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204 dated events in 1990s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 204 dated mentions
1990s
- 1990George Kalamaras — the poet laureate of the Fort Wayne faculty
George Kalamaras came to Fort Wayne in 1990 to teach English at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne and stayed thirty-two years, retiring as professor emeritus at what is now Purdue University Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne
- 1990Vorderman: the service shop that became the Volkswagen store
In 1990, with his wife Connie and a small team of skilled technicians, he opened Vorderman Motor Werks as a European import service operation on Ley Road — the shop where Fort Wayne's imported cars were kept running by the man whose name was on the building.
Fort Wayne
- 1990Dylan Krieger: the poet
Dylan Krieger (born 1990): settled up from the same unresolved list, at compact size.
South Bend
- 1990Skylar Diggins — Washington High School to the WNBA
Skylar Kierra Diggins was born in South Bend on August 2, 1990, grew up in the city — her father directed a local recreation center, and she was in South Bend gyms, in her own telling, from the start — and played at Washington High School and then stayed home for Notre Dame.
South Bend
- 1990St. Margaret's House
Founding: St. Margaret's House began in a deacon's observation: the Reverend Sarah Tracy, of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James, saw women downtown with nowhere to go during the day, and in 1990 she and others at the cathedral envisioned a day shelter for women and children.
South Bend
- 1990Skylar Diggins: Cross-Reference
She was born August 2, 1990, in South Bend; at Washington High School her teams went 102–7 and she scored 2,790 points, won the 2007 state championship, and was named Miss Indiana Basketball and the Naismith and Gatorade national player of the year.
South Bend
- 1990The university's film institution at boundary, and the founder-across-the-line test
The institution: Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT) runs the county's durable film institution — the Notre Dame Student Film Festival, founded by Ted Mandell in 1990 : the department's own pages count the 36th annual festival on 24–25 January 2025 and the 37th in January 2026, with…
Osceola
- 1990"The world's most advanced cold-rolled steel finishing mill": the industrial superlatives
The ground's one percent-of-the-world class superlative is a sentence spoken by company officials to a magazine in 1990.
New Carlisle
- 1990Peterson Ultralight Flightpark — 36IN
The FAA record (as republished by AirNav, FAA information effective 17 April 2025) prints: identifier 36IN; position 41.5362° N, 86.4439° W (estimated), elevation 730 feet; "From city: 1 mile W of NORTH LIBERTY, IN"; use, private — "PERSONAL USE"; activation date 04/1990; no control tower; attendance unattended…
North Liberty
- 19901990–2026: the official course — census, county, fire territory, FEMA
From 1990 the name runs in the official record without a break. The 1990 census carriers tabulate Indian Village among the county's places as an incorporated place — the floor the frame pass printed for the incorporation gap, G-FR-1.
Indian Village
- 1990–1992A county name and a wrapped building
The change: In 1990 the South Bend Public Library was officially renamed the St. Joseph County Public Library — the name catching up with a service that had long since run past the city line — and in 1992 a new Main Library was dedicated, in the library's own words, "in its original location on 304 S. Main Street."
South Bend
- 1990–2006The Osco murders · Christopher Allen's four courtrooms, 1990–2006
On the morning of 25 August 1990, three employees were found shot to death inside the Osco Drug store on Western Avenue: Scott Dick, twenty-nine, the assistant manager, who had been the first to arrive to open the store; Tracy Holvoet, the pharmacist; and Connie Zalewski, forty-three, a store clerk.
South Bend
- 1990–2007The Branch in the Schoolhouse Years, 1990–2007
The Lakeville Branch first opened in December 1990, inside Lakeville High School. The system's own history page states the whole of it under its 1990 heading: "This new branch first opened in December at Lakeville High School."
Lakeville
- 1990–2020The four counts whole: 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020
The CDP's whole enumerated life fits in four numbers: 20,241 people in 1990, 28,284 in 2000, 30,465 in 2010, and 30,337 in 2020 — a rise of 39.7 percent in the place's first counted decade, 7.7 percent in its second, and then a fall of 128 people, four-tenths of one percent, in its third.
Granger
- 1990–2024The census line
The designated place has exactly four decennial counts, and the Story of Granger section prints them as the Bureau made them: the Granger CDP was first delineated for the 1990 census, and its series runs — 1990: 20,241.
Granger
- 1990–2024Composition in two runs: the foreign-born series, census by census
1990: foreign-born 3.5 percent of the CDP (banked fragment, from the 1990 census).
Granger
- 1990–2025The Crime Stoppers appeals · the city's working list
Geraldine Reasor, 64 — South Bend, May 3, 1990. On that day the 400 block of South Scott Street filled with police lights.
South Bend
- 1990–2026The Osco murders — Christopher Allen's post-dismissal record, and the case's standing in November 2026
The Murders file carries the case whole to the dismissal of the charges — the three killings at the Osco drugstore on August 25, 1990, the indictment of 1999, the hung jury, the 2002 conviction and 144-year sentence, the 2004 reversal, and the third jury's failure to agree in 2006.
South Bend
- 1990–2026A place the census invented in 1990: the frame and the counting rules
The Bureau first delineated Granger as a census-designated place for the 1990 census, and it has redrawn the line's measurements at every census since: the place the 2000 census measured covered 26.22 square miles of land, the 2010 Gazetteer file measures 25.567, and the 2020 Gazetteer file measures 24.692…
Granger
- 1990–2026Basketball whole: the sectional roll settled in part, and the coaching line to April 2026
New Prairie's girls' sectional championships stand in 1990, in 2000 — a title the IHSAA's own regional preview recorded as breaking a drought back to that 1990 championship — and in 2024, won under head coach Aimee Litka at 20–6, reported in April 2026 as the program's first sectional championship since 2000.
New Carlisle
- 1990–2026The modern layer: steel at the edge, and what is arriving
Its first monuments are the steel plants of the town's industrial park country: I/N Tek, completed in 1990, and I/N Kote, completed in 1991, the joint-venture coating lines whose arrival the district-era record already noted as the town's modern industrial note, and whose corporate course stands in the businesses and spine legs.
New Carlisle
- 1990–todayThe culture, part three: the Fort Wayne Farm Show
The trade's winter marketplace: The Fort Wayne Farm Show was founded in 1990 by Jack Thill, owner of Tradexpos of Austin, Minnesota, who had visited Fort Wayne in the 1980s and started the show in the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum; Thill died in July 2015, aged 90, with the show long established.
Fort Wayne
- 1990–todayThe District Truth: Named for the County, Taxed by Eight Townships
The system's own history page dates the county turn to a rename: "South Bend Public Library is officially renamed the St. Joseph County Public Library in 1990."
North Liberty
- 1990–todayMatt Cashore and Barbara Johnston: the university's cameras today
The staff line now: Matt Cashore, Notre Dame class of 1994, has photographed the university since he arrived as a student in the fall of 1990 — beginning with the Dome yearbook, where he was photo editor — and has been a staff university photographer since 2007.
