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11 Schererville, IN, Stephen G. McShane( Authored Entry )
...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...
12 Merrillville, IN, Stephen G. McShane( Authored Entry )
...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...
13 Ecosystem Evolution, Eric C. Grimm( Authored Entry )
...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...
14 Iron and Steel, David Bensman and Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...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...
15 K-Town, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...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...
16 Environmentalism, David Stradling( Authored Entry )
...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...
17 Portage, IN, James B. Lane( Authored Entry )
...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...
18 Town of Pines, IN, Steven Essig( Authored Entry )
...Dunes on Lake Michigan's south shore....
...as of the year 2000, the overwhelming majority of them white. It is located near the Indiana...
19 Interurbans, Ronald Dale Karr( Authored Entry )
...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...
20 Miamis, Bradley J. Birzer( Authored Entry )
...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...
21 Vacation Spots, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...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...
22 Porter, IN, Erik Gellman( Authored Entry )
...Dunes State Park and National Lakeshore....
...worked at the Bethlehem Steel plant. Porter also features natural scenery as part of the Indiana...
23 Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum( Authored Entry )
...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...
24 Inland Steel Co., Jonathan Keyes( Authored Entry )
...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...
25 Folklore, Susan K. Eleuterio( Authored Entry )
...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...
26 East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...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....
27 Hegewisch, Erik Gellman( Authored Entry )
...of Ford automobiles since 1998) and nearby Indiana casinos constitute the employment base for the...
...Hyde Park Lake. Native Americans settled on sand dunes and traveled along this passage for trade...
...existed from the present location of Hammond , Indiana, to the western banks of Wolf Lake through...
28 Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller( Authored Entry )
...covering parts of five states (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa), all of which were...
...area of city and suburbs in three states stretching from northern Indiana to southern Wisconsin....
29 Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton( Authored Entry )
...University, which opened in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1874 on land granted to the state from the...
...late 1940s, this extension campus in Hammond, Indiana—the industry-heavy corridor 3 miles east of...
30 Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano( Authored Entry )
...Albanian ancestry in Illinois, northwest Indiana, and southern Wisconsin. Among the most prominent...
...Pennsylvania, others gravitated to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Prior to World...
...concentrations of Albanians in Gary and Whiting , Indiana, as well as in Chicago, Argo ( Summit ),...

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