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Spokane, Washington, is the 2nd-largest city in Washington state. It is home to Gonzaga University, as well as the Memorial Cup-winning Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey League and the Spokane Indians of the Short-Season A Northwest League. Spokane is home of a large office of US Bank as well as the Spokane Empire of the Indoor Football League. The Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena plays host to the Chiefs, Empire, and many concerts and other events

Before 1800s
Humans first entered the Spokane area about 3,000 years before the end of the last Ice Age. About 1700, a French explorer asked the Couer d'Alene tribe of any other people in the area, and he gave them the name of a local tribe.

1800s
Narcissa and Marcus Whitman passed through the site of the present-day city of Spokane. About 1879, James Glover began to build the present-day city of Spokane. In 1889, a fire hit Spokane.

1900s
About 1900, the Industrial Workers of the World began free-speech fights in Spokane. After World War I, the city grew. In the 1920s, Prohibition had a huge impact on the city. In the 1930s, the Great Depression hit Spokane, and Clint Eastwood briefly lived when he was very young in the city. Spokane was the site of heavy war production during World War II and the Korean War. In the 1960s, Spokane and Gonzaga University were the site of protests against the Vietnam War. The Parkade was constructed in 1969. In the 1970s, easy access to parking spurned Rainier Bank and Great Western Bank to open offices in the city.