Notre Dame
- 1990–todayThe Notre Dame film record — the department, the student festival, and Fighting Irish Media
Its engine is the Notre Dame Student Film Festival, which screens the films undergraduates make in the department's production courses: founded by faculty member Ted Mandell — the department's chronology places the first festival in the 1989–90 year, its festival pages say founded in 1990, and both forms print…
Notre Dame
- 1991The nitinol melt: Fort Wayne learns to make the metal itself
Fort Wayne Metals began working with nitinol in 1991, drawing wire from others' ingot.
Fort Wayne
- 1991The Burmese Christian congregations
The Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend's Catholic Charities established its Refugee Resettlement Program in 1975, after the fall of Saigon, and became a Bosnian resettlement site in 1993; the first Burmese refugees reached Fort Wayne in 1991, and in 2008 Catholic Charities resettled 1,469 refugees, primarily from Burma.
Fort Wayne
- 1991Where Indiana law drew the line
Glen Theatre, Inc. , 501 U.S. 560 (1991), the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's public-indecency statute, Indiana Code § 35-45-4-1, as applied to nude dancing in two South Bend establishments.
Fort Wayne
- 1991Alexander Toradze and the Toradze Piano Studio
In 1991 he was appointed the Martin Endowed Professor of Piano at Indiana University South Bend — the first endowed piano professor at any Indiana University campus, in IUSB's own account, the chair established through a gift from Lee and Geraldine Martin.
South Bend
- 1991The South Bend Chocolate Company: the licensed chocolate house
The founding, under a university's license: The South Bend Chocolate Company was founded on October 24, 1991, by Mark Tarner, a second-generation chocolate maker who grew up working in his father Don Tarner's Sugar 'N Spice shop.
South Bend
- 1991LaSalle Grill: the Four Diamond house, 1991–2026
The house: Mark McDonnell — the Tippecanoe manager of the previous entry — closed on the building at 115 West Colfax Avenue on December 31, 1990, and opened LaSalle Grill on April 8, 1991, as the Tribune recorded in its closing account of March 4, 2026, and the Chamber's twenty-five-year profile had recorded at the quarter-century.
South Bend
- 1991Coffee: the importer, the roasters, and the rebrands
One name is left out of the fragment deliberately: a Java Cafe founding in November 1991 by Todd Rippo rests on house history alone, with the present cafe's own copy ambiguous about its dates and geography; it is carried in this section's note as unresolved, not printed here as fact.
South Bend
- 1991The campus in court: Family & Children's Center v. School City of Mishawaka
The center's complaint to the Indiana Department of Education of 17 September 1991 was decided against it by the Division of Special Education on 9 December 1991, reconsideration denied 14 January 1992…
Mishawaka
- 1991The Ladder at Central Park, Counted
The ladder itself — the staircase of slotted chambers built in 1991 up the historic Mishawaka overflow Dam at Central Park — stands in the parks file as a work.
Mishawaka
- 1991Where Indiana law drew the line
Glen Theatre, Inc. , 501 U.S. 560 (1991), the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's public indecency statute, Indiana Code § 35-45-4-1, as applied to nude dancing: the establishments were businesses open to paying customers, the statute's rule for public places reached them through their own doors, and no membership…
Mishawaka
- 1991–1998The bypass question: the St. Joseph Valley Parkway at the city's edge
Whether any segment of the freeway lies inside Mishawaka's corporate limits is not established in the record reached, and the file prints the question at that strength rather than drawing the line itself: what the record establishes is a freeway on the city's southern fringe, in the township, close enough that the…
Mishawaka
- 1991–1998What the closing did to the households
Jesup had made only partial payments on its pension obligations in 1989, 1990 and 1991; six of its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy in December 1991; and the Uniroyal Plastics pension plan was terminated on February 20, 1992, holding assets of $7.5 million against benefit liabilities of about $164 million — underfunded by $157 million.
Mishawaka
- 1991–1998The bypass: US 20 leaves the street
The through traffic that had defined Lincolnway for sixty years left it in two dated steps: the St. Joseph Valley Parkway took US 20 off the valley's main streets in sections — the section from US 31 to State Road 19 opened 11 December 1991, and the section from State Road 19 to County Road 17 opened 9 October 1992…
Osceola
- 1991–2008Lloy Ball: IPFW's setter, and the third gold
He chose instead to play volleyball at IPFW for his father, from 1991 to 1995, a hometown decision this section records with some emphasis, because everything that followed was built on it.
Fort Wayne
- 1991–2010Wrestling — Al Smith's title, eleven straight team finals, and Darrick Snyder's two
Recomputed from the finals tables: three championships (1991, 2008, 2010), two runners-up (2000, 2007).
Mishawaka
- 1991–2023Basketball after the Pistons: the Fury and the Mad Ants, 1991–2023
The Fort Wayne Fury joined the Continental Basketball Association — the era's top minor league, the NBA's unofficial farm system — in 1991 and played ten seasons, the best of them the 1995-96 finals run, though the only winning season and only division title came in 1997-98, the league's coaching chair passing through…
Fort Wayne
- 1991–2026The Grape Road corridor whole: centers, big boxes, succession
Grape Road filled in around the mall: in July 1991 the Mishawaka Common Council approved the rezoning for University Center, directly across Grape Road from the mall, and the center was trading by the autumn of 1993, when the Tribune recorded a restaurant preparing to open there by the end of September, two doors from…
Mishawaka
- 1991–2026The later wars: Desert Storm to the present, honestly framed
No name in either roll carries a Granger home of record, and the Gulf War of 1991 adds none on the lists consulted.
Granger
- 1991–2026The marshal's department — from the ordinance book to Marshal Croymans
The ordinance record opens the modern course: Town Code Chapter 98, with its fee schedule for "police, case, or other Marshal's Department reports" ($5 per copy), traces to Ordinance 819 of 17 December 1991, and a Cumulative Non-Reverting Law Enforcement Training Fund stands from 1996.
New Carlisle
- 1991–2026The community foundation: the county's pooled vehicle, and the New Carlisle fund test
The foundation, seated in South Bend (EIN 23-7365930), is carried in the secondary record at a 1991 founding (its directory listings) and at an establishment in 1992 (the philanthropy press, updated July 2024); the two tellings print side by side, unmerged, the settler being the foundation's own charter record.
New Carlisle
- 1991–todayThe language wakes · myaamiaataweenki
The instruments were archives: the French missionary dictionaries, the treaty interpreters' vocabularies, and the wordlists that tribal families had kept in private hands…
Fort Wayne
- 1991–todayBunche Montessori Early Childhood Center
In 1991 Bunche became a magnet school offering a Montessori program for students from age three through fifth grade.
Fort Wayne
- 1991–todayCasey Cooper, COOP3RDRUMM3R: the most subscribed drummer comes to Sweetwater
Built elsewhere, landed here: Casey Aaron Cooper was born on 27 September 1991 in Arlington, Texas, opened his channel on 20 November 2007, and began posting in earnest in 2011, in his college days at Georgia State.
Fort Wayne
- 1991–todayThe clerk's desk: keeper of the record
The clerk's succession before the 1990s is not verified in the sources reached for this section, and the gap is printed rather than filled: the line below begins where the documents begin, with the clerk whose signature closes the council's 1991 valedictory to John Voorde.
