A Chicago-based freelance photographer was one of three people Gary Police arrested and charged with criminal trespassing during a protest against ICE deportations at the Gary/Chicago International Airport Saturday afternoon.
Dangerously cold weather is expected Monday and Tuesday, bringing single-digit temperatures to Northwest Indiana and Northern Illinois accompanied by negative wind chills of -20 degrees or worse.
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Indiana University Northwest has received a $900,000 federal grant to ease the burden of students to meet their basic needs such as food, housing and transportation.
Three new structures are set to join the gargantuan Amazon complex along I-65 as Merrillville continues to build its warehouse empire.
Three Lake County school districts and two in Porter County gained enrollment through transfers last fall, according to the Indiana Department of Education’s 2024-25 transfer report. The report, established by a 2017 state law, reflects students who attend a public or private school, other than the local school corporation where they live. The report is distributed in the fall and spring semesters.
Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois, but the proposed action would face roadblocks on the Illinois side, which would prevent a border shift, political officials and experts said.
One person was injured during an incident at a Merrillville shopping center Friday evening.
When I last saw Earl Smith Jr. at the inaugural Gary Sports Hall of Fame ceremony, it looked like he could still strap on a pair of shoulder pads and line up at running back. He was 87.
Smith was lean and fit with a strong handshake. Smith’s presence always changed the room when he arrived. He was a cut above.
Smith was athletic royalty in a city that adored their sports heroes. A football, basketball and track star at Roosevelt, Smith left Gary for five years to attend college at the University of Iowa. He returned to Gary with his degree and never left. Smith died on Thursday. He was 90.
On a per capita basis, California’s gross domestic product is greater than the economies of the U.S., China, Germany, and Japan. Setting aside per capita comparisons and measuring productivity in hard dollars, California’s state economy ranks fifth in the world, just behind the national economies of those four countries. Home to 39 million people, California is also the most populous state in the U.S.