East Chicago
a city of Indiana, in Lake co. It is on the Pennsylvania, the Wabash, the Pere Marquette, the Baltimore and C Ohio, Chicago Terminal, and other railroads. It is on Lake Michigan and has excellent shipping facilities, which have been improved by the construction of a canal connecting the harbor with Calumet river. The chief industries are the manufacturing of iron and steel, cement, boilers, chemicals, and foundry products. Pop. (1910) 19,098; (1920) 35,967.