Southern Indiana’s largest city is on an oxbow in the Ohio River, looking across the water to Kentucky. Home to three NYSE companies, Evansville is a regional center for commerce, manufacturing and higher education, but also culture, with important performing arts venues and museums. Downtown Evansville resonates with history, keeping many of its early 20th …
Often listed among the best places to live in America, Carmel is a suburban city north of Indianapolis that has grown exponentially since the 1990s. The story of Carmel goes back to a town called Bethlehem, platted in the 1830s. Today a lot of the city’s commerce, dining and culture is in modern, smartly designed …
Looking at Fishers today it’s hard to believe that as recently as the 1950s just a couple of hundred people lived here. The earliest Euro-American resident was the famed trapper William Conner, who in 1802 settled a plot of land on the east bank of the White River, now preserved as the fantastic Conner Prairie …
Sitting in the rolling hills of south central Indiana, Bloomington is a welcoming college town, home to Indiana University’s (IU) flagship campus. Announced by a grand gateway at the end of a wide avenue, the stately IU campus borders downtown and will draw you in for big-time concerts and comedy shows, Big Ten sporting action …
In the very northwest of Indiana, the city of Hammond touches the Lake Michigan shoreline and continues down the state line before cutting east in an L-shape. This is one of the oldest cities in Lake County, first settled in the mid-19th century and known for a wave of manufacturing that swept the region over …
OK, so Gary, Indiana might not be in many people’s travel plans, unless they’re coming to pay homage to Michael Jackson at his childhood home. Gary was hit hard by the collapse of its once prosperous steel industry, and has hemorrhaged residents since the 1970s, in true Rust Belt style. And yet the potential is …
A lively college town in Northwest Indiana, Lafayette has a population that swells during the semester thanks to Purdue University. The city was founded in 1825 and quickly prospered as a river town, with more than a dozen boats docking each day and spawning a bustling commercial area on the riverfront. Much of the architecture …
The seat of Delaware County in East Central Indiana originated as a Lenape (Delaware) village along the White River in the late 18th century. It’s hard to talk about Muncie without mentioning the Ball brothers, five industrialist siblings who relocated their glass factory here from Buffalo in the 1880s during the Indiana gas boom. Known …
In 1926, downtown Terre Haute in western Indiana became the intersection for two long-distance highways, the East-West US 40 and North-South US 41. These two roads crossed at 7th and Ohio in Terre Haute, and the city took on the nickname, The Crossroads of America. Terre Haute grew up in the 19th century as a …
In the space of a couple of decades, the population of this suburban city north of Indianapolis, has more than doubled to 70,000. Noblesville is the seat of Hamilton County, and the city’s long history is reflected at the beautiful central square, commanded by the Hamilton County Courthouse. A museum at the old Sheriff’s Residence …