WHITING, a city of Lake county, Indiana, U.S.A., on Lake Michigan and the Illinois State line, 17 m. S.E. of the Chicago "Loop." It is on Federal highways 20 and 41, and is served chiefly by the Baltimore and Ohio, the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Pere Marquette railways, and lake steam ers. Pop. 10,145 in 1920; in 1930, 10,880 by the Federal census. Whiting is the centre of the industrial region known as the Calumet District, and its boundaries touch those of Hammond and East Chicago. Its principal industry is the refinery of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The city's assessed valuation for 1927 was $27,013,080. Whiting was founded in 1881, in corporated as a town in 1895, and chartered as a city in 1903.