RACINE, a town of the United States of North America, capital of a county of the same name in the state of Wisconsin, on level ground, about 40 feet above Lake Michigan, on the west shore of which it stands, 23 miles S.E. of Milwaukee, and 62 N. of Chicago. It is regularly built, with broad straight streets, and contains many good public buildings. In a grove of trees, somewhat to the south of the town, stands the Episcopal college, a fine Gothic structure of pale brick. Besides several Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, Racine contains a high school, conspicuous in the centre of the town, and three other public schools. The harbour is one of the best on the lake, and admits vessels drawing 12 feet. The chief manufactures of the town are ship-yards, furnaces, machine-shops, and flour-mills. The total value of the principal articles manufactured in 1835 was L.230,133. The trade is great and rapidly increasing, especially in timber from the west; the exports and imports in 1851 amounted together to L.522,438. Pop. (1850) 5111; (1853) about 7300; (1857) about 11,000.