Editing Irving, Texas (section)

==History==
[[File:Flag_of_Irving,_Texas.svg|Former flag in use from October 16, 1975–October 8, 2009<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2002-07-01 |title=Irving, Texas |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/raven/content/raven_2002_42257_0160_0161 |journal=Raven: A Journal of Vexillology |language=en |volume=9/10 |pages=160–161 |doi=10.5840/raven2002/20039/1067 |via=Philosophy Documentaton Center}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-10-09 |title=Council Wrap: City gets a new logo amid a handful of 5-2 votes |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2009/10/09/council-wrap-city-gets-a-new-logo-amid-a-handful-of-5-2-votes/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |language=en}}</ref>|thumb]]
{{See also|Timeline of Irving, Texas}}
Irving was founded in 1903 by J.O. "Otto" Schulze and Otis Brown. It is believed literary author [[Washington Irving]] was a favorite of Netta Barcus Brown, and consequently the name of the town site, Irving, was chosen. Irving began in 1889 as an area called Gorbit, and in 1894 the name changed to Kit.<ref name="City of Irving - Irving Archives">{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofirving.org/1993/Between-the-Forks |title=Between the Forks |website=City of Irving – Irving Archives}}</ref> Irving was incorporated April 14, 1914, with Otis Brown as the first mayor.

By the late nineteenth century the Irving area was the site of [[church (building)|churches]], two [[cotton gin]]s, a [[blacksmith]] shop and a general store. The Irving district [[Public school (government funded)|public school]] system dates to the 1909 establishment of Kit and Lively schools. Population growth was slow and sometimes halting, with only 357 residents in 1925, but a significant increase began in the 1930s.

By the early 1960s the city had a population of approximately 45,000. A number of [[manufacturing]] plants operated in Irving, along with [[transportation]], [[retail]] and [[financial]] businesses. The [[University of Dallas]] in Irving opened in 1956, and [[Texas Stadium]] was completed in 1971 as the home field of the [[Dallas Cowboys]]. The [[Chateau Theater]] opened in 1964 as part of a chain of premium, dollar, and drive-in theaters that stretched across North Texas and Oklahoma.

[[Delta Air Lines Flight 191]] crashed in Irving on August 2, 1985.<ref name="FW Star Telegram - Delta Flight 191">{{cite web |url=http://www.star-telegram.com/living/family/moms/article3825884.html |title=After 25 years, D/FW Airport unveils memorial to Delta Flight 191 |website=Fort Worth Star Telegram}}</ref>

Irving's population reached 155,037 in 1990 and the United States Census Bureau estimated 236,607 residents in 2016, a 3.5 percent population increase over 2013 census estimates.<ref name="quickfacts.census.gov"/>

In 2000, an [[Oshman's Sporting Goods]] store was robbed by the "[[Texas Seven]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cityofirving.org/police/memorial-pages/timeline-of-texas-prison-escape.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402202410/http://cityofirving.org/police/memorial-pages/timeline-of-texas-prison-escape.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-04-02|title=Timeline of Texas Prison Escape|date=2012-04-02|access-date=2019-02-21}}</ref> In 2011, the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas opened. Four years later high-school student [[Ahmed Mohamed clock incident|Ahmed Mohamed]] was the subject of a [[hoax bomb]] incident which ignited allegations of [[racial profiling]] and [[Islamophobia]] from many media and commentators.

In 2019, Irving completed its construction of an entertainment district in Las Colinas with the opening of the Westin Irving Convention Center Hotel.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Westin Irving Convention Center Hotel Opens |url=https://www.cityofirving.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=5834 |website=City of Irving, Texas |access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref> The entertainment district also includes the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irvingconventioncenter.com |title=Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas |website=Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas |access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref> and the Toyota Music Factory, an entertainment complex with numerous restaurants, an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the Texas Lottery Plaza open-air performance stage and the Pavilion at the Toyota Music Factory concert venue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://toyotamusicfactory.com/ |title=More Than Music. Toyota Music Factory.|website=Toyota Music Factory |access-date=7 May 2019}}</ref>

On May 8, 2020, the city's local poultry plant run by [[Westfield, Wisconsin]]-based Brakebush Bros. Inc reported 40 cases of [[COVID-19]] among its workers during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Texas|2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/05/08/40-workers-at-irving-poultry-plant-tested-positive-with-covid/|title=40 workers at Irving poultry plant test positive for COVID-19|date=May 8, 2020|work=[[The Dallas Morning News]]}}</ref>