In my last River Bits column, I wrote about James Maurice Thompson and his affiliation with the Crawfordsville Club at Baum's Bridge.
After the railroads were built through Northwest Indiana in the mid 19th century, anyone could experience the “Everglades of the North” of the Kankakee Marsh.
The Childers family was one of the earliest to settle the Kankakee Marsh in Lake County. Thomas Childers was born in 1810 in Miami County, Ohio.
Anyone who does research on Porter County will come across the name of Broncho John Sullivan.
The Kankakee Marsh attracted a wide range of men. After the hunters and trappers came the farmers. While most of these early pioneers were honorable and upright, some were of the unsavory type. Some were escaping their past and others from the eye of the law. Most were able to blend into the…
Three years ago, while browsing the Internet, I ran across some Kankakee River pictures I had never seen before. The webpage owner told me they were in a box of glass negatives he bought at a flea market and were for sale! I purchased the negatives. A small notebook was included in the shipm…
In a 1936 report, Valparaiso University professor Alfred H. Meyer described Baum’s Bridge as “the most historic spot along the Kankakee in the marsh proper.” Through my studies I have researched many landowners, particularly those that owned the parcel where the Collier Lodge would be built.…
2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Valparaiso Public Library being at its current location. Previously the library had been housed for 11 years in an old brick mansion located on Washington Street in Valparaiso.
Two-hundred years of history. Two-hundred years of growth. Two-hundred years of progress. Throughout 2016, Indiana will celebrate and highlight its best in celebration of 200 years of statehood.
The Second Amendment (right to bear arms) is followed only by the First Amendment (right of speech, assembly and worship). Does this placement mean the authors of the Bill of Rights regarded gun ownership second only to speech, assembly and worship? We’ll never know for sure, but in recent t…
This is a collection of columns by Bill Nangle, former executive editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana. Nangle died Jan. 8, 2016.
The story of the Kankakee River has many authors: first the Native American, then the fur trapper and pioneer. The railroads brought the rich and famous to the Kankakee, where they erected clubhouses — the heyday of the sportsman era. Other important contributors were the local men who worke…
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in "Times Capsule: The Times' History of the Calumet Region During the 20th Century," published in 1999.
Read through the obituaries published today in The Times.
The Leadership Institute at Purdue Northwest has opened applications for the 2022-23 Leadership Northwest Indiana (LNI) program.
A new exhibit at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in downtown Chicago tells what happens when soldiers are captured during war, shining a light on how much prisoner of war experiences can vary.
Great Lakes steel production fell by 1,000 tons last week, and national steel production ran further behind last year's pace, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Federal prosecutors say a former pastor in Tennessee and Indiana faces up to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to child sex abuse charges. The U.S. attorney's office in Memphis says 33-year-old Joshua Henley pleaded guilty Monday to producing, possessing and sending sex abuse material involving children and transporting a minor interstate to have sex. Henley was the pastor at Holladay Church of Christ in Benton County, Tennessee, and coached the Holladay Elementary School girls’ basketball team, prosecutors said. Henley later went to work at a church in Evansville, Indiana, in April 2021. Sentencing is set in August.
A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for threatening members of Congress and to commit violence at the 2021 presidential inauguration. U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman sentenced Louis Capriotti, 47, of Chicago Heights to 37 months in prison Tuesday. Capriotti pleaded guilty last fall to transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. He has been in federal custody since his Jan. 12, 2021, arrest. Capriotti in November and December 2020 left threatening messages on the voicemail systems of members of Congress during which he falsely stated that he was an active U.S. Marine and referred to certain members of Congress as “terrorists.”
Chicago police say a 7-year-old boy was hospitalized in good condition after being grazed by a bullet when a gun accidentally discharged in a backpack at a school. Police say the bullet struck the ground and ricocheted by the second-grader, grazing his abdomen. The incident happened at Disney Magnet Elementary School on Chicago’s North Side shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday. Principal Paul Riskus sent a letter to parents saying “staff immediately intervened, secured the gun, and contacted the Chicago Police Department” and the Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Safety and Security.
Billy Butler, of Mishawaka, is accused of allegedly engaging in "jackpot switching" as a way to avoid having his casino winnings seized to cover unpaid child support obligations, records show.
Milton L. Harvey Jr., 42, Gary, was found guilty being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Billy Butler, of Mishawaka, is accused of allegedly engaging in "jackpot switching" as a way to avoid having his casino winnings seized to cover unpaid child support obligations, records show.
The woman and two passengers - an 82-year-old woman and 65-year-old man, both of Lake Village - were taken to St. Anthony Hospital in Crown Point, Cothran said
Davante M. Piccolin, 28, was ordered to nine months in jail and nine months on probation, Lake Criminal Court records showed.
Billy Butler, of Mishawaka, is accused of allegedly engaging in "jackpot switching" as a way to avoid having his casino winnings seized to cover unpaid child support obligations, records show.
"Burglary is an ongoing crime that encompasses a defendant’s conduct inside the premises, terminating only when the unlawful invasion ends," wrote Justice Christopher Goff for the Supreme Court.
Hundreds of newly released court exhibits pull back the curtain on how the Rams left St. Louis.
Auto racing fans visiting the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this month will find a little bit of Hammond right by the Pagoda.