NW Indiana
Lake County
North Township

Whiting

Whiting is a city located in the Chicago Metropolitan Area in , which was founded in 1889. The city is located on the southern shore of .
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  • Type: Town with 4,560 residents
  • Description: city in Lake County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “Whiting, IN”, “Whiting, Indiana”, “Whiting’s”, “Whiting’s Crossing”, and “Whiting’s Station”
  • Postal code: 46394

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hoosier Theater Building and Whiting High School.

Movie theater
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
is a historic theatre and attached commercial / residential building located at Whiting, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a three-story, rectangular, brown brick building.

School
is a public high school located in Whiting, . It was founded in 1898. All of Whiting is in the Whiting School City, and this is the sole comprehensive high school of that school district.

College
Calumet College of St. Joseph is a private Catholic college in , United States. It was founded in 1951 as an extension of Saint Joseph's College and is associated with the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Robertsdale and Marktown.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in northernmost , north of 129th Street and south of . It is bounded to the south by Pulaski Park, to the west by the neighborhood of , to the north by , and to the east by the cities of Whiting and .

Neighborhood
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is an urban planned worker community in , United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company. is situated 2 miles southeast of Whiting.

Neighborhood
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or North Side is a neighborhood in western . Together with and , it makes up "East Chicago proper," as distinct from . is situated 3 miles south of Whiting.

Whiting

Latitude
41.67976° or 41° 40′ 47″ north
Longitude
-87.49447° or 87° 29′ 40″ west
Population
4,560
Elevation
587 feet (179 metres)
Named after
https://www.lynwoodil.us/
United Nations Location Code
US WHG
Open location code
86HJMGH4+W6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153424158
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4928208
Wiki­data ID
Q2000875
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Whiting” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وايتنغ”
  • Armenian: “Ուիթինգ”
  • Basque: “Whiting”
  • Catalan: “Whiting”
  • Cebuano: “Whiting”
  • Chechen: “Вайтинг”
  • Chinese: “Whiting”
  • Chinese: “惠廷”
  • Chinese: “懷廷”
  • Czech: “Whiting”
  • Danish: “Whiting”
  • Dutch: “Whiting”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وايتنج”
  • French: “Whiting”
  • German: “Whiting”
  • Gilaki: “وایتینگ (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “وایتینگ”
  • Haitian: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “Whiting”
  • Hebrew: “וייטינג”
  • Hindi: “वाइटिंग, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “वाइटिंग”
  • Ido: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Ido: “Whiting”
  • Irish: “Whiting”
  • Italian: “Whiting”
  • Ladin: “Whiting”
  • Malagasy: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Malagasy: “Whiting”
  • Mazanderani: “وایتینگ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Whiting”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whiting”
  • Norwegian: “Whiting”
  • Persian: “وایتینگ، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “وایتینگ”
  • Polish: “Whiting”
  • Portuguese: “Whiting”
  • Serbian: “Whiting”
  • Serbian: “Вајтинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whiting”
  • Silesian: “Whiting”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وایتینق، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “Whiting”
  • Swedish: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Swedish: “Whiting”
  • Tatar: “Вайтинг”
  • Ukrainian: “Вайтінг”
  • Urdu: “وائٹنگ، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “وائٹنگ”
  • Urdu: “وہائٹنگ، انڈیانا”
  • Uzbek: “Whiting”
  • Volapük: “Whiting”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Whiting”
  • Welsh: “Whiting, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “Whiting”

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