Shifting Sands: The Restoration of the Calumet Area By Kenneth J. Schoon

Abstract

The mid-1900s were transformative years for northwest Indiana and its dunes environs. The “Save the Dunes” organization and the Port of Indiana were created, symbolizing the forced fusion of environment and industry that has come to characterize this corner of the Crossroads of America. The region’s unique placement on Lake Michigan adjacent to the “city of broad shoulders” that is Chicago came to attract recreational tourists as well as industrious entrepreneurs, generating the forces that would sculpt this landscape for generations.