LAKE STATION March 23rd, 2021 At approximately 10:00PM, in the 900 block of 28th Avenue, an altercation between two men left a Crown Point man with a gun shot wound, according to Lake Station. An Officer reported that when arrived on the scene, the gunshot victim shouted, “He shot me, he shot me”. The suspect in the shooting yelled back, “You keep stalking us”, and the victim shouted, “I don’t even know you”. The suspect has been identified as David...

Illinois residents who are fed up with their state’s second indoor dining ban are flocking to restaurants in Northwest Indiana so they can dine out as they did before the Covid 19 pandemic. When Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Illinois' second indoor dining ban in October due to surging COVID-19 numbers, many people hoped the restrictions would be short-lived. After three months restaurants in Illinois on the border northwest Indiana are seeing their customers headed to NWI restaurants...

Sometimes it can be tough enough to find a great sushi restaurant place in Northwest Indiana. Even tougher can be finding an affordable one. Tougher than both of those is finding a sushi restaurant that fills you up. I do not know of an all you can eat Sushi place in Da' Region, so we decided to take a day trip to Woow Japanese Restaurant in Orland Park Illinois. Woow has an all you can eat Sushi special from 11am to 2:30 PM for for just $21.99 per person. ...

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Potawatomi Indians were the original Merrillville, Indiana, residents until 1834, when a clearing in the woods was established for ceremonial purposes. It was called McGwinn Village until the following year when Jeremiah Wiggins settled there and renamed it Wiggins Point. Wiggins Point was a well-known stopping off point for wagon trains bound for Joliet, Illinois, along an old Indian trail called Sac Trail or Sauk Trail. Sixteen other trails came off of Sauk Trail to various destinations in the area.