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The East Chicago Housing Authority built the West Calumet Housing Complex in the early 1970s with little fanfare, as the authority’s director quietly took more than $100,000 in kickbacks for helping to steer various contracts related to the project to…

EAST CHICAGO — In a newly released plan to move more than 1,000 residents from lead-contaminated housing, local officials described the relocation as “aggressive,” but added they believe it could be done with identified resources.

EAST CHICAGO — Residents packed inside the Riley Park Recreational Center on Saturday, eager to ask how the EPA plans to remove lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil in the Calumet neighborhood.

EAST CHICAGO — The East Chicago Housing Authority board approved two resolutions Wednesday intending to help residents of a public housing complex where alarmingly high levels of lead and arsenic were found in the soil.

Nearly 20 years after an EPA project manager told state and federal health officials about a long-demolished lead smelter that once operated on the site of a public housing complex and elementary school in East Chicago, residents are just learning…

EAST CHICAGO — Weeks after being told they are living on top of toxic soil, West Calumet Housing Complex residents are learning more about the city housing authority’s plans to relocate families out of the lead-contaminated complex by a Nov.…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence left the campaign trail to visit storm-damaged Kokomo this week, prompting residents and community leaders in East Chicago to question why he hasn’t made a similar appearance there, where families face a crisis of their own.

EAST CHICAGO — Lead problems in the West Calumet Housing Complex are creating havoc for the School City of East Chicago, affecting the finances and enrollment of a district that just balanced its budget and eliminated a deficit after years…

EAST CHICAGO — EPA and city officials said Friday the federal agency will not excavate any soil in the lead- and arsenic-contaminated West Calumet Housing Complex as the city housing authority and HUD work to relocate residents.

EAST CHICAGO — In a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, a Chicago-based nonprofit representing a group of West Calumet residents in the ongoing lead contamination crisis alleges the federal agency and local…

EAST CHICAGO — EPA officials said Wednesday four families at the West Calumet Housing Complex are preparing to accept the federal agency’s offer to deep clean their homes, and every resident eventually will have an opportunity to do the same.

EAST CHICAGO — About 200 residents living in the lead-contaminated West Calumet Housing Complex packed the neighborhood’s community center on Wednesday to learn more about the availability of housing vouchers to move out.

On his 54th day in the Vancouver Island wilderness, one in which whipping, frigid wind confined him to a tarped tent that kept flapping in his face, Sam Larson appeared to reach his breaking point on the final episode of…

When Sam Larson ventures into the woods, an Instagram account doesn't come with him. Though the Lincoln resident has been routinely blogging about his wilderness excursions and the pursuit of bushcraft skills since 2011, the limit-testing trips he took far…

She kept her win on "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition" a secret for six months.

Two grandson, one a Lincoln attorney, will be on the History reality show with a letter their grandfather received from Knute Rockne not long before the famous coach died.