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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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Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
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) ...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...
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Chicagoland, Jack W. Fuller(
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) ...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....
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Purdue University Calumet, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...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...
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Albanians, Nicholas C. Pano(
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) ...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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Monee, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...Dunes National Lakeshore...
...Bailly. Marie and Joseph Bailly operated a fur trading post now within the grounds of the Indiana...
...in Chesterton , Indiana. Because of language difficulties, Marie was often referred to as “Mo-Nee”...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...of former rail yards and air rights east of Indiana Avenue between Roosevelt Road and 18th Street....
...spread to buildings on Wabash, Michigan, and Indiana Avenues, making them residential streets again...
...wealthy families built new mansions on Prairie, Indiana, Calumet, and Michigan Avenues south of 16th...
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House of the Good Shepherd / Chicago Industrial School for Girls, Suellen Hoy(
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) ...during the 1880s, this school at 49th and Indiana received regular support from the county. In 1911...
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Wheaton, IL, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...Gary (founder of U.S. Steel and the city of Gary , Indiana), Senator C. Wayland Brooks, John Quincy...
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Abolitionism, Linda J. Evans(
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) ...was the primary abolitionist press for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Abolitionism enjoyed...
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Air Quality, David Stradling(
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) ...the Calumet Region , and northern Lake County, Indiana , were the most polluted districts in the...
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