South Bend
- 1991–todayBroadcast: WUBU, 102.3 FM — the station licensed to New Carlisle — and the South Bend–Elkhart signals that serve the town
The broadcast test returns the opposite of the television test: no television station is licensed to New Carlisle in the records reached — but a full commercial FM station is, and has been since 1991.
New Carlisle
- 1992The unnamed · and the one who got her name back
Tabetha Ann Murlin: On May 15, 1992, a construction worker renovating a vacant house at 3512 Reynolds Street found a woman's body in its flooded basement, in eight to twelve inches of water.
Fort Wayne
- 1992A MacArthur Fellowship: John Henry Holland
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named him a MacArthur Fellow in 1992, the honor the press calls the genius grant; the Franklin Institute's Louis E. Levy Medal (1961) and the Harold Pender Award (1999) stand on either side of it in his record.
Fort Wayne
- 1992The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County: the pooled vehicle
Carried whole in the Charities record: the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County stands in this history’s Charities record at full size — its founding printed there at its documented conflict (1992 in the foundation’s own account, 1991 in another of its tellings, an Internal Revenue Service determination of May…
South Bend
- 1992AM General as an automobile maker: the Hummer line, built across the line
The Hummer and the H1: The civilian Hummer — the military HMMWV's road-going twin, whose production the Businesses section dates from 1984 at Mishawaka — opened for civilian sale on 14 March 1992.
South Bend
- 1992The friendship layer: sister cities
The first was Częstochowa, Poland — the Common Council formally ratified the sister-city agreement on 21 July 1992, a tie to the country from which so many of the west side's founders had come, carried on educational, cultural and tourism exchanges.
South Bend
- 1992The trains at the terminal: the South Shore's airport station
The railroad reached the airport in November 1992: The South Shore Line's airport station was dedicated on 20 November 1992 and the line's terminus moved to the airport on 21 November 1992 — the station record and the line record differ by the day, and both are printed.
South Bend
- 1992Anthony Barr: Born Here, a Four-Time Pro Bowler
Anthony Barr was born March 18, 1992, in South Bend, and raised in Los Angeles, where he attended Loyola High School — the tie is birth, printed at that strength, and the formation was California's.
South Bend
- 1992A League of Their Own — the league was this city's; the cameras were not
But the 1992 film that made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League famous did not shoot a frame in South Bend, on the production record reached: its tryouts were filmed at Chicago's Wrigley Field…
South Bend
- 1992Rudy (1993) — the second production, fifty-two years later
The fifty-day shoot, the notes say, began in South Bend in late October 1992, and six weeks of filming took place at Notre Dame, at Holy Cross Junior College, and at a local bar the notes name as Cap N' Cork; the Notre Dame locations the notes enumerate are the twin lakes, Notre Dame Stadium…
South Bend
- 1992Bingo, raffles, and the license
The Department of Revenue was given enforcement of the charity gaming laws in June 1992; the system now sits with the Indiana Gaming Commission under Indiana Code Title 4, Article 32.3, most recently amended by Senate Bill 108 (Public Law 111, signed April 30, 2025), which among other changes authorized electronic…
South Bend
- 1992Christopher Columbus: David Layman, 1992
The second City Hall bronze: Five years after the Princess, the City Hall ground received a second bronze: Christopher Columbus , by David M. Layman, dated 1992, recorded by the same 1993 Smithsonian survey, owned by the City of Mishawaka.
Mishawaka
- 1992The Tivoli: the empty palace and the wrecking ball
In 1992 the City of Mishawaka bought its palace, with plans, announced that year, to demolish it. The theater had been closed a year; the city had decided the northern edge of its downtown wanted the ground more than the building.
Mishawaka
- 1992The craft era: the brewpub in the pizza palace, Evil Czech, the chain house, and the taproom
The Mishawaka Brewing Company is documented in operation by October 1992, when a bartender later its general manager was hired (his own employment record), and it is remembered in the trade as the second microbrewery to open in Indiana, after Broad Ripple's of 1990.
Mishawaka
- 1992The shared house and the money: how funding reaches the arts bodies here, source by source
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, established 1992, runs the county's arts funding as a system: its ArtsEverywhere Fund, built with the Leighton-Oare Foundation, makes capacity grants to $10,000, matching program grants to $10,000, and major-venture grants to $50,000 a year for three years…
Granger
- 1992The pooled vehicle whole: the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
The Foundation's own record dates its connecting work from 1992: "Since 1992, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County has been connecting people who care with causes that matter" (commercial directories variously print a 1991 founding; the Foundation's own 1992 governs, and the conflict prints here).
Granger
- 1992The friendship layer, at its true, small size
The county seat's layer is one relationship, printed at its size: Częstochowa, Poland, has been South Bend's sister city since 1992 , the relationship established by Mayor Joe Kernan after a visit to Eastern Europe, with delegations exchanged in 1993, 1995 and 2000 (the Collegium Cantorum Choir) and South Bend…
Osceola
- 1992The New Carlisle Historic District: twenty-four acres on a hundred-foot street
The nomination, measuring the street as it found it in 1992, records it at forty-five feet, and notes that even so it "is wider than the town's other streets."
New Carlisle
- 1992Stewarts Green Acres Airport — IN38
The township's second strip is the larger of the two survivors: the FAA record (AirNav republication, FAA information effective 22 January 2026) prints identifier IN38; position 41.5453° N, 86.4528° W (estimated), elevation 725 feet; "From city: 2 miles NW of NORTH LIBERTY, IN"…
North Liberty
- 1992The records regime: where this township's dead are written down
The working reading is the county society's: St. Joseph County, Indiana Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. 1, covering Greene, Liberty, and Lincoln Townships (SBAGS, 1992) — attested by the Historical Bureau's own citation of it for Porter-Rea — with a surname index standing on the society's site…
North Liberty
- 1992–1993All for One productions
Founding: all for One began in 1992 with a "what if" conversation among five friends who wanted a faith-based theatre company that would perform outside any church, "in the heart of the arts community."
Fort Wayne
- 1992–1999The civilian Hummer
The military truck, modified for the civilian market and powered initially by the 6.2-litre GM diesel, went on sale on 14 March 1992.
Mishawaka
- 1992–2000The historic district and the late-century town
The New Carlisle Historic District entered the National Register of Historic Places on 14 December 1992 (reference 92001653), on a nomination prepared by Glory-June Grieff in May 1992 and carried in the state's SHAARD record…
New Carlisle
- 1992–2024Joseph Corcoran · two trials, and the execution that ended a fifteen-year pause
On 14 April 1992 his parents, Jack Corcoran, 53, and Kathryn Corcoran, 47, were found shot dead at their home on Ball Lake in Steuben County.
