. In 1846, the Morman Church established Winter Quarters as a stopping place en route to Utah. Union Pacific Railroad's Harriman Dispatch Center in the riverfront area is a high-tech nerve center that controls thousands of miles of track throughout Union Pacific's 23 state system.