Twin City
Twin City

Author: Archibald McKinlay

Publisher:

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780898655834

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Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor

Author: Joseph S Pete

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2024-04-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781467152921

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Explore the city of yesteryear East Chicago, Indiana, was a melting pot. The Indiana Harbor neighborhood drew comparisons to Ellis Island as immigrants flocked from all over the world to work at its steel mills. Once home to more than a hundred nationalities, the "Workshop of America" made metal and many other products. Despite issues like pollution and political corruption, it earned the nickname "City of Champions," winning state titles, sustaining a historic high school rivalry, and producing greats like Gregg Popovich and Junior Bridgeman.  Award-winning Region journalist and Lost Hammond author Joseph S. Pete explores bygone landmarks like Washington and Roosevelt High Schools, Inland Steel Christmas parties, the zoo, Taco Joe's, the Mademoiselle Shoppe, movies palaces, the gym where Michael Jordan played his first Bulls game, and more.

East Chicago
East Chicago

Author: Jane and Evan Ammeson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467115002

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Once a landscape of dunes, marshes, and woodlands hugging the southern edge of Lake Michigan, the city of East Chicago was a developer's dream for the emerging steel industry. The industrial jobs provided a way out of poverty, but the area also offered parks, schools, neighborhoods, and civil organizations. Ammeson, born and raised in East Chicago, shows that the city had a sense of vitality and the essence that the American dream was available for all. -- adapted from back cover