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Calumet District

area, Indiana, United States
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Calumet District, heavily industrialized area, mostly in Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, adjacent to southeastern Chicago. Following the establishment of steel plants in Gary at the start of the 20th century, the area developed from a swampy sand-dune waste into a major sector of the Chicago industrial web, comprising one of the world’s foremost industrial complexes, with mammoth steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, and other industries. Occupying nearly 90 square miles (230 square km), it encompasses a population of about 300,000 in the contiguous cities of Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, ...(100 of 165 words)

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