Editing Lima, Ohio (section)

===Late 20th century to present===
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The area's expanding population in the 1940s and 1950s brought hospital and school expansion. St Rita's Hospital, founded in 1918, opened a seven-story addition in 1948. With voter support, school leadership built six new elementary schools and the new centralized [[Lima Senior High School]] during the 1950s. Lima's industrial production grew in the decade. During the [[Korean War]], the Lima Tank Depot resumed manufacturing, at a level expanded from World War II standards.

During the 1960s, Lima experienced both growth and community unrest. In 1962, a new Allen County Airport was built in [[Perry Township, Allen County, Ohio|Perry Township]]. With the passage of the city [[income tax]] in 1966, Lima constructed a new facility for the Lima Police Department. Also during the 1960s, The [[Ohio State University]] established a regional campus in Lima. Civil rights issues had rocked Lima in the 1950s, perhaps most prominently in the efforts to [[Desegregation in the United States|desegregate]] the city's only public swimming pool in Schoonover Park. Civil unrest continued in the 1960s and into the 1970s.

In January 1969, a [[crude oil]] line in south Lima ruptured, causing {{convert|77000|gal|litre}} of oil to escape into the city's sewer system. Explosions and fire erupted from sewers as 7,000 residents were evacuated. Governor [[Jim Rhodes]] ordered the [[Ohio National Guard]] into the area to maintain order. In August 1970, further conflict erupted when a black woman was killed by police as she tried to prevent the arrest of a juvenile. Several officers were wounded in the violence that followed. Mayor Christian P. Morris declared a [[state of emergency]] and the National Guard was again called in to aid local police.

During the 1970s and 1980s, several industries left Lima, part of the "[[Rust Belt]]" decline affecting all of Ohio. In April 1971, the last "Cincinnatian," of the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] stopped in Lima. The Cincinnatian was an iconic lightweight [[streamliner]] serving the B&O's Detroit line from Cincinnati. Lima had also been served by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]'s "Broadway Limited," a high-speed New York to Chicago service, the "Capital Limited" Chicago to Washington D.C. service, via Pittsburgh, the [[Nickel Plate Road]]'s "Blue Arrow," and "Blue Dart," which provided high-speed service to Buffalo, Cleveland and St. Louis, and the [[Erie Lackawanna]]'s "Lake Cities," which provided service to New York, Cleveland, and Chicago with direct service both ways. Many of these services were maintained by [[Amtrak]] until 1991, when the former Erie Lackawanna and Pennsylvania Railroad mainlines between New York and Chicago were downgraded.

In 1973, Lima's District [[Tuberculosis]] Center, which served five counties, closed its doors. [[Superior Coach Company]], once the nation's largest producer of buses, closed in 1981, as did Clark Equipment. Airfoil Textron closed in 1985, and Sundstrand (formerly Westinghouse) followed ten years later. By the mid-1990s, Lima had lost more than 8,000 jobs. Lima's population dropped from 52,000 in the 1970s to 45,000 in 1999. Lima's plight and its subsequent efforts to redefine itself were captured in the [[PBS]] documentary ''Lost in Middle America.''