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Michigan City is a city in Northwestern Indiana.
The South Shore Line, an interurban commuter line that serves much of northern Indiana, has two stops in Michigan City - 11th Street and Caroll Avenue stations. The former is located in the city's historic downtown. It's original station house is currently shuttered, so riders have to make due with a small passenger shelter located at the tip of the adjacent parking lot. The later station is located near Michigan City's southern border, within the railroad's depot and repair facilities. late at night and early in the morning, South Shore Line trains only run between this station and South Bend.
South Shore Line runs on a single track embedded in the middle of the street as it travels though the Michigan City. When the train stops at 11th Street station, it literally stops in the middle of the street. The city designed special traffic lights that automatically signal the cars not to travel on this section of the street when the train is picking up and dropping off passengers.
In addition to South Shore Line, the city is served by Amtrak's Wolverine route, which stops in Michigan City twice a day. Amtrak uses the tracks along the lake shore, north of downtown but close to Washington Park, the Old Lighthouse Museum and the beach. The Michigan City station is a single platform with a rudimentary passenger shelter.
Michigan City Municipal Airport allows private and charter flights, but it isn't used by any commercial airlines. The closest commercial airport is the South Bend Regional Airport, which is located in South Bend, Indiana.
The city is served by Michigan Transit, a municipal bus network that operates Mondays-Saturdays. The buses run once every hour. It is made up of four one-directional routes that begin and end at Michigan City Public Library. Every route also stops at Marquette Mall at some point. Route 1 serves the city center, as well as the southern neighborhoods and the Washington Park area. Route 2 serves serves the center, southern and south-eastern neighborhoods. Route 3 passes though eastern and southern neighborhoods. Finally, Route 4 passes though the city's West Side before connecting to the southern neighborhoods.
The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore [1] begins on the western edge of Michigan City. The largest dune in the National Lakeshore, Mount Baldy [2], lies just inside the park. Access to the dune's summit (126 feet above Lake Michigan) is provided by a marked trail from the parking lot off the US-12.
Shoreline Brewery [3] (208 Wabash St) Brewpub near the harborfront, serves lunch and dinner.
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MICHIGAN CITY, a city of Laporte county, Indiana, U.S.A., on the S.E. shore of lake Michigan, about 40 m. E. by S. of Chicago. Pop. (1890) 10,776; (1900), 14,850, of whom 3662 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 19,027. Michigan City is served by the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, the Lake Erie & Western, the Michigan Central and the Pere Marquette railways, by interurban electric lines, and by several lines of lake steamships. The city contains a United States Life Saving Station and the Indiana State Prison, and is the seat of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. Its transportation 1 President Angell graduated in 1849 at Brown University, where he was assistant librarian in1849-1850and was professor of modern languages in 1853-1860; was editor of the Providence Journal in 1860-1866; was president of the University of Vermont in 1866-1871, was United States minister to China in 1880-1881, was a member of the joint commission of1887-1888to settle fishery disputes between the United States and Great Britain, was chairman of the international deep waterways commission in 1896, and in1897-1898was United States minister to Turkey.
advantages make it one of the principal commercial cities in the state. Its shipments of lumber are of special importance, and it has also a large transshipment trade in salt and iron ore. The total factory product in 1905 was valued at $6,314,226. The municipality owns and operates its water-works system. Michigan City was first settled about 1830, was incorporated as a village in 1837, and was first chartered as a city in 1867.
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