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North Township

East Chicago

East Chicago is a city in , , and a suburb of . East Chicago had its start in 1893, and, with the arrival of Inland Steel in 1903, it soon became the most industrialized city in America, with some 80% of the area relegated to heavy industry.
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  • Type: Town with 26,400 residents
  • Description: city in Lake County, Indiana, United States
  • Also known as: “East Chicago, IN” and “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Postal code: 46312

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ameristar Casino East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Public Library.

Casino
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Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago is a riverboat casino in East Chicago, Indiana, docked at Indiana Harbor on . It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment.

Building
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, also known as Grand Boulevard Carnegie Library, is a historic Carnegie library located at 3605 Grand Boulevard in East Chicago, Indiana.

School
East Chicago or commonly known as Central or EC Central, is a public high school in the industrial City of East Chicago, , located in the eastern portion of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marktown and Washington Park.

Neighborhood
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is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, United States, built during the Progressive Era in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company.

Neighborhood
or Park Addition is a neighborhood in the section of East Chicago, Indiana, near the city park with which it shares its name. It is bounded on the north by U.S. Route 12, and on the south by 144th Street.

Neighborhood
is the portion of East Chicago, Indiana located east of the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal and south of Chicago Avenue. The neighborhood is bisected by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad.

East Chicago

Latitude
41.6398° or 41° 38′ 23″ north
Longitude
-87.4548° or 87° 27′ 17″ west
Population
26,400
Elevation
591 feet (180 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ECH
Open location code
86HJJGQW+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153627188
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4919857
Wiki­data ID
Q599694
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“East Chicago” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيست شيكاغو”
  • Basque: “East Chicago”
  • Bengali: “পূর্ব শিকাগো”
  • Catalan: “East Chicago”
  • Cebuano: “East Chicago”
  • Chechen: “Ист-Чикаго”
  • Chinese: “East Chicago”
  • Chinese: “东芝加哥”
  • Chinese: “東芝加哥”
  • Dagbani: “East Chicago”
  • Danish: “East Chicago”
  • Dutch: “East Chicago”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايسانت شيكاجو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايست شيكاجو”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Ĉikago”
  • French: “East Chicago”
  • German: “East Chicago”
  • Gilaki: “ایست شیکاگو (اينديانا)”
  • Gilaki: “ایست شیکاگو”
  • Haitian: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Haitian: “East Chicago”
  • Hebrew: “מזרח שיקגו”
  • Hindi: “पूर्वी शिकागो, इंडियाना”
  • Hindi: “पूर्वी शिकागो”
  • Ido: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Ido: “East Chicago”
  • Irish: “East Chicago”
  • Italian: “East Chicago”
  • Japanese: “イースト・シカゴ”
  • Japanese: “イーストシカゴ”
  • Korean: “이스트시카고”
  • Ladin: “East Chicago”
  • Malagasy: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Malagasy: “East Chicago”
  • Mazanderani: “ایست شیکاگو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “East Chicago”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “East Chicago”
  • Norwegian: “East Chicago”
  • Novial: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Persian: “شیکاگوی شرقی، ایندیانا”
  • Persian: “شیکاگوی شرقی”
  • Polish: “East Chicago”
  • Portuguese: “East Chicago”
  • Russian: “Ист-Чикаго”
  • Serbian: “Ист Чикаго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “East Chicago”
  • Silesian: “East Chicago”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوغو شیکاقو ، ایندیانا”
  • Spanish: “East Chicago (Indiana)”
  • Spanish: “East Chicago”
  • Swedish: “East Chicago”
  • Tatar: “Ист-Чикаго”
  • Turkish: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Turkish: “East Chicago”
  • Ukrainian: “Іст-Чикаго”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی شکاگو، انڈیانا”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی شکاگو”
  • Uzbek: “East Chicago”
  • Volapük: “East Chicago”
  • Waray (Philippines): “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “East Chicago”
  • Welsh: “East Chicago, Indiana”
  • Welsh: “East Chicago”

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