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East Chicago

American  

noun

  1. a port in NW Indiana, on Lake Michigan, near Chicago.


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But E&E notes that it’s likely the largest pipeline gas spill since a ruptured storage tank let out 2.3 million gallons of gasoline in East Chicago, Indiana, back in 1986.

From The Verge Jul. 25, 2022

Couisnard, a 6-foot-4 junior from East Chicago, Indiana, went for a career-best 33 points last Saturday in a win over LSU.

From Seattle Times Feb. 25, 2022

John Milo Ford was born the first child of two pharmacists in East Chicago, Indiana, in 1957.

From Slate Nov. 15, 2019

Then the scores of horrified witnesses, the agents, two Chicago detectives and five officers from East Chicago, Ind., hurried forward.

From Washington Times Aug. 1, 2019

The summer before the lake and river steamers had been crowded with them, and their wagons had come in long processions out of the East Chicago had begun its phenomenal growth.

From A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Adams, John Wolcott

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