Historic Native Americans of the Calumet Region
Calumet Pipe
Early Chicago
Encyclopedia of Chicago
Industrial development became
possible in 1869, when Congress appropriated money for a harbor at South
Chicago. In the 1890s, the Calumet River was straightened and dredged. Industry
began moving into the area in the 1870s, and by the early twentieth century the
Pullman Company, the South Works of U.S. Steel, and other industries had been
established in southeast Chicago and Hammond. To
accommodate industry, the channel of the Grand Calumet was moved and
straightened. The Indiana Harbor Canal connecting the Grand Calumet with Lake
Michigan at East Chicago was completed in 1906, and industries moved to its banks. Burns
Ditch, completed in 1926, connected the Little Calumet with Lake Michigan in
Porter County, draining thousands of acres of marsh and facilitating
development. Parts of the Grand Calumet and Little Calumet drained into the
lake at these new outlets, depending on rainfall and lake levels. This harbor
complex became the most important on the Great Lakes. With steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, packinghouses, and other industries, the Calumet
system became the industrial center of the Chicago region. Since the model town
of Pullman was
built near its western shore in the early 1880s, Lake Calumet has been
drastically altered. Vast areas of it have been filled in with refuse and
converted to use as parkland and docks, while extensive dredging has deepened
other parts to accommodate shipping.
Abe Kleinman
September 1876
The Pigeon Shooter Takes a Shoot at Higher Game.
Drunken Revelry at Shang Noyes’—Sudden End of the Jollity.
Charley Creighton, of South Chicago, Receives a Serious
Wound.
The Sportsman Locked-Up in the Hyde Park Calaboose.
Irondale Wants New Name
July 1903
Muskrat Hunting in Chicago River; Animals Furnish Fur
January 1908
For Lake Calumet Harbor
October 1908
Big City Harbor on Lake Calumet Finally Assured
December 1922
Louis Armstrong - Muskrat Ramble
YouTube: Louis Armstrong -
Muskrat Ramble. 29 feb, 1926. Armstrong (tp), Kid Ory (tb), Johnny Dodds (cl),
Lil Armstrong (p), Johnny St. Cyr (bj).
Chicago Police Tell Fight for Lives in Rioting
June 1937
Mill Workers’ Social Center Made Possible by Clubwomen
March 1938
Chicago Area’s No. 1 Industry is Steel Making
January 1940
New Bus Route to Calumet War Plants Is Ready
December 1942
Rails Move for Truce in Calumet Row
September 1949
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1949/09/27/page/43/article/12-rails-move-for-truce-in-calumet-row
Mark 75 Years of Steel Making in Chicagoland
June 1950
Vet Protests South Deering Rezoning Plea
November 1950
Parade Roseland 1960s - Muskrat Pete 1940s, Speedboat ride down Calumet River 1950's
YouTube
Face Lifting Belies Age of South Deering
April 1954
Lake Calumet Harbor: Chicago’s Gateway to the World
October 1958
Lake Calumet Rich in History Legend
July 1959
The 8 Nurses: 5 Hour Killing
July 1966
Mission is Port of Call for Lonely Seafarers
September 1966
Seek New Dumping Sites
October 1967
Incinerator Stoker
February 1972
Lake Calumet Complex Stalled, Waiting Landfill
October 1975
Free Trade Zone to Open Near Lake Calumet Port
November 1975
Vandals Hit Pantry at South Side Church
January 1988
Lake Calumet Dumping Ground Declared a Superfund Site
March 2010
Ask Geoffrey: What’s the Plan for Lake Calumet?
October 2016
