Lake Station, Indiana

• Cops: man on heroin crashes stroller carrying infant son
  

  A Lake Station, Ind. man was arrested after he was seen crashing a stroller carrying his infant son into the side of a building in the Loop after allegedly shooting up with heroin Wednesday afternoon, police said.

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  I know people often use this column to complain, but not me and not today. We buried my father Monday and, while traveling through the town of DeMotte, I was truly amazed that 95 percent of the cars, tractor-trailers, and even a Fed Ex truck pulled to the side to show respect to my wonderful father and family.

• Men charged with June shooting
  

  Two men have been charged with attempted murder in a June 28 shooting that left one man wounded in the leg.

• Vets go online rocking at Asgard
  

  In Norse mythology, the dwelling place for mighty deities is Asgard. That brawny realm was not forgotten when Portage's Jim "Slider" Harwood founded www.AsgardRadio.com -- a free online rock 'n' roll station with the slogan: "Where the gods go to rock." Jim Harwood, Desert Storm veteran with Noel Tengdin, disc jockey, discuss business earlier this ...

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  We would like to thank Officer Aponte of the Hobart Police Department for the professional and courteous way he treated us July 6 when our car was struck in a parking lot.

• 'This is a beautiful thing'
  

  More than 400 energetic out-of-town volunteers chose to spend part of their summer vacations working on flood-recovery projects last week with Lakeshore Area Regional Recovery of Indiana.

• Man sought on warrants caught after chase, crash
  

  A pursuit by Hobart police ended in Glen Park on Tuesday night when the fleeing driver flipped his girlfriend's car in a deep pothole, Hobart Lt.

• 3 injured in Toll Road crash
  

  Three people in a car were injured Friday night in a three-vehicle crash on the eastbound Indiana Toll Road in the Lake Station area.

• Quickly Neighbors
  

  If you're really tired of the way Gary is looking, let's get up as a people and do something about it.

• Sharing the good news
  

  H.W. "Jake" Jacobson holds an assortment of titles with Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lake Station.

• Police merit board falls to budget ax
  

  A second round of pre-emptive city budget cuts in two years would bypass any layoffs, but the Police Merit Board will have to go.

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  I love waiting through three or four stoplights at U.S. 20 and Indiana 149. I love waiting in line behind tractor-trailers that barely can move through the intersection when the light finally turns green.

City Description

Lake Station is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 13,948 at the 2000 census. An early depot stop on the Michigan Central Railroads Detroit to Chicago line through the Calumet region, the village was first named when George Earle mapped out a town of about 6,500 acres (26 km) in 1852, dubbing it Lake Station. Twists of fate have their effect to this day. Being a bedroom community, Lake Station did welcome Abraham Lincoln to its Audubon Hotel perhaps on more than one occasion according to oral history. But George Pullman, who tried to negotiate for land in Lake Station for his proposed railcar company, never struck a deal and set up shop on the south side of Chicago instead. Today, Lake Station remains a mostly residential community. East Gary is the former name of the city of Lake Station, Indiana. The city was known as Lake Station from as far back as 1852 when it served as a depot on Michigan Central Railroad's Detroit to Chicago line. The name was officially changed to East Gary in 1908 in an attempt to lure executives from the nearby US Steel plant in Gary, Indiana into creating a suburban community. With another name change in 1977, to primarily

City Contained By:

• Lake County
• Indiana
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 22.0148989379 km squared

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