Fort Wayne
- 1992–2026The endowment instead of a federation: ArtsEverywhere, 2004
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County was established in 1992, and in December 2004 it launched the ArtsEverywhere Initiative, when the Leighton-Oare Foundation awarded a $3 million challenge grant to establish an endowed ArtsEverywhere Fund, in the foundation's words "a substantial, permanent, and growing…
South Bend
- 1992–2026The community foundation as the pooled vehicle: the county's endowment house, and the Granger-named-fund test run against its public record
The vehicle: The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County Inc., seated at 305 South Michigan Street, South Bend, is the pooled vehicle of the register's pattern: on its own published account, "since 1992, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County has been connecting people who care with causes that matter"…
Granger
- 1992–todayThe Prince Family: from a Little Caesars counter to twelve million
Two Fort Wayne kids: Damien Antwon Prince was born in Fort Wayne on 18 February 1992 and attended South Side High School.
Fort Wayne
- 1992–todayAlyssa Forever: the Allure winner who quit her job at a retirement home
The fastest rise in this section: Alyssa Wallace was born on 7 June 1992 and grew up in Fort Wayne. She started posting beauty videos to YouTube in 2013, after a photograph of her defined curls drew attention on Instagram, and the rise was close to immediate.
Fort Wayne
- 1992–todayThe Community Foundation: the county's endowment, built without a founding fortune
The institution: The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County was established in 1992, with Rose Meissner as its president from its first year, and it grew into one of the top hundred community foundations in the United States…
South Bend
- 1992–todayThe 933 Corridor, at Its True Boundary
The corridor's senior house is the Inn at Saint Mary's, at 53993 State Road 933: opened in 1992 in the directory record, 150 rooms, owned by Holladay Properties, with the Gillespie Conference and Special Event Center adjoining.
South Bend
- 1992–todayCalvary Christian School: the chapel's school on Fir Road
The smallest school seated in Granger is a chapel school: Calvary Christian School, at 53494 Fir Road — the address of Calvary Chapel Granger — was founded in 1992 by a group of parents and educators who were members of Calvary Chapel, on the NCES-sourced profile that carries its founding.
Granger
- 1992–todayThe pooled vehicle: the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County
The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County was established in 1992 (its profiles differ by a year at the edges — one compiler prints founded 1991…
North Liberty
- 1993Headwaters Park is dedicated
The flood-control project remakes the old “Thumb” as the city's festival ground, the ground where the Current band's summer festival now stands.
Fort Wayne
- 1993Keith Busse, Mark Millett and Richard Teets — Steel Dynamics
Steel Dynamics was founded by three men who had already built one famous mill: Keith E. Busse, Mark D. Millett and Richard P. Teets Jr. were Nucor executives who had put up the Crawfordsville thin-slab minimill — the world's first — and in August 1993 they incorporated their own steel company in Indiana, headquartered in Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne
- 1993The Mirro Center: a community system's research house
The system's clinical research department was founded in 1993, and by its own count Parkview has participated in more than 1,000 clinical trials of medical devices and pharmaceuticals since 1990…
Fort Wayne
- 1993The first hour: dial-up, and the provider the record barely keeps
Indiana's documented first ISP story is Indianapolis's: Leo Doyle started IndyNet there in 1993, a founding the Indianapolis provider Midwest Internet states in its own 2003 release, noting that IndyNet had by then become part of EarthLink.
South Bend
- 1993The Food Bank of Northern Indiana
Founding: The Food Bank's own published history begins with a telling word: in May 1993 the Hunger Education Task Force of the United Religious Community of St. Joseph County took up "re-establishing" food banking in the region…
South Bend
- 1993Hannah's House: the maternity home that takes no public money
Its federal-record compilations give a 1993 founding; its documented operation begins in the press of 2000, when the South Bend Tribune described a privately funded home housing up to seven pregnant teens and young women…
Mishawaka
- 1993The Immigrants: Kathryn Field, 1993
It was dedicated on 12 September 1993. Made in Mishawaka, of Mishawaka's subject: The work's fabrication is part of its record: the inventory names Max Feitz and the Mishawaka Steel Fabricating Company as its fabricators — a Mishawaka sculpture, of the immigrant families who built Mishawaka, cut and welded by a Mishawaka shop.
Mishawaka
- 1993The country record: Joy Lynn White's ACM nomination, raised here
The honor: In 1993, at the 28th Academy of Country Music Awards, White was nominated for Top New Female Vocalist, the Academy's newcomer honor for women, on the strength of her debut album Between Midnight & Hindsight .
Mishawaka
- 1993The corridor tables: Day Road, Grape Road, and the avenue successions
In 1993 the Tribune announced that a Honkers Restaurant would open there by mid-March — Jeffrey Nickerson, owner-operator of the Honkers at 3939 South Michigan Street in South Bend, had bought the building from Marv Moore…
Mishawaka
- 1993The clerk-treasurer's line: two named holders, one open seat of paper
The first holder the record names is Donna Reinholtz, Town Clerk in May 1993, when she asked the Mishawaka Enterprise to publish the town's annexation ordinance — the federal court file in the Kirk case preserves her name and act (the annexation entry below).
Osceola
- 1993–1994The museum's name: "Regional," bounded
City records of 15 November 1993 and 11 March 1994 use both names inside the same documents: the museum's director, Susan Visser, is styled of the "South Bend Museum of Art" while her institution is the "South Bend Regional Museum of Art."
South Bend
- 1993–1995The public "clubs": Autumn Ridge and Chestnut Hills
Autumn Ridge Golf Club, at 11420 Old Auburn Road on the city's north side, opened in 1993, designed by Ernie Schrock — 7,103 yards, water in play on fifteen holes, a four-star rating in Golf Digest's places-to-play rankings as the Journal Gazette's directory reported it.
Fort Wayne
- 1993–1995The Mishawaka Monitor, 1993–1995
The library holds one more Mishawaka title: the Mishawaka Monitor, April 8, 1993, to February 9, 1995. Twenty-two months of a 1990s paper, the last new newspaper masthead the county's collection records for the town in the twentieth century.
Mishawaka
- 1993–2000Headwaters Park: the ten million that came from everybody
The gift: Downtown's floodplain park exists because a commission raised 10 million dollars from the private sector between 1993 and 2000 — businesses, foundations and residents giving to build Headwaters Park on land that had flooded for a century — and raised roughly 1 million dollars more as a maintenance endowment.
Fort Wayne
- 1993–2004The first hour: dial-up, and the provider record that barely exists
The state's documented first-provider story is likewise Indianapolis's: Leo Doyle started IndyNet there in 1993, a founding the Indianapolis provider Midwest Internet states in its own releases, noting IndyNet had become part of EarthLink.
Mishawaka
- 1993–2026The Modern Homicide Record, as the Official Counts Give It
In 1993 the county built a single instrument for its worst cases: the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit, overseen by the prosecutor's office, which investigated homicides across the county for twenty-eight years.
South Bend
- 1993–2026How Unsolved Cases Are Kept
The unit that was: For most of three decades, homicides in this city and county were worked by one joint body, the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit, created in 1993 and staffed by the county's departments together.
South Bend
- 1993–2026How Unsolved Cases Are Kept
The unit that was: For most of three decades, homicides in this city and county were worked by one joint body, the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit, created in 1993 and staffed by the county's departments together.
