My father and some of my uncles worked most all their lives at Inland Steel in Gary, Indiana.
All around Hammond, Indiana was the big steel mills/factories.
Actually I was adopted by my grandparents (my fathers parents) and I always like to make
that clear. I grew up in Hammond.
So to the point, in the 60's all that area of Northern Indiana was booming. In fact, most of
the Chicago land area, reached it's peak in population by the late 60's early 70's. After that
the population began to dwindle and dwindle and dwindle.
Perhaps you have heard recently on the news about the high crime rates in Chicago, gangsters, etc?
Today, there are towns/cities in the Chicago land area that are not much more than ghost towns.
Gary, Indiana for example, was once a very booming thriving town. I can remember walking to
Gary with my sister to get tacos from taco stands that served the best tacos you could get in the
USA.![:mrgreen:]( "Mr. Green")
Now, Gary, Indiana is dead. Even the cities around Chicago that dried up, yet still have populations,
are crime ridden and have turned into bad areas to live.
Do you know why?
Manufacturing. That is why. POOF! They went POOF!
Back in the early to mid 1900's people were going to Chicago and the surrounding areas for work.
Chicago was growing with industry. The steel factories were a great place to work. The pay was
fantastic. A man could feed all his family and send all his children to college on a steel mill wage,
PLUS buy a middle class home.
There was UNIONS too, of course. Some good and some not so good.
One by one, the USA lost their industry to other countries. Factories closed. The steel mills shut
down.
Even today as America tries to bring back it's factories, most are still overseas, in other countries.
Countries like Bangladesh that houses poor factories and very poor working conditions that make
items like clothing for major high priced department stores in the USA. The workers in Bangladesh
are paid very little money.
Most everything in the average American home today, can be linked back to a factory overseas...and...
it's not all made in China either.
So there are organizations in the USA that are working to not just bring factories back to the USA
but to also create better working conditions and better pay for people outside the USA such as
Bangladesh.
I find it ironic in some surveys because the very people that make many of these products, are
not targeted to take the survey. Kind of funny. Not haha funny. Just funny.
All around Hammond, Indiana was the big steel mills/factories.
Actually I was adopted by my grandparents (my fathers parents) and I always like to make
that clear. I grew up in Hammond.
So to the point, in the 60's all that area of Northern Indiana was booming. In fact, most of
the Chicago land area, reached it's peak in population by the late 60's early 70's. After that
the population began to dwindle and dwindle and dwindle.
Perhaps you have heard recently on the news about the high crime rates in Chicago, gangsters, etc?
Today, there are towns/cities in the Chicago land area that are not much more than ghost towns.
Gary, Indiana for example, was once a very booming thriving town. I can remember walking to
Gary with my sister to get tacos from taco stands that served the best tacos you could get in the
USA.
Now, Gary, Indiana is dead. Even the cities around Chicago that dried up, yet still have populations,
are crime ridden and have turned into bad areas to live.
Do you know why?
Manufacturing. That is why. POOF! They went POOF!
Back in the early to mid 1900's people were going to Chicago and the surrounding areas for work.
Chicago was growing with industry. The steel factories were a great place to work. The pay was
fantastic. A man could feed all his family and send all his children to college on a steel mill wage,
PLUS buy a middle class home.
There was UNIONS too, of course. Some good and some not so good.
One by one, the USA lost their industry to other countries. Factories closed. The steel mills shut
down.
Even today as America tries to bring back it's factories, most are still overseas, in other countries.
Countries like Bangladesh that houses poor factories and very poor working conditions that make
items like clothing for major high priced department stores in the USA. The workers in Bangladesh
are paid very little money.
Most everything in the average American home today, can be linked back to a factory overseas...and...
it's not all made in China either.
So there are organizations in the USA that are working to not just bring factories back to the USA
but to also create better working conditions and better pay for people outside the USA such as
Bangladesh.
I find it ironic in some surveys because the very people that make many of these products, are
not targeted to take the survey. Kind of funny. Not haha funny. Just funny.