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Hammond

City in the northwestern corner of Indiana, situated at the confluence of the Little Calumet and Grand Calumet rivers, 21 mi/33 km south of Chicago, Illinois; population (1992) 84,250. It forms part of the metropolitan area of Gary-Hammond-East Chicago, which in its turn forms the southern fringe of the Chicago conurbation. Hammond is a major transportation center, connected to Lake Michigan via the Calumet Canal. Industries include soap, cereal products, publishing, railroad equipment, and transportation facilities for the city's surrounding steel plants and oil refineries.

It was settled in 1851. George Hammond, a pioneer in the transportation of refrigerated beef, set up a large meat-packing plant here in 1869. Hammond was incorporated as a city in 1883.

Hammond is the seat of Purdue University Calumet (1943).



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