Mishawaka
- 1993–2026The firsts, tested one by one with its settler, and every woman the reached record does name
What the reached record does name, printed at reached strength and expressly not as firsts: in the clerk line, Donna Reinholtz stands as Town Clerk in May 1993, and Denese Thornburg as clerk-treasurer from 1 January 2012 through 31 December 2019 on the SBOA schedule…
Osceola
- 1993–2026The modern record, the standing negatives, and what the file does not carry
The County Metro Homicide Unit, the joint unit that worked St. Joseph County's killings from 1993 until its dissolution on January 1, 2022, spans most of this era, and in the whole of that span no Walkerton or Lincoln Township case stands in the record reached for this build for the unit to have worked…
Walkerton
- 1993–todayBaseball returns: the Wizards and the TinCaps, 1993–today
Its first game, on 10 April 1993 at Waterloo, was won on a triple play turned before a crowd of about four thousand; the home opener followed on 19 April.
Fort Wayne
- 1993–todayBaseball returns: the Wizards and the TinCaps, 1993–today
Affiliated baseball came back on 19 April 1993, and it came back as the oldest franchise in its league.
Fort Wayne
- 1993–todaySteel Dynamics, Inc.
Founded: Incorporated in August 1993 in Indiana, headquartered in Fort Wayne at 6714 Pointe Inverness Way.
Fort Wayne
- 1994The bicentennial year: 1994
Two hundred years, marked in trails and stone: Fort Wayne celebrated the bicentennial of Wayne's fort in 1994, a century after the party it had nearly forgotten — and the year's most permanent product was a way of walking through the history itself.
Fort Wayne
- 1994The broadcast layer: public television's producers
WFWA — PBS Fort Wayne — has made local documentary in the city for decades; the library catalog credits Claudia Johnson as producer, writer, and editor of Fort Wayne Memories: The '50s (1994), the station's oral-history portrait of the city's postwar decade.
Fort Wayne
- 1994Demetrius Jackson: The County's Scoring King
Demetrius Jackson Jr. was born September 7, 1994, in South Bend, and played at Marian High School in Mishawaka — the boundary printed as everywhere in this history — where he concluded his career as the all-time leading scorer in St. Joseph County history, 1,934 points, breaking a record that had stood for nearly twenty-five years.
South Bend
- 1994The History Museum — the move of 1994 and the institution today
The move: In 1994 the society left the old courthouse and opened a modern museum building on the Copshaholm grounds at the corner of West Washington and Chapin streets — a campus of some ten acres holding the museum building, the Oliver Mansion, the Worker's Home and the Oliver Gardens.
South Bend
- 1994The first public library on the web
In 1994, the library's history records, it was "the first library in the nation and the second worldwide to go live on the Worldwide Web"; the South Bend Common Council's 2015 resolution states the same first in the form this history carries: "the first public library in the United States to have a World Wide Web page."
South Bend
- 1994Festive dress: the Greek costumes, and the Polish silence
The Hellenic Dance Troupe of St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church, established in April 1994 under Father Christ Kontos, performs at the parish's Greek Festival in what its own history calls authentic costumes: its first were the Karagouna of Thessaly and an island dress of Symi, and by the 2017 festival the senior troupe…
South Bend
- 1994Seated here, I: Bethel University's Dr. Albert J. Beutler Athletic Hall of Fame
Its inaugural class was inducted in 1994, and its banquet has run annually since: the university's announcement of the Class of 2017 calls that banquet the twenty-third, and its Hall of Fame Golf Classic, the hall's companion event, reached its twenty-eighth running in 2020 and its thirty-second in 2024, which places…
Mishawaka
- 1994Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God — Serbian Orthodox, consecrated 1994
The monastery, at 32787 Early Road, New Carlisle (telephone 574-654-7994), was consecrated on June 19, 1994, the Feast of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Liturgy served by Serbian Patriarch Pavle with several bishops.
New Carlisle
- 1994How one band stayed: the mechanism, read in the statute
L. 103-323, 21 September 1994), state it in so many words: "In the Treaty of Chicago 1833, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians was the only band that negotiated a right to remain in Michigan."
Lakeville
- 1994–1995The Saint Joe Road robbery · $174,441 and a detective down
The robbery: at about 10:30 in the morning on January 27, 1994, two men entered the NBD Bank at 5767 Saint Joe Road and robbed it of $174,441.68 — the largest bank take documented in Fort Wayne's record.
Fort Wayne
- 1994–1996The Rain Forest Decade: Dome, Orangutan Valley, Tiger Forest
The dome: In 1994 the zoo opened the Indonesian Rain Forest, a domed exhibit whose walk-through aviary put visitors inside a working rain forest of birds, fish and reptiles.
Fort Wayne
- 1994–2003Patrolman Bryan Scott Verkler: the hometown line
The South Bend Tribune 's tenth-anniversary account calls him "the Walkerton native"; the Tribune's 2003 reporting gives him as a graduate of John Glenn High School in Walkerton, class of 1994…
Walkerton
- 1994–2014The new US 31: fifteen miles of new territory
The largest road project in the county's history took twenty years from project number to open road: The federal project record for the rebuilding of US 31 between Plymouth and South Bend carries designation number 9405230 — numbered, that is, in 1994.
South Bend
- 1994–2014The Silver Hawks, 1994–2014
The name: The club considered a new name in 1994 and settled on Silver Hawks, as a tribute to the Studebaker Silver Hawk, the automobile built across the street from the stadium in the years of the great plant.
South Bend
- 1994–2016The philanthropy turn, measured: one family foundation, folded into a university fund — and the county's pooled vehicles at the boundary
The event: in 1994 Ara Parseghian — the Notre Dame coach who lived and died (2 August 2017) at his home in Granger — founded the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation with his son Michael and daughter-in-law Cindy, to fund research into Niemann-Pick Type C disease, which had taken three of his grandchildren.
Granger
- 1994–2026The Crowds: Attendance and Honors, Dated
In 1994 the zoo drew 540,000 guests — the record until the African Journey broke it. In 2009 more than 613,000 came.
Fort Wayne
- 1994–2026The defining closings, gathered: a flag stop, a paper, a schoolhouse, a pause
The flag stop, 1994: the South Shore's flag stop at New Carlisle ended — the railroad that had stopped here since the interurban age stopped stopping, and the corridor's passenger age closed with it (the transportation leg carries it).
New Carlisle
- 1995Parkview becomes a system: 1995, the north campus, and the Regional Medical Center of 2012
The system era began in May 1995, when Parkview Health System, Inc. was incorporated and the hospitals at Columbia City (Parkview Whitley) and Huntington joined it; Parkview Noble followed in 2000, Parkview LaGrange in 2005, Parkview Wabash in 2015, and Parkview DeKalb in 2019, with further hospitals…
Fort Wayne
- 1995The sale of Lutheran, the CHS era, and the fight of 2017–18
From church hospital to chain hospital: On 1 August 1995 the Lutheran Hospital Association sold the assets of Lutheran Hospital of Indiana to a subsidiary of Quorum Health Group.
Fort Wayne
- 1995The Orangutans: Tengku, Tara, Asmara, Raya
The line: The zoo's orangutan record begins with a single arrival: Tengku, a male Sumatran orangutan who came from Zoo Atlanta in 1995, the year Orangutan Valley opened.
