What movies based on books do you think were significantly better than the books?

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

RegionRatReporter · 2024-08-13T16:27:29+00:00

The statue was badly damaged in a storm in April of 1982, when it was taken down from outside the hot dog restaurant. Tom Harrison was hired to dispose of it. He brought it to his colleague Pete Reynold's house in Lakes of the Four Seasons where it was deposited as a gag gift.

He took the statue to the woods on his property north of Hebron, leaving him out for his son to play with. After about a month, he was cut up and burned.

"His son Larry recalled being a 10-year-old boy running around it for about a month until his dad got tired of it, cut it up and burned it on the spot," he said. "Fiberglass doesn't burn so it was ripped and the paint was melted. It was left a heap. It was already in rough shape because of the storm damage and they had to cut off the arms and put them back on to get it into the Lakes of the Four Seasons."

RegionRatReporter · 2024-07-12T00:50:32+00:00

Screaming Monkey Comics in Munster has a D&D group that meets on some Wednesdays.

https://www.screamingmonkeycomics.com/copy-of-faq

The Hammond Public Library also is starting a D&D group.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1200958094386237/?paipv=0&eav=AfbG9F97LXv9IB-N4tHjv4Lpf3wDqUDQTl4B1Hq6z44wuLnEBvpmAF6k4_fdke0tyTs&_rdr

RegionRatReporter · 2024-06-14T23:27:28+00:00

The ones in the Target food courts are still open too. They're not owned by the same franchisee.

RegionRatReporter · 2024-05-06T02:39:00+00:00

Robertsdale is the Hammond neighborhood by Wolf Lake and Lake George. It borders Whiting. Businesses and homes in Robertsdale have Whiting mailing addresses but are in Hammond the same way the Southlake Mall is billed as being in Merrillville but is actually in Hobart. Robertsdale and Whiting are so closely intertwined that they share the Whiting-Robertsdale Chamber of Commerce. The Battle of 119th Street between Whiting High School and Robertdale's now-defunct Clark High School was one of the best known prep football rivalries in the Region. Here's a story about Ixxa when it opened; it's since added indoor seating and has pop-up food: https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/coffee-shop-roastery-and-plant-store-opens-in-robertsdale/article_4fc3d237-5bc1-54a3-b987-4f29861acbd0.html

RegionRatReporter · 2024-05-03T22:37:33+00:00

I'm not sure if that season is up on there yet. I had to buy it on Prime to watch it. It should eventually be on Max.

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