EAST CHICAGO, a city of Lake county, Indiana, U.S.A., on Lake Michigan, adjoining Hammond and Whiting, and tom. S.E.. of the Chicago "Loop." It is served by the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal, the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend (electric), the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, the Indiana Harbor Belt, the Pennsylvania and the Wabash railways. Pop. 35,967 in 192o, of whom 14,663 were foreign-born white (largely from eastern Europe), and 54,784 in East Chicago is one of the rapidly growing cities in the "Calu met region," an important manufacturing district. Indiana Har bor, the part of the city that lies along the lake, is connected with the Grand Calumet river by a 3m. ship canal. The commerce of the port in 1927 was 5,855.511 tons, consisting largely of incoming coal, iron ore and limestone, and shipments of gasolene and steel products. The city's factory output in 1927 was valued at $171, 396,513. There are immense steel works and oil refineries and other important industries. The assessed valuation of property in 1927 was $82,052,330. East Chicago was founded in 1888; incorporated as a city in 1893. Its rapid growth began in the loth century. Between 190o and 1910 the population increased from 3,411 to 19,098, and in the next decade it almost doubled.