Fort Wayne
- 1995Fantasy of Lights: Franke Park by car, at Christmas
The start, fixed by counting: No founding announcement for the Fantasy of Lights was found; its first season is fixed by the event's own season counts, which are consistent: the Waynedale News called 2021 the event's 27th year and 2023 its 29th season, and the arithmetic puts the first season in 1995, the same autumn…
Fort Wayne
- 1995Tire Rack: the tester that sold online
Tire Rack began its website in 1995, in the first months of commercial web retail, and used it first for the thing that made the company: it posted its tire reviews and test results where anyone could read them.
South Bend
- 1995Islamic Society of Michiana — the Al Noor Mosque
Notre Dame Magazine's account, written in 2006, states: "Built in 1995, the mosque on Hepler Street is the prayer home to Notre Dame Muslims and the 300 Muslim families who drive in from as far away as Sturgis, Michigan."
South Bend
- 1995The Greer case · a home invasion and two judgments of the Supreme Court
In the early morning of 12 June 1995, three armed men — Michael Greer, Terrance Mitchem and Dorian Lee — broke into a South Bend house occupied by four adults, two men and two women.
South Bend
- 1995The building: 111 South St. Joseph Street
The Hall opened on August 25, 1995. Kent Stephens, the Hall's historian and curator, was there from the arrival and remembered the first night seventeen years later: "The gridiron was filled with people.
South Bend
- 1995The museum that left — the College Football Hall of Fame
Its museum life: For seventeen years downtown South Bend held a national museum: the College Football Hall of Fame, opened 25 August 1995 at 111 South St. Joseph Street, in a 52,000-square-foot building connected to Century Center, two miles from the campus whose team filled its halls.
South Bend
- 1995The Nobel tie: one laureate, born here
The honor: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1995 went jointly to Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and Eric F. Wieschaus, for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development — the work that found, in the fruit fly, the genes that lay out a body plan.
South Bend
- 1995Club 23 and the Notre Dame Avenue rooms
Its documented record opens with fire: in June 1995 the club burned in the small hours — the bar had closed at 3 a.m. as usual; the alarm came at 3:53, the fire gutting the back pool room and damaging most of the interior, its cause undetermined in Fire Inspector Richard Fogle's finding as the Observer reported it…
South Bend
- 1995National, music IV: Roger Hawkins, in two halls at birth strength and no stronger
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame inducted the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section in 1995 and profiles Hawkins individually in its own record; the Musicians Hall of Fame at Nashville inducted him with the Swampers in October 2008.
Mishawaka
- 1995The standards field's highest honors: Donald N. Heirman, born and raised here
The IEEE EMC Society's Richard R. Stoddart Award for outstanding contributions came in 1995, and the IEEE made him a Life Fellow.
Mishawaka
- 1995Zimmer's ground, Moran Addition, and the ordinance in the descriptions
The town's largest neighborhood carries its own annexation record in its deeds: parcels in Moran Addition — the roster's largest at 44 — carry in their legal descriptions the notation "Annexed Per Ord 2/28/95," and the five parcels of Nutlawn Addition carry the same ordinance date: the town's annexation of 28 February…
Osceola
- 1995The annexation course, as closing synthesis
Town of Osceola litigation tested, told whole in Government; the annexation ordinance of 28 February 1995 that the Moran and Nutlawn parcels carry in their own descriptions, this section's instrument find; and the longer census-frame movement Population prints…
Osceola
- 1995–1998The hospital sales that became foundations — and an eight-million-dollar gift to a high school
When Lutheran Hospital was sold in 1995, the proceeds formed The Lutheran Foundation, which by its own history has disbursed more than 162 million dollars to faith and health causes across a ten-county area and still held assets above 200 million dollars in 2016.
Fort Wayne
- 1995–2012The South Bend years: the attendance that never came
The staff line across the era is short: Rick Walls directed the Hall before moving to head the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame; Lisa Malin, who had been with the Hall since it opened in South Bend in 1995, was named executive director in January 2008 after five months as interim director…
South Bend
- 1995–2012The Enshrinement Festival: the city's football weekend
The 2005 festival was billed as the eleventh annual, which counts the series from 1995, the Hall's opening summer.
South Bend
- 1995–2012The former College Football Hall of Fame building — fame's forwarding address
The fame frame: For seventeen years, from its opening in August 1995 to its last afternoon on the last day of 2012, the building at 111 South St. Joseph Street in downtown South Bend simply was the College Football Hall of Fame to the entire country…
South Bend
- 1995–todayThe modern layer — health software, geothermal, and water
Medical Informatics Engineering was formed in Fort Wayne in 1995 by Doug Horner to move medical information securely, and launched the MedWeb, one of the nation's first health information exchanges…
Fort Wayne
- 1995–todayAndrea Russett: the teenager the radio station hired
The Fort Wayne start: Andrea Rose Russett was born in Fort Wayne on 27 June 1995, to Mark and Jacqui Russett, both graphic designers, and attended Bishop Dwenger High School until her junior year.
Fort Wayne
- 1995–todayThe Military Honor Park at the airport
A dream of a few, 1995: The county's newest memorial ground is its largest, and it grew the other way from the courthouse monument: not by appropriation but by accretion.
South Bend
- 1995–todayHorizon Elementary School
Horizon opened in the fall of 1995 on a campus built for two schools at once: the district's own history calls it "a beautiful, state-of-the-art facility" and fixes its founding fact — Horizon shares a thirty-seven-acre campus on Brummitt Road with Discovery Middle School, which was completed the following summer…
Granger
- 1995–todayThe Connecticut rivalry
The shape: The rivalry began with Notre Dame's arrival in the Big East in 1995 and outlasted the league that made it: fifty-seven meetings through 2025–26, Connecticut ahead 39–18 in the university's series accounting.
Notre Dame
- 1996In the Company of Men (1997): the landmark
Archer's Atlantis Entertainment, working from East Coliseum Boulevard, raised the money and crewed the picture locally; Archer later recalled that the whole enterprise began at a meeting in the Acme Bar & Grill in the spring of 1996.
Fort Wayne
- 1996Salomon Farm, Dupont Road and the northwest connectors
Salomon Farm Park, at 817 West Dupont Road, became a city park in 1996 on the donated Salomon family farm.
Fort Wayne
- 1996First presences on the web, as the archive dates them
The University of Notre Dame's nd.edu was captured on November 12, 1996, and Tire Rack's commercial site six days later, on November 18, 1996 — the university and the tire retailer are, on the surviving record, the city's twin first presences on the web.
South Bend
- 1996Danny Pinter: Adams High School to the Colts' Line
Daniel James Pinter was born June 19, 1996, in South Bend, "I've lived here my whole life, I have played football here my whole life," as he put it on draft day — and played at John Adams High School, a two-time All-State selection as a tight end and defender.
South Bend
- 1996The schools' foundations in succession, and the county's scholarship endowment
It was established in 1996 as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organisation dedicated to supporting the educational mission of the Penn-Harris-Madison schools — the fifteen schools, seven of them on Granger ground or serving it whole, whose course is this build's Schools section.
