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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
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 ...
The Eastern is the successor of the Calumet & Blue Island Railway Company, which was incorporated in Illinois on September 20, 1889. By agreement dated February 17, 1897, entered into by and between the Calumet & Blue Island and the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company, incorporated in Indiana on April 9, 1895, the franchise rights and other property of the latter were transferred to ...
Channel 50 immediately demonstrated its interest in serving the Northwest Indiana area—which received stations from Chicago—with a newscast and Friday night sports programming, [10] as well as coverage of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament and Indiana University athletics, [8] a news program focusing on events from area ...
The railroad of the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railway Company, herein called the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern, is a single-track, standard-gauge railroad, located entirely within the State of Indiana, and extending from Converse to Muncie, 42.99 miles. In addition, the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern owns 9.425 miles of yard and side tracks.
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 ...
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 ...