Eagan is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, and is a thriving suburb of the Twin Cities metropolitan area located approximately 15 miles southeast of downtown Minneapolis. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 63,557. Eagan is home to the Northwest Airlines headquarters as well as Thomson Legal & Regulatory, a legal information and publishing giant. After years of citizen pressure, Eagan will soon become home to one of many Best Buy stores located throughout the state of Minnesota. An interesting fact about Eagan is that it's one of the very few Twin Cities suburbs without an established car dealership business. Eagan was also famously visited by the "20th hijacker" of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Moussaoui attempted to complete flight training school at the Northwest Airlines headquarters, but was ultimately refused service. The local institution for secondary education, Eagan High School, has been twice named a "Nationally Recognized School of Excellence".