The first acknowledgement of the Indiana Harbor barrio came in newsprint; The Lake County Times (now The Hammond Times) on July 10, 1923, labeled this area “little Mexico.” This nickname would be used continuously to describe Indiana Harbor throughout the decades. As this lakefront area grew, so did the approximately half-mile square known as Block […]| Indiana Historical Society
At eleven o’clock on a Wednesday morning in 1930 government dignitaries and civic leaders gathered to lay the cornerstone for a structure that represented, according to an editorial writer for the Michigan City News, “a new industrial era” for the city—a $9 million generating plant for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company. The writer envisioned […]| Indiana Historical Society