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===21st century=== [[File:Downtown chattanooga.JPG|thumbnail|right|Downtown Chattanooga, viewed from [[Lookout Mountain]]]] [[File:Typeface sample Chatype.png|thumbnail|right|''Chatype'', the typeface used by Chattanooga]] Chattanooga launched the first government-provided one-gigabit-per-second Internet service in the United States in September 2010, provided through the city-owned utility [[EPB]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/technology/13broadband.html?_r=2&sq=chattanooga&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1285153403-FFzkcK6fh2uW7gJerggOzA|title=Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=September 12, 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 7, 2011}}</ref> In August 2012, Chattanooga developed its own [[typeface]], called ''Chatype'', which marks the first time a municipality has its own typeface in the United States and the first [[crowd-funded]], custom-made typeface in the world.<ref name="Chatype bursts on the scene in Chattanooga">{{cite web|url=http://www.nooga.com/157144/chatype-used-everywhere-from-library-to-new-downtown-banners/|title=Chatype used everywhere from library to new downtown banners|last=Morrison|first=Chloe|date=September 6, 2012|publisher=Nooga.com|access-date=March 12, 2013|archive-date=April 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402152308/http://www.nooga.com/157144/chatype-used-everywhere-from-library-to-new-downtown-banners|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Chattanooga from A to Z">{{cite web|url=http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/mar/25/chattanooga-from-a-to-z/|title=Chattanooga Now 2012|last=Denton|first=Lisa|date=March 25, 2012|work=Chattanooga Times Free Press|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> On July 16, 2015, five people β four U.S. Marines and one sailor β were murdered and two more were wounded in [[2015 Chattanooga shootings|shootings at two U.S. military facilities in Chattanooga]]. The perpetrator was Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, an [[Islamic terrorism|Islamic terrorist]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chattanooga-shootings-gunman-id-d-as-muhammad-youssef-abdulazeez-1.3154905|title=Chattanooga shootings: Gunman ID'd as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez|date=July 16, 2015|publisher=CBC News|access-date=July 16, 2015}}</ref> On November 21, 2016, a school bus carrying students from Woodmore Elementary School [[2016 Chattanooga school bus crash|crashed in the Brainerd neighborhood]], killing 6 and injuring 23.<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/us/tennessee-chattanooga-school-bus-accident/index.html|title=6 dead in Tennessee school bus crash| last1=Sterling| first1=Joe| last2=Simon| first2=Darran| work=CNN| publisher=Cable News Network|date=November 21, 2016|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> In March 2018, the driver, an employee of [[Durham School Services]], was convicted of six counts of criminally negligent homicide, 11 counts of reckless aggravated assault, seven counts of assault, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and illegally using his phone while driving.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/bus-driver-found-guilty-of-criminally-negligent-homicide-in-crash-that-killed-6-kids/51-524203588|title=Bus driver found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in crash that killed 6 kids|work=WBIR-TV|access-date=June 16, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> The crash reignited the debate about whether [[seat belt]]s should be required in school buses.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pak|first=Nataly|date=May 23, 2018|title=NTSB changes tune about seat belts on school buses after deadly crashes|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/ntsb-recommends-seat-belts-school-buses-deadly-crashes/story?id=55367225|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|location=New York City|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> On June 5, 2022, there was a [[mass shooting]] in Chattanooga that left three dead and injured 11.<ref name="Three people dead, 14 shot outside nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-people-dead-14-shot-nightclub-chattanooga-tennessee-rcna32028|title=Three people dead, 14 shot outside nightclub in Chattanooga, Tennessee|date=June 5, 2022|publisher=nbcnews.com|access-date=June 5, 2022}}</ref>
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