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Kentucky's second largest city sits in the middle of the state's Bluegrass region and is surrounded by noteworthy horse farms and holds both the Red Mile and the Kenneland race tracks. It is the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University and the site of numerous sophisticated cultural and artistic events, It is the ranked as the 10th best educated US city with a college graduation level of 39.5 percent which contests the Kentucky Hillbilly image. It is a city of parks, trees and natural beauty coupled with a healthy economy and business community that Forbes Magazine ranks as the 5th best city for Business and Careers. Fortune 500 companies in Lexington include: * Affiliated Computer Services * Hewlett Packard * Lexmark Toyota has a suburban manufacturing plant which is the second largest employer behind the University of Kentucky and Smuckers runs the world's second largest Peanut Butter plant there.

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