Freight cars on a siding at a steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana. The community is heavily immersed in the steel industry. USA.
Freight cars wait on a siding at a steel mill in East Chicago, Indiana. The community is heavily immersed in the steel industry with mills abounding throughout the area. The mills are significant users of rail service for the transportation of both raw materials and finished product. East Chicago is an example of communities in the upper Midwestern part of the United States that historically have been highly dependent of heavy industry. For East Chicago, Indiana its dependency as been on the steel industry. As such, it is a city that has become identified with, what has been termed the "rust belt" of the United States.
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Location: East Chicago, Illinois, USA
Photo credit: © Bruce Leighty / Alamy / Afripics
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