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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Wikipedia
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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.

Museum
Photo: JGlover, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is an online museum for sports mascots. Prior to this, it operated a physical location between 2018 and 2024 as an interactive children's museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Robertsdale and Northside.

Neighborhood
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
Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Neighborhood
, also called West Harbor, is a small triangular neighborhood in the section of , west of Kennedy Avenue, east of the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, and north of United States Route 12. is situated 3 miles southeast 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”
  • Kashmiri: “وایٹِنٛگ، اِنٛڈیانا”
  • Kashmiri: “وایٹِنٛگ”
  • 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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