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Independence is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a suburb of Cleveland in the Cleveland metropolitan area.

The community was originally called Center and was renamed Independence in 1830.

Independence had a population of 7,584 at the 2020 census, up from 7,133 in 2010, with 2,914 households counted in 2020.

Much of Independence's land area is taken up by the interchange of Interstates 77 and 480 — a four-level stack interchange locals call "the cloverleaf," whose larger version opened in 1940 after the original 1939 cloverleaf nearby.

In the 1970s, Independence's Rockside Road corridor was developed into offices and hotels serving downtown Cleveland, an area that came to be called "Cleveland's Silicon Valley."

The Crown Center building on Rockside Road, built in 1991, is the tallest building between downtown Cleveland and Akron.

Independence is home to the Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine.

The Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team has its training facility in Independence.

Independence High School is the city's public high school, part of the Independence Local School District with Independence Primary School and Independence Middle School.

Polish is the largest reported ancestry in Independence — 36.6% of residents claimed Polish ancestry at the 2010 census.