Kenosha () is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the chair of Kenosha County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 99,986 which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Situated upon the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Kenosha is allowance of the greater Chicago metropolitan area (Chicagoland) as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. It next has longstanding associates to the Racine and Milwaukee areas to the north. Interstate 94 connects Kenosha to the Chicago and Milwaukee metro areas, and Kenosha itself is situated more or less halfway along with each city.

Kenosha was taking into account a middle of industrial activity; it was home to large automotive factories which fueled its economy. Like some further Rust Belt cities, Kenosha wandering these factories in the late 20th century, causing it to gradually transition into a services-based economy. In recent years, the city and surrounding county have benefited from increased job growth, and the city has worked on repairing roads and new infrastructure. It is home to the headquarters of the Fortune 1000 tool manufacturer Snap-on Inc., as competently as the clothing company Jockey International. Kenosha is home to multiple school institutions including the University of Wisconsin–Parkside, Carthage College, and Gateway Technical College. Residents of the city are called Kenoshans.

The Potawatomi originally named the area Kenozia (also transcribed ginoozhe, kinoje) “place of the pike”, while the Menominee referred to the place as Kenūsīw, meaning “Northern Pike”. The to the fore Ojibwa herald is reported as Masu-kinoja “trout (pike) come all at once”. These take in hand to the annual spawning of trout, in which thousands of fish entered the rivers from Lake Michigan, providing food for the coming months.

Sites of at the forefront human habitation have been discovered in the Kenosha vicinity. It remains indefinite if any sites pre-date the Clovis Culture but, if so, those sites would be contemporaneous when the Wisconsin glaciation. Paleo-Indians decided in the area at least 13,500 years ago.