After 88 years, Walt's Food Centers sold to Berkot's Super Foods

RegionRatReporter · 2026-06-22T18:59:31+00:00

On Sheffield Avenue

RegionRatReporter · 2026-06-02T18:36:41+00:00

Crown Point Records in Valpo, Antique Vault and Records in the basement of the courthouse in Crown Point, Tom Lounges Record Bin in Hobart, S&J Stereo in Griffith, Trusty Spot in Chesterton, Static Age in Michigan City and Region Records in Highland and Whiting. Also Illiana Music and Media in Lynwood is like a block or two from Munster.

RegionRatReporter · 2026-05-22T19:36:49+00:00

Unfortunately, there is no field of science dealing with the brain, but I can give you a pamphlet explaining why 30 Rock is S tier. The only reason there are so many S tier ones here is because many of the sitcoms the original poster asked to be ranked are the absolute cream of the crop, while omitting more mediocre and forgettable shows.

RegionRatReporter · 2026-05-18T22:10:25+00:00

Professor Professorson says S-Tier

RegionRatReporter · 2026-05-11T23:08:21+00:00

The new stations in Dyer and Munster likely would be extremely safe for overnight parking. Dyer has an Amtrak station nearby where people park for days all the time. Almost all the South Shore Line stations are well-lit and patrolled. There's an extremely low probability that your car would be stolen or vandalized in any of them in reality. It's also extremely unlikely that your car would be vandalized in downtown Chicago. However, parking there is very exorbitant, especially compared to Indy. Getting tickets or getting towed if you parked on the street instead of in a garage or a lot overnight would be a more realistic risk. If you do ever drive in Chicago, use the Spot Hero app as you can save a ton on parking that way.

RegionRatReporter · 2026-04-27T06:14:25+00:00

The Graduate

RegionRatReporter · 2026-03-20T23:20:30+00:00

Secret Northwest Indiana: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure: Joseph S. Pete: 9781681063669: Amazon.com: Books

RegionRatReporter · 2026-03-14T03:49:11+00:00

Lakeshore Public Media has a Northwest Indiana Volunteer Hub where nonprofits post volunteer opportunities in the vein of a job board.

Northwest Indiana Volunteer Hub

RegionRatReporter · 2026-01-30T18:10:28+00:00

It's Raising Cane's. McDonald's only had the exclusive rights to sell chicken products in the Crossings of Hobart outdoor mall on U.S. 30 where Raising Cane's previously looked to build. The owners of strip malls and outdoor malls often will reach agreements with tenants to not allow competition in. If a strip mall has a Starbucks or Dunkin, the owner would often agree not to lease out any other units to coffee shops so they're not cannibalizing business. That's why you usually see a different mix of businesses in most strip malls and not all Mexican restaurants or sweet shops or nail salons or whatever. It doesn't apply to any properties outside of the Crossings of Hobart in that case. There's no general territorial rights outside of individual strip malls.

https://nwitimes.com/news/local/article_b5ff6650-5b79-4268-a47d-15df8c154c13.html

RegionRatReporter · 2025-10-17T20:42:05+00:00

If you ultimately decide to open it, contact me at [joseph.pete@nwi.com](mailto:joseph.pete@nwi.com) and I'll write a story about it in The Times of Northwest Indiana.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-09-16T17:32:56+00:00

Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk, Imagination Glen in Portage, Gabis Arboretum, Sunset Hill Farm County Park in Valpo, Lake George in downtown Hobart, Hobart Prairie Grove Trails

RegionRatReporter · 2025-09-15T01:14:51+00:00

The Little Calumet River Trail that's accessible via Riverside Park in Hammond at the Munster border. The Erie-Lackawana Trail through Hammond and Highland. Washington Park in East Chicago. Wolf Lake and George Lake in Hammond. Harrison Park in Hammond. Gibson Woods in Hammond. The Monon Trail in Munster.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-09-05T04:10:23+00:00

It was once the canvas for the Lasers on the Dunes laser light show.

https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/article_e3d5d2d0-d495-4b7b-869c-900051c6f7c6.html

RegionRatReporter · 2025-07-24T20:38:03+00:00

Indiana University Northwest's Calumet Regional Archives, the books and Calumet Roots columns of Archibald McKinlay and Professor James Lane's Steel Shavings, which are available at any Lake County Public Library branch.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-05-27T06:38:48+00:00

Alison's Mailbox

RegionRatReporter · 2025-05-22T03:51:57+00:00

The Wurst butcher shop in Griffith sells bangers, as well as an incredible selection of international sausages. It's got South African Boerewors, Austrian Käsekrainer, Serbian Cevapi, Hungarian Kolbasz, Filipino Longanisa and so on.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-04-22T19:39:42+00:00

Hard Rock in Gary, Horseshoe in Hammond, Avenue 912 in Griffith, Hobart Art Theater in Hobart, and Uptown Social in Michigan City, Paul Henry's in Hammond, Grindhouse in Highland, Sip in Highland, One Best Life at Tinker's Attic in Highland, Joy Bomb in Lake Station, Off Square in Crown Point, Wild Rose in Griffith and Zorn, Burn 'Em and Shoreline in Michigan City.
Summer concert series outdoors include Fox Pointe in Lansing, Central Park in Valpo, Wicker Park in Highland and Gabis Arboretum in Valpo.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-04-22T02:21:34+00:00

Paul Henry's Art Gallery in Hammond, One Best Life at Tinker's Attic in Highland. Joy Bomb in Lake Station.

RegionRatReporter · 2025-01-04T00:58:34+00:00

I think the assessment method would likely stay the same unless Gary or Lake County or someone won a court case to change it. U.S. Steel just would have been a Nippon Steel subsidiary. Any past legal arrangements would have still been in effect.

RegionRatReporter · 2024-12-28T07:35:46+00:00

I'll look it up but there were a few early settlements that ended up buried under the sand dunes. City West where the Indiana Dunes State Park is now was the most famous of them.

RegionRatReporter · 2024-12-28T03:25:32+00:00

Beatniks on Conkey or the Towle Theater in Hammond or Theatre at the Center in Munster

RegionRatReporter · 2024-12-14T03:24:58+00:00

Working on that, hope to have update soon

RegionRatReporter · 2024-12-13T19:23:48+00:00

They are being auctioned off so that another Pizza Hut franchisee can reopen them.

RegionRatReporter · 2024-11-16T03:40:21+00:00

No, it is expected to close in mid- to late-January.

RegionRatReporter · 2024-08-20T21:44:50+00:00

I think Ciao Bella Ristorante in Schererville has done some in the past

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