city, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. It lies southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Settled in 1873 by Daniel Freeman, who named the city for his hometown in Canada, it was laid out by the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company in 1887 and became a poultry-raising centre. Inglewood developed with the Los Angeles metropolitan area and is the site of the Hollywood Park horse-racing track. La Casa de la Centinela Adobe (built in 1836) is a historical landmark. The city is the seat of the University of West Los Angeles (1966) and the City University of Los Angeles (1974), a distance-learning institution (now centred largely around Internet-based instruction) with offices in several U.S. states and overseas. Los Angeles International Airport is adjacent (southwest). Inc. city, 1908. Pop. (1990) 109,602; (2000) 112,580.