According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, officers responded just after 1:30 p.m. for reports of an overturned boat near the East Chicago steel mill in Lake Michigan. Authorities said there ...

Kleen, which operates the world's largest oil re-refinery, discharged unlawful pollutants into East Chicago's sewer system.

From Gary, Indiana’s steel mills to the oil refineries of Beaumont, Texas, and the toxic waste sites in San Francisco’s ...

A gathering of neighbors on ... "Once the mills left here, we were in big trouble. People lost their jobs. The neighborhood went down," said Thomas Sadzak of the East Side Chamber of Commerce ...