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  • Njie - Oil Boom Collage

The Long Tail of Indiana’s Oil and Gas Boom

The state’s early industry remade more than the landscape.

Ava Tomasula y Garcia2021-09-21T13:43:49-04:00May 28, 2021|
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  • Gary Indiana

Return to Boomtowns

"This is your Gary, where hands grab at homecoming:/brown soldiers, sizzling streets, airwaves thick from a Motor City."

Curtis Crisler2021-01-27T14:54:29-05:00January 17, 2020|
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  • Steelworkers Park in Chicago, photo by Lizzie Smith

Possible Landscapes

The future of the Calumet/south Chicago region will have to contend with its infrastructure and layered history.

Ava Tomasula y Garcia2020-01-14T12:48:11-05:00January 6, 2020|
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  • Shapiro's Deli - Indianapolis

Rediscovering the Neighborhood of Saturdays

The legacy of a multiracial community on Indianapolis’s south side.

Susan B. Hyatt2020-04-30T14:12:51-04:00December 11, 2019|
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  • Love - Lake County Fair

At the Lake County Fair

The fair connects communities that often seem worlds apart socially and politically, but are intimately linked by economics and geography.

Samuel Love2019-11-14T11:00:49-05:00October 31, 2019|
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  • Flint Strike 1

White Shirt Day and “The Birth of a Union”

The legacy of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike—for Flint and beyond.

Edward McClelland2019-12-06T13:31:10-05:00February 25, 2019|
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