Granger
- 1996The planning line: the town's first zoning act, and the comprehensive plan that now binds this ground
The town's first documented zoning act is an act of joining: by Ordinance No. 15-1996, adopted 16 December 1996, Osceola adopted its zoning into the St. Joseph County system — the act Government prints, and the earliest zoning instrument for the town that any record in this build reaches.
Osceola
- 1996–1997The first Final Four, 1997
The team: The 1996–97 Irish went 31–7 behind two seniors who between them rewrote the record book on their way out: Beth Morgan, the wing from Bloomington, Indiana, and Katryna Gaither, the post player whose 20.4 points a game that season set a school record.
Notre Dame
- 1996–2007Iraq and the armor crisis
The M1114 itself — factory-armored, in limited production at Mishawaka since 1996 — was the vehicle at the center of the surge, and the reference history records that AM General diverted the majority of its manufacturing power to producing the armored vehicles.
Mishawaka
- 1996–2011Robert Bosch in South Bend — the brake works' second successor line
Bendix passed to Allied in 1983 and into AlliedSignal, and in 1996 Robert Bosch GmbH acquired AlliedSignal's global brake operations entire, the purchase through which Bosch entered the foundation-brake sector in earnest.
South Bend
- 1996–2025The Buildings' Honors
The pointer: The roll as the Schools section prints it: Prairie Vista Elementary, National Blue Ribbon School in 1996-97 and again in 2015, the second time as an Exemplary High Performing School in the U.S. Department of Education's classification…
Granger
- 1996–2026Purdue Fort Wayne's other seven-figure gifts: music, entrepreneurship, scholarships — and a naming gift whose amount was never published
A decade earlier, in 1996, the estate of Carlisle and Georgia Wilbur gave 1.7 million dollars for scholarships — at the time among the largest estate gifts in the university's record.
Fort Wayne
- 1996–2026The school teams on the ground: Archers, Knights, and Knights
Three school programs have played on Granger ground, and the leg takes them in the brief's order — the public middle school at pointer size, the parish school and the closed Christian school at documented size: Discovery Middle School, the CDP's only middle school (opened 1996…
Granger
- 1996–2026The school stage: Discovery's bands and the concert calendar
Discovery Middle School, opened on Brummitt Road in 1996 and carried whole in the Schools section, was built with soundproof music practice rooms in its original plant, and its own program list runs to performing fine arts whole: band, orchestra, chorus, and piano, with multiple band, chorus, theater, and visual-arts…
Granger
- 1996–todayDiscovery Middle School: the CDP's only middle school
Discovery is the middle school the whole eastern half of Granger funnels through: completed in the summer of 1996 on the Brummitt Road campus it shares with Horizon Elementary, it welcomed its first student body for the 1996-97 school year, and it serves the families of Mary Frank, Horizon, and Northpoint elementary schools…
Granger
- 1997The modern layer: farms inside the city, and the shrinking map
Outward, the map keeps thinning: the censuses printed at the head of this section give the dated arithmetic — 65 percent of the county's land in farm uses in 1997, 281,635 acres in farms in 2017, and the 2022 count of 329,722 acres stated on its own terms…
Fort Wayne
- 1997Beverly Parker · the case that is not on the board
On the night of August 23, 1997, she was killed in her own home. Her son, who had been out at an all-night skating party, came home in the early morning hours and found her.
Fort Wayne
- 1997American Reel (1999): Archer directs
In the spring of 1997 financiers brought him a script called American Reel , written by Junior Burke and Scott Fivelson, with David Carradine and Ally Sheedy attached.
Fort Wayne
- 1997Leif O'Connell · the random shootings of February 1997
On 28 January 1997 O'Connell, with Jerred Kahlenbeck, had visited the Midwest Gun Exchange in South Bend, where O'Connell made a deposit on a Lorcin .38 semi-automatic pistol; he purchased the gun on 11 February.
South Bend
- 1997The city's own key: the documented presentations
The earliest documented here is a physician's: Dr. George B. Plain received the Key to the City in 1997, and at the community dinner marking his retirement the mayors and the county gave him the keys of South Bend, Mishawaka, and St. Joseph County together, with Mayor Stephen Luecke proclaiming 3 April 2001 as Dr. George B. Plain Day.
South Bend
- 1997–1988The distinctions · multiple murders that were not a series
Joseph Corcoran was born in Fort Wayne in 1975, and on July 26, 1997, in the Fort Wayne house he shared with his sister, he shot and killed four men: his brother James Corcoran, his sister's fiancé Robert Scott Turner, and Timothy Bricker and Douglas Stillwell.
Fort Wayne
- 1997–1998State Road 933: Coined April 1998, and Why
On 25 April 1997 AASHTO approved truncating U.S. 33 to U.S. 20 in Elkhart, on a joint request of the Michigan and Indiana departments of transportation; signage was changed a year later, in April 1998 (the operative truncation date in the road record is 5 April 1998).
Roseland
- 1997–1999Ronald Kahlenbeck's sentence — settled from the appellate opinion
The banked item: The Murders file carries the February 1997 west-side shootings — five people shot between February 12 and 26, one fatally — and Kahlenbeck's conviction, with the sentence's exact terms held for the appellate opinion.
South Bend
- 1997–2000The documentary of the closing, and the production company
The closing, with its date conflict printed whole: the former Ball Band plant ceased operations in 1997.
Mishawaka
- 1997–2000The road between — Riley arrives, 1997–2000
The 1998 run: The 1997–98 team reached the Sweet Sixteen the hard way, winning at top-seeded Texas Tech in Lubbock before losing to Louisiana Tech.
Notre Dame
- 1997–2004The tax fight: the 1997 petition war and the 2001 acceptance that built the branch
The campaign stands, whole, in the banked Arts file's article "The culture fights: the library war and a schoolhouse roof," drawn from the South Bend Tribune's file: the 1997 citizen petition, the counter-petition, the named opponents, the signature margin, and the 2001 acceptance.
Granger
- 1997–2009The long drought — Davie, Willingham, Weis, 1997–2009
Davie: Bob Davie, a Holtz assistant, coached 1997–2001 and went 35–25. Willingham: Tyrone Willingham coached 2002–04 and went 21–15, dismissed after three seasons.
Notre Dame
- 1997–2012Stephen J. Luecke: fifteen years
When Kernan resigned in January 1997, the vacancy was filled under the party-caucus law by the votes of the city's Democratic precinct committeemen; Luecke, Kernan's endorsed candidate, was chosen unanimously and took office on 3 January 1997…
South Bend
- 1997–2019Anna Rohrer — two national championships out of Mishawaka High
The high school record: Anna Rohrer was born 24 February 1997 in Mishawaka. Running for Mishawaka High she won the Foot Locker national cross country championship twice — in 2012 in 17:25 and in 2014 in 17:13 — and was the Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year for 2014–15.
Mishawaka
- 1997–2022The note-passer series: the corridor's linked series, and the branch named Osceola
The 1997–98 gang prints at index strength with its trap labelled: the South Bend Tribune's indexed abstracts (1999) record a Benton Harbor man sentenced to nearly 111 years as ringleader of a gang that robbed four banks "in Elkhart and Osceola" in 1997 and 1998.
