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Plant Communities, Gerould Wilhelm(
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) ...marsh, fen, bog, swamp, forest, savanna, dune , and prairie—and a ruderal community. Aquatic Aquatic...
...kames, eskers, moraines, river bluffs, or even dunes, or in flats associated with these formations....
...acid bog, often in sand flats or basins in the dune region, are floating sedge mats that rise and...
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Refining, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...in 1890. Now owned by BP Amoco (Standard of Indiana, long a huge multinational corporation, changed...
...Company opened its new refinery in Whiting , Indiana, in 1890, the facility ranked as the largest...
...of the 1880s, when the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was created as a new subsidiary of the giant...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 2, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...Steel Corp. Source: Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary The construction...
...Reform ; Housing Types Panoramic View of U.S. Steel Plant, Gary, Indiana, 1936 Photographer: U. S....
...Steel Corp. Source: Calumet Regional Archives, Indiana University Northwest, Gary The expansive mill...
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Chesterton, IN, Margaret D. Doyle(
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) ...Illinois, and other interested groups, the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was established in 1966....
...This park, together with the Indiana Dunes State Park, which opened to the...
...public in 1926, preserves the remaining dunes of the south shore of Lake Michigan for recreational...
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Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...as Chicago commuters took advantage of Indiana's lower taxes while remaining in close proximity to...
...Trail, the major east-west thoroughfare between Indiana and Illinois. The first American settlers...
...emigrated from Germany and arrived at St. John , Indiana, near the Reeder farm. His brother Mathias...
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Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane(
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) ...Merrillville continued to serve as northwest Indiana's commercial hub. Its population stabilized and...
...of the Loop. Known as “Downtown Northwest Indiana,” the town of Merrillville, just south of Gary ,...
...the Sauk Trail, a major east-west route through Indiana and into Illinois. In addition, the site...
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Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm(
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) ...savanna, with distinctive vegetation on sand dunes adjacent to Lake Michigan. Soils, topography ,...
...prairie, but paralleling Lake Michigan were sand dunes with black oak scrub having an understory of...
...pine (Pinus banksiana) also occurred on the dunes, and a few white pine (Pinus strobus) occurred in...
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Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...and northwestern Indiana, where lonely sand dunes and swamps were transformed into vast industrial...
...of Lake Michigan in what would become Gary , Indiana. By the 1920s, the Gary Works had 12 blast...
...mills in the Calumet district and northern Indiana. Inland Steel, which was established in Chicago...
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K-Town, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...it to some western streets in 1913. K-Town thus marks the eleventh mile from the Indiana state line....
...prepared a plan in which each mile west of the Indiana-Illinois border was assigned a successive...
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Environmentalism, David Stradling(
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) ...activists also played a crucial role in the preservation of the Indiana Dunes . As early as 1914...
...the Chicago Conservation Council worked to preserve the spectacular dunes. Since that time...
...have worked to create and expand the Indiana Dunes State Park (1923) and the Indiana Dunes National...
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Portage, IN, James B. Lane(
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) ...Dunes National Lakeshore, Burns Harbor , and steel mills that still employ more residents than any...
...not only to its potential for self-sufficiency but to its nearness to Lake Michigan , the Indiana...
...31 miles SE of the Loop. Before the State of Indiana created Portage Township in March 1836, the...
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Town of Pines, IN, Steven Essig(
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) ...Dunes on Lake Michigan's south shore....
...as of the year 2000, the overwhelming majority of them white. It is located near the Indiana...
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Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...substantial freight traffic through northwestern Indiana, survived until public subsidy for commuter...
...neighborhood of Kensington , and South Bend, Indiana, its success was assured in the 1920s when it...
...1990 the line has been operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District. i3719 The...
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Miamis, Bradley J. Birzer(
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) ...with the British. The Miamis remained in Indiana until the United States government forcibly removed...
...to Kansas in 1846 and 1847. Today, the Miamis live in northeastern Oklahoma and northern Indiana....
...By the 1720s, the Miamis had resettled in Indiana. At the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, the Miami...
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Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...Dunes . More distant vacation destinations remained too expensive for middle-class Chicagoans....
...Rock, Chain O'Lakes Park, and the Indiana Dunes. The autocamps, which offered rustic shelters not...
...on the urban fringes, such as Lake Bluff and New Buffalo, Michigan, or a pilgrimage to the Indiana...
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Porter, IN, Erik Gellman(
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) ...Dunes State Park and National Lakeshore....
...worked at the Bethlehem Steel plant. Porter also features natural scenery as part of the Indiana...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...for the following 13 months. Lake County (Indiana), created in February 1836, was unorganized and...
...Ed. John H. Long. 1997. Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Indiana: Atlas of Historical County, Boundaries. Ed. John...
...changes to their boundaries. In Illinois and Indiana, as in the rest of the United States, one of...
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Inland Steel Co., Jonathan Keyes(
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) ...in sales. But in 1902, when it built a large new open-hearth steel mill at Indiana Harbor (in...
...East Chicago, Indiana, 27 miles southeast of downtown Chicago), Inland Steel suddenly became...
...a big business. By 1910, the Indiana Harbor facility had about 2,600 workers; by 1917, annual output...
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Folklore, Susan K. Eleuterio(
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) ...the steel mills of South Chicago and northwest Indiana, and Chicago's swampy location at the base of...
...the weeping lady of Mexico, found in northwest Indiana, and the Hull House Devil Baby, which tells...
...Center's study of ethnic traditions in 1977; Indiana University Folklore Institute's Gary Project in...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...fortunes. First, Inland Steel built a plant at Indiana Harbor, heralding the dawn of East Chicago as...
...oversaw neighborhood planning, and dredged the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal. By 1907, East Chicago...
...manufacturing, and chemical factories operated at Indiana Harbor and along its inner canal system....
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