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1991 Map of Calumet City

Name: 1991 Topographic Map of Calumet City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1992
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1992

About this map

The Little Calumet River and Grand Calumet River define the industrial and residential corridors of this border region as it appeared in the early 1990s. The landscape is a complex patchwork of established communities like Calumet City and Hammond interwoven with the sprawling Cook County Forest Preserve, which provides significant green space at Lansing Woods and Wentworth Woods. Heavy industry is evidenced by massive Quarry operations near Thornton and several Claypits further south.

Transportation infrastructure dominates the geography, with complex interchanges such as the Calumet-Kingery Interchange facilitating interstate travel across the Illinois Indiana state line. For the genealogist, the map is remarkably dense with local institutions, from Holy Cross Cemetery and Assumption Cemetery to parochial centers like St Andrews Sch and St Jude The Apostle Sch. The southern portion reflects later 20th-century suburban growth in Sauk Village and Lynwood, contrasted against the deep-seated rail networks of the Conrail and Grand Trunk Western RR.