Illiana: The Border Area Between Illinois and Indiana

By Acie Cargill

This area encompasses the southeast side of Chicago and northwest Indiana. It is heavily populated. Maybe a couple million people. A lot of industry. A lot of degraded natural areas. Hard working people with modest homes and lifestyles. Many are religious. They have worked for everything they have and never expected any more than that.

Many of the people no longer accept pollution in their environment. They stand up and complain. Their world has already been abused, but they are against it getting any worse.

There are also poems here about events in the area, some good and some bad. Also some good and some bad individuals. This book is about the past and the present. Explanations and observations. Some tragedy, some light. A neutral outlook tempered by a love for nature, animals, and humanity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Acie Cargill
• Release date: Jul 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310361326

Acie Cargill

Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA Poet Laureate Mark Strand and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger, who wrote Little Big Man that Arthur Penn made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role. Cargill also studied journalism with instructor Jean Daily. His work is a synthesis of all these styles.He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He also is a member of the Grammy Association, The US Quill and Scroll Society.Cargill is a vegetarian, a former physician, a musical performer on a variety of instruments, an environmental activist, a lecturer, medical reviewer, a lover, a cannabis user, and a seer.

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Illiana – The Border Area Between

Illinois and Indiana

By

Acie Cargill

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Table of Contents

Synopsis

About The Author

1. The Night The Clocktower Burned / Pullman

2. Hobos in Pullman

3. I am Pullman

4. Asa Philip Randolph and the Pullman Porters Union

5. Young Jennie Curtis / Pullman

6. Pullman Recollections / Marlene Broderick

7. Bud Billiken Day Parade / Bronzeville

8. Gwendolyn Brooks / Poet Laureate / Bronzeville

9. Jazz Giants / Sunset Cafe / Bronzeville

10. The Great Migration / Bronzeville

11. Ida B Wells, Activist / Bronzeville

12. Chess Records / Bronzeville

13. Little Jimmie Blues / Bronzeville

14. Leopold and Loeb /Murder of Bobby Franks /Hyde Park

15. South Shore Cultural Center and Nature Area

16. Black Clouds Over the East Side

17. Petcoke Train

18. Oil Trains

19. Southeast Environmental Task Force / Tom Shepherd

20. The South Works, Republic, and Wisconsin Steel

21. Republic Steel Massacre

22. Walking on the Picket Line

23. Eugene Debs

24. Popovich Brothers / South Chicago

25. Calumet Dutch Settlers / South Holland

26. Calumet Flyway

27. Marian Byrnes

28. The Birds Remain / Margot Milde

29. Lake Calumet

30. Thismia Americana

31. Wolf Lake

32. Big Marsh

33. Never Defile This Sacred Place Again

34. Altgeld Gardens

35. Baseball on the South Side

36. Richard Speck and the Nurses / South Deering

37. On The Great Lakes / H. Lee White

38. Cruising the Ave / Roseland

39. Blessing the Water / Blue Island

40. Old Dolton and New

41. Acme Steel / Riverdale

42. Dumping the Calumet River Dredgings

43. She Jumped Into the Thornton Quarry

44. Sin Strip / Calumet City

45. Jimmy Reed at the Goat Club / Chicago Heights

46. Raceway Park / Calumet Park

47. Old Momence

48. US Steel, The Gary Works

49. Paul Henry Art Gallery and Open Stage / Hammond

50. St. Sava Serbfest Kolo Dance / Merrillville

51. South Shore Line Railroad

52. Walking in Marktown / East Chicago

53. The Casinos

54. John Dillinger Escapes from The Crown Point Jail

55. Rock and Roll McDonalds /Highland and Olympia Fields

56. The Great Fire 1955 / Whiting

57. Boycott BP / Whiting

58. Phragmites

59. USS Lead / East Chicago

60. Calumet Containers Cleanup / Hammond

61. Little, Grand, Calumet Rivers

62. The 1940 Hammond Tech State Championship

63. The Beautiful Dunes / Dorothy Buell

64. Tommy Dorsey at Midway Ballroom / Cedar Lake

65. Diana of the Dunes / Chesterton

66. The Great Blue Heron Rookery / Highland

67. Cruise Night at the Blue-Top Drive-in / Highland

68. Calumet Truck Farming / David Zandstra / Highland

69. I Fell In Love on Ridge Road / Munster

70. Jasper-Pulaski Sand Hill Cranes / Medaryville

71. Hammond Migratory Bird Sanctuary / Carolyn Marsh

72. Swinger’s Club / Lowell

73. Route 30 and Route 41, Schererville

74. Trooper

75. Big Mills in East Chicago

76. The Death of Paul Komyatti, Sr. / Hammond

77. Indytucky

78. Valparaiso, America

78. I’ll do my Job , But I Ain’t No Puppet

80. Terre Haute / Andrea Stevens

81. University of Chicago Folk Festival / Hyde Park

82. Dixie Highway

83. The Killing of Indiana State Trooper Scott Patrick / Gary

84. Chuck’s Gun Shop / Riverdale

85. Sherwin Williams

Synopsis

This area encompasses the southeast side of Chicago and northwest Indiana. It is heavily populated. Maybe a couple million people. A lot of industry. A lot of degraded natural areas. Hard working people with modest homes and lifestyles. Many are religious. They have worked for everything they have and never expected any more than that.

Many of the people no longer accept pollution in their environment. They stand up and complain. Their world has already been abused, but they are against it getting any worse.

There are also poems here about events in the area, some good and some bad. Also some good and some bad individuals. This book is about the past and the present. Explanations and observations. Some tragedy, some light. A neutral outlook tempered by a love for nature, animals, and humanity.

About the Author

Acie Cargill is a poet, a songwriter, and a prose writer. He studied poetry with USA Poet Laureate Mark Strand and Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. He studied novel writing with Thomas Berger, who wrote Little Big Man (that Arthur Penn made into a movie with Dustin Hoffman in the lead role). Cargill also studied journalism with instructor Jean Daily. His work is a synthesis of all these styles.

He is a member of American Mensa and formerly edited the Mensa Journal of Poetry. He also is a member of the Grammy Association, and The US Quill and Scroll Society.

Cargill is a vegetarian, a former holistic physician, a musical performer on a variety of instruments, an environmental activist, a lecturer, medical reviewer, a lover, a cannabis user, and a seer.

1. The Night The Clocktower Burned / Pullman

December, 1998

The Pullman administration building burned

The historical district was changed forever

No going back, accept the change and go on

Part of the structure was saved by heroic firefighters

They fought the flames all through the night

The clock