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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_Indiana_Barrier
TIL the city of Hammond, IN built a wall across its border with Gary, IN in 1981. Local leaders blamed flooding issues for necessitating the wall between the two cities. In 2006, they constructed a curb to restrict vehicle access to neighboring Calumet City, IL.
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So it’s the IRL Eagleton?
Grew up right there. It wasn’t about flooding and everyone knew it. That being said, karma is a bitch and Hammond isn’t much different anymore.
Hammond ain’t much better 🤣
It is clearly a wall to keep people out and not flood water. That being said I would likely build a wall if I lived next to Gary.
The dome is coming in 2025…
I fucking hate that wall. There’s like 2 through streets near where I live and if you suck at navigating (like me) and turn down a wrong street, you end up having to follow the one way street next to the wall to the next opening or turn around and make your way to the other one.
“It’s for flooding! A quality of life issue! A lot has been made about race- it’s not about that. It’s for traffic!”
Lived in the area of that hellhole back then. Don’t blame them. Shocked I made it out alive. The PTSD took decades to get over. Cal City on one side. Gary on the other. Hammond and East Chicago smashed in between.
Joliet IL used to be called Juliet but someone bought cheap land nearby and created Romeoville, trying to attract residents and tourists through association. The name was changed to Joliet to disassociate.
Bring it down to Mexico border
Ha. They also used to dump sand piles on roads coming in from Gary. Didn’t work, Hammond is pretty gross
Now entering Gary. Good luck with that
Pawnee/Eagleton must have been partly inspired by this