Hammond, Indiana

Everything Hammond is known for

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Music in Hammond

Songs About Hammond

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michael jackson
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Artists From Hammond

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Kiely Connell
americana Pop: 18

Rivers & Roads in Song near Hammond

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Hammond.

Interstate 65 13 songs U.S. Route 66 11 songs

History of Hammond

Wolf Lake Culvert RoadyGoat

1924

On May 21, 1924, two wealthy University of Chicago students named Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb picked up a fourteen-year-old boy named Bobby Franks as he walked home from school. They drove him across the state line to a culvert in the marshland south of Wolf Lake, on the Indiana side of the border, where they killed him and hid the body. They had committed the murder for no reason other than to see if they could get away with it. They were identified within days after Leopold dropped a pair of distinctive eyeglasses at the scene. Clarence Darrow argued against their execution in one of the most famous courtroom speeches in American history, and both men were given life sentences. The marsh around Wolf Lake is still there, a thin strip of water and reeds between the refineries and the freight lines, looking much the way it did a hundred years ago.

RoadyGoat → · 5.5 mi away

Gary, IN: Named for a Lawyer, Not a Metal RoadyGoat

1906

Gary, Indiana is one of the great steel cities, a place built on iron, fire, and molten metal pouring out of enormous mills. So you might assume the name comes from some material, some alloy or metal term. It doesn't. Gary is named for a man: Elbert H. Gary. And he wasn't a steelworker or a metallurgist. He was a lawyer, and the founding chairman of U.S. Steel, the corporation that built the city from scratch in nineteen-oh-six to house its workers. So the most steel-soaked city in America carries the name of a man in a suit who ran the company from a boardroom. A person, not a product. A lawyer, not a metal.

8.0 mi away

The Murder Castle Site RoadyGoat

1893

At the corner of 63rd and Wallace, on Chicago's South Side, there is now a post office. In 1893, during the World's Columbian Exposition, the three-story building on this lot belonged to a man calling himself H. H. Holmes. He had designed the upper floors himself, with windowless rooms, soundproofed walls, staircases that led nowhere, and gas jets he could control from his office. An unknown number of visitors to the Fair, most of them young women, checked into his hotel and were never seen again. Holmes was eventually arrested for insurance fraud; the building caught fire in 1895 before its full architecture could be documented, and was demolished decades later. The post office that replaced it is unremarkable. The sidewalk is the same one.

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Jackson 5 Family Home

1950

The small Gary, Indiana house at 2300 Jackson Street where Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 grew up and rehearsed.

8.0 mi away

Pullman Historic District

1880

America's most famous company town, built by George Pullman for his sleeping car workers, and site of the 1894 Pullman Strike.

9.5 mi away

Chicago Pile-1 - Site of First Nuclear Reaction

1942

On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in a squash court under the football stands at the University of Chicago.

15.4 mi away

Chess Records

1950

The legendary recording studio where Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James created the Chicago blues sound that became rock and roll.

18.9 mi away

Muddy Waters House

1954

The South Side home of Muddy Waters from 1954 until his death in 1983, designated a Chicago landmark in 2013.

19.6 mi away

Barack Obama Kenwood Residence

2005

The Georgian Revival home in the Kenwood neighborhood where Barack and Michelle Obama lived from 2005 until moving to the White House in 2009.

15.8 mi away

Things to Do in Hammond

historical 21.5 mi away
Route 66 Starting Point

The beginning (or end) of the Mother Road. A sign on Adams Street in Chicago.
food 22.3 mi away
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria

Chicago deep dish royalty since 1971. The buttercrust is the secret. Lou learned from the original Pizzeria Uno founders.
historical 21.6 mi away
Willis (Sears) Tower Skydeck

Stand on a glass box 1353 feet above Chicago. Your stomach will drop.
quirky 21.6 mi away
Cloud Gate (The Bean)

A liquid mercury-shaped sculpture that reflects the Chicago skyline. Everyone takes a photo.

Everything Near Hammond

66 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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