Also known as Red Jacket, the village includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ).

The village may itself be included within the Calumet Historic District, a larger area which is NRHP-listed and which is a National Historic Landmark District.

Historic contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ), polycylclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) and heavy metals has put the canal under the EPA's Grand Calumet River Area of Concern ( AoC )— the only AoC to be listed impaired in all 14 beneficial use categories.

Calumet ( pipe ) | Calumet used by Black Hawk, on display at Black Hawk State Historic Site.

The district as recognized by the National Register of Historic Places was originally bounded by Trumbull Street, Calumet Street, Gibson Street, Grand River Avenue, Rosa Parks Boulevard, West Warren Avenue, Wabash Street, Railroad Tracks, and the Edsel Ford Freeway.

Calumet is served by the South O ' Brien Community School District.

Many parts of the township carry names inspired by the village's name, including the three high schools of Thornton Township District 205: Thornton Township High School in Harvey, Illinois ; Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois ; Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois ; Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois ; Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, Illinois and Thornton Fractional Center for Academics and Technology also in Calumet City, Illinois.

Calumet County is a county located in the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

Calumet ( ) is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U. S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that was once at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula.

It is bordered on the north by Calumet Township, on the south by the unincorporated town of New Town and Blue Jacket

What is now Calumet was settled in 1864, originally under the name of " Red Jacket ", named for a Native American Chief of the Seneca tribe.

Calumet is at an elevation of above sea level.

One of the biggest parts of the culture of not only Calumet, but the entire Copper Country is the pasty.

The Calumet Theatre is a theater and opera house which was constructed in 1900.

Calumet Council is headquartered in Munster, Indiana and serves Scouts in Indiana and Illinois. Calumet Council

Serving the youth of the 54 communities comprising the south suburbs of Chicago and Northwest Indiana since 1917, the Calumet Council is the local entity of the Boy Scouts of America and Learning for Life Programs.

Camp Frank H. Betz, located in Berrien Springs, MI ( USA ) is operated by the Calumet Council.

Due to the unique demographics of the Calumet Council, a special program designed to serve the hardest to reach " at risk " youth, called Scoutreach, is used in lower income communities.

Serving the youth of the 54 communities comprising the south suburbs of Chicago and Northwest Indiana since 1917, the Calumet Council is the local entity of the Boy Scouts of America and Learning for Life Programs.

Camp Frank H. Betz, located in Berrien Springs, MI ( USA ) is operated by the Calumet Council.

Due to the unique demographics of the Calumet Council, a special program designed to serve the hardest to reach “ at risk ” youth, called Scoutreach, is used in lower income communities.

Calumet Park is divided between two congressional districts.

The AMBO I Construction firm moved into the area in 1956, building homes in what is now known as the Garden Section, near the Calumet Expressway and just south of Sauk Trail.

Griffith is a town in Calumet and St. John townships in Lake County, Indiana, United States.

The city lies on the Calumet Shoreline, which is seen today as a sand ridge.

Merrillville is bordered by Gary and unincorporated Calumet Township, Lake County to the north ; Hobart to the northeast ; Union Township, Porter County to the east ; Winfield and Crown Point to the south ; Schererville to the west ; and Griffith to the northwest.

To be even more confusing, the area once officially known as Calumet was then renamed to Laurium.

St. Paul the Apostle Church, formerly known as St. Joseph ’ s Catholic Church, was formed in 1889 by Slovenian immigrants who came to the Calumet area to work in the booming copper mines.

In 1966, four of the five Catholic churches in the Calumet area were forced to merge because of the low number of parishioners and economic constraints.

When the Calumet Expressway was built in the late 1950s, the Strassburg area was seen as a prime real estate development.

Alone and with only a few goods which could be transported across a journey with horse and carriage, they camped in a clearing on higher ground, an area of the ancient Glenwood and Calumet shorelines, the future town of Griffith.

The town is bordered on the north by the Little Calumet River, a shallow river surrounded by a thin strip of wooded area ; and on the west by the Illinois state line.

It was hoped that these new communities would raise the standard of living for unemployed coal miners from nearby Calumet and similar " patch towns " in the area.

Industrial development in the Calumet River area began around the 1870s, and by 1890 the West reach of the Grand Calumet River was heavily polluted with the waste of steel mills, foundries, a meat packing plant, and glue and cornstarch factories.

In the northwest part of the state, it includes the Grand Calumet River area in Lake and Porter counties, and includes the cities of Gary and Hammond.

The fire cancelled the regional high school hockey season and forced other area teams to use the Calumet Colosseum in Calumet, Michigan.

The Southern Division includes the lines acquired from the Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad in 1992, centered around Madison and Janesville, as well as several lines acquired in the 1990s in the Madison area.

There were several subsidiary companies, such as NBI Press ( a publishing arm that printed a couple of plays as well as special editions of Calumet " K " and Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs with intros by Rand ); NBI Book Service ( which sold Objectivist books and books by non-Objectivists with similar views in a particular area ); and NBI Art Reproductions ( art by Frank O ' Connor, Joan Mitchell Blumenthal, and the portrait of Ayn Rand by Ilona Royce Smithkin ).

They and other Native peoples used South Chicago and the shallow Calumet River area as portages, for seasonal settlements, hunting and fishing thousands of years before White settlers arrived to the " New World ".

The area was mostly undeveloped swamp land north of Lake Calumet until after the American Civil War.

The first non-native settler in the area was David Perriam who, in 1837, claimed land north of the horseshoe bend in the Calumet River in an area referred to as Wildwood.

South of the Calumet River is mixed residential and commercial area.

In 2006, Bank Calumet merged with First Midwest expanding its presence in the northwest Indiana area.

In June 1887, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad called the Chicago and Calumet Terminal Railway ( C & CT ) consolidated several terminal railroads in the Chicago area with lines running between the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at McCook, Illinois to the south and south-east to Hammond, Indiana and a connection with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.