The Handbuilt City

As Lake County begins to reap profits from a new property tax increase, officials in the cash-strapped government are already

Of Jaspers & Newtons

Jasper, Newton, Iowa, and adjacent counties of Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Any relationship to Jasper Newton Jack Daniels, of Tennessee

NWITimes’ Keith Benman recently wrote two articles highlighting the failure of the US Steel Steel Yard, Gary’s minor league baseball

Gary’s Miller Beach Arts and Creative District hosted a street fair in June centered around several graffiti art mural completed

St. Louis preservationist and director of the Preservation Research Office consulting firm Michael Allen visited Gary yesterday to see the

Few weeks go by without discussion of the fabled “third airport” of the Chicago metropolitan area. The collective pet project

The media may thankfully be catching up with the dark economic underbelly of the mythos of urban prosperity, perhaps evidenced through

I promise, promise, promise I’m going to be better about posting. I’m recovering from our trip to the Lake County

I’m used to seeing demolitions in the inner city, whether of historic housing or, occasionally, of newer homes that were

The NWI Times reports that a historic church in La Porte, Indiana is going to be demolished sometime this month.