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East Chicago is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States.The population was 26,370 at the 2020 census.Centered around heavy industry, the city is home to the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, an artificial freshwater harbor characterized by industrial and manufacturing activity.
Indiana and Chicago Railway: C&EI: 1880 1881 Chicago and Great Southern Railway: Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway: B&O: 1894 1902 Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway: Indiana Eastern Railroad and Transportation Company: 1979 1984 Indiana Midland Railway: Indiana Harbor Railroad: NYC: 1901 1906 Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad
A large project to expand and upgrade facilities began in 1962 and was completed in 1966. The following year, a new research lab was opened in East Chicago and Philip D. Block, Jr. took over the leadership of Inland from cousin Joseph L. Block. [22] Employment at the Indiana Harbor mill rose toward its peak of 25,000 in 1969. [2]
The Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad was a railroad company that served various communities along the eastern border of the U.S. state of Illinois in the 1870s. The original plan called for a line to connect Chicago with Lawrence County, Illinois (across the river from Vincennes, Indiana) via Danville and Paris; it ran from Chicago to Danville before it was consolidated into the ...
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (reporting mark CEI) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago to southern Illinois, St. Louis, and Evansville. Founded in 1877, it grew aggressively and stayed relatively strong throughout the Great Depression and two World Wars before finally being purchased by the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP or ...
Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, [2] built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company. [3] The Marktown Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Seventy years after the racist murder of Chicago teen Emmett Till in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, a new exhibit on Emmett Till at the Chicago History ...
November 30, 1910, of the Southern Indiana Railway Company, extending from a point on the Indiana-Illinois State line, near Quaker, Ill., to Westport, Ind., and branches, 233 miles less loss by abandonments, 5 miles 228 December 22, 1910, of the Chicago Southern Railway Company, extending from Chicago Heights to Quaker, Ill. 114