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Hammond (City in Lake co Ind)

a city in Lake co., Ind.; on the Grand Calumet river, and on the Pennsylvania Company, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Pere Marquette, the Michigan Central, and several other important railroads; 18 miles S. E. of Chicago, Ill. It has numerous railway supply shops, foundries, tanneries, chemical works, nail mills, packing houses, etc. There are electric lights, and street railways, public high school, 2 National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, and an assessed valuation of $5,000,000. Pop. (1910) 20,925; (1920) 36,004.