Importance of Racine, WI

The county seat and home to the county jail and courts where Alice Goodwin is held and tried, Racine is an old manufacturing town and port city that in the 1800s is upstaged by Chicago and Milwaukee. At the bend on Highway 20 is a five-block stretch of government buildings, utilities, churches, and lawyers' offices. The courthouse is a "monolithic gray slab with an inscription from Goethe, "In the government of men a great deal may be done by severity. More by love. But most of all by clear discernment and impartial justice