Osceola
- 1997–2026Allen County Post 499 · the Hillegas Road post
Its bingo operation was one of the state's large ones: the state's 1997 charity-gaming report credits Post 499 with $1,981,125 in bingo gross receipts.
Fort Wayne
- 1997–2026The Other Districts — the Register's Survey of the Neighborhoods
The St. Casimir Parish Historic District, listed 16 January 1997, takes in the Polish parish complex on the southwest side — church, school and rectory ground bounded by Arnold and West Sample streets and the former Conrail tracks; the congregations are Religion's, the district as a built ensemble is the register's.
South Bend
- 1997–2026The culture fights: the library war, and a schoolhouse roof
In 1997 a citizen petition sought to carry Harris Township into the St. Joseph County Public Library system — a branch within two to five years, fifteen thousand square feet, at a proposed tax rate of sixty-seven cents.
Granger
- 1997–todayNorth Liberty Christian School: K–6 in the Church's Building Since 1997
The town's one private school has run kindergarten through sixth grade since August 1997 inside the North Liberty Church of Christ, and counts 54 students in 2026–27.
North Liberty
- 1998The Rumble in Fort Wayne
The indoor tradition, revived: When the Coliseum's Exposition Center opened in 1998, Ohio concert promoter Tony Barhorst and race promoter Jack Calabrase — the city's proclamation names both as the Rumble's founders…
Fort Wayne
- 1998St. Augustine Lutheran Church: a pan-African congregation
St. Augustine Lutheran Church was founded in 1998 by an African student at the city's Lutheran seminary, expressly to serve the African refugees then arriving in Fort Wayne; it affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 2001.
Fort Wayne
- 1998Niko Kavadas: The Newest Name on the Register
Nikolos Siade Kavadas was born October 27, 1998, in South Bend, grew up in Granger, and went to Penn High School — which stands in Mishawaka, and is printed as Mishawaka's here as everywhere in this history.
South Bend
- 1998Kennedy's Kitchen and the Irish session scene
Kennedy's Kitchen, a seven-musician traditional Irish band led by joHn Kennedy — the styling is his — has been based in South Bend since 1998.
South Bend
- 1998The Library's Museum: The Heritage Room
When the Mishawaka-Penn Public Library expanded into the former post office and police station in 1998, the added space opened as the Heritage Center: genealogy records, digital archives, yearbooks, microfilm, and historical newspapers under one roof, behind the post office's original exterior doors.
Mishawaka
- 1998The state road that exists because the county said no, twice
When INDOT removed US 33 north of US 20 in April 1998, the old road was to pass to local jurisdiction. Elkhart County's governments accepted theirs.
Mishawaka
- 1998The marker: 71.1998.1
The state marked the settlement in 1998, Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.1998.1. It stands at the northwestern corner of the junction of State Road 4 (Pierce Road) and Mulberry Road, east of Potato Creek State Park, in Union Township — the settlement section's southern and eastern bounds meeting at its corner.
Lakeville
- 1998The university pipeline: Gigot, McCloskey, Innovation Park, the IDEA Center
The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship was founded in 1998 in the Mendoza College of Business; its founder, Gary Gigot, dates the awakening a year earlier — "Entrepreneurship came into focus at Notre Dame in 1997.
Notre Dame
- 1998–2002The appellate line of 1998–99 · Lee, Warner and Alkhalidi
Three South Bend cases of 1998 and 1999 reached the Indiana Supreme Court and stand affirmed there, and they are entered together, at the size their record carries.
South Bend
- 1998–2007The Euclid Quartet at IUSB
The city's resident quartet: The Euclid Quartet was formed in Cleveland in 1998 — a graduate quartet out of Kent State, named for Cleveland's Euclid Avenue — and since 2007 it has been the faculty string quartet-in-residence at Indiana University South Bend, where its members teach and coach chamber music at the Raclin School of the Arts.
South Bend
- 1998–2026The genealogy and history collection: the Main's Heritage Room, and what the branch holds
The room's course: The Heritage Center opened in 1998, in the expanded downtown building's former post-office and police space, holding the genealogy records, digital archives, yearbooks, microfilm and historical newspapers of the Local & Family History collection, on limited hours.
Granger
- 1998–2026Novelists, graded by exact tie, in the open
Born there — Susan Choi (born January 28, 1969, in South Bend; lived in the city until age nine, then Houston), carried here by her bibliography as the checklist requires: The Foreign Student (1998), American Woman (2003), A Person of Interest (2008), My Education (2013), Trust Exercise (2019…
Granger
- 1998–todayThe county prosecutors
Michael Barnes held the office through 1998. Chris Toth defeated him that year and was prosecutor from 1999 to 2002.
South Bend
- 1998–todayNorthpoint Elementary School
Northpoint opened in August 1998 as the building wave's last and northernmost school, and outgrew itself in three years: the district's own history page records the opening and the immediate sequel…
Granger
- 1999Just Neighbors: the interfaith shelter
In 1999 local congregations created the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Fort Wayne, a chapter of the national model: homeless families sleep overnight in rotating local churches — a different congregation each week providing the rooms, the meals and the volunteers — and spend their days at a central day centre downtown.
Fort Wayne
- 1999The micro-budget decades: horror in a dying cinema, and the $11 opening
The genealogical society's list, drawn from IMDb location data, also places parts of The Freak (1999) in Fort Wayne, on a shoot that ranged across Spencerville, Cedar Canyon, Garrett, Auburn and Waterloo; nothing further about it reached print in the sources this record could reach.
Fort Wayne
- 1999The GM chapter I: General Motors buys the brand
The announcement: In June 1999 General Motors and AM General announced their intention: GM would take the Hummer name into its brand empire, and AM General would build the vehicles.
Mishawaka
- 1999The alligator that was a turtle
The record's answer is a turtle, in Michigan, in 1999. The searches ran across the press record and the federal scientific record: no alligator, caiman or escaped exotic reptile on Mishawaka ground — in the river, in a pond, in a sewer, in a yard — appears in any source reached.
Mishawaka
- 1999The law written for a category of one
The ordinance: In 1999 the Mishawaka Common Council, setting out against what it deemed the harmful secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses, approved Ordinance No. 44-15, codified as Chapter 125 of the city code — a licensing and regulatory scheme for every sexually oriented business in the city.
Mishawaka
- 1999Newton Park's Paved Mile and Culp Park's Ground — the Town's Only Walks
Newton Park, opened in 1999 by Bob and Joyce Newton at 801 N Michigan Street (one 2026 listing prints 701; the variance stands whole), holds one mile of paved walking path across its forty acres, held by Newton Park Inc; the governing rule of that park is a walking rule — "NO Bikes, Skateboards, or In-Line Skating."
Lakeville
- 1999–2023DaMarcus Beasley: four World Cups out of South Side
The rise: At the 1999 Under-17 World Cup in New Zealand, Beasley won the Silver Ball as the tournament's second best player, behind his teammate Landon Donovan, and turned professional with the Chicago Fire.
Fort Wayne
- 1999–2024What is headquartered here now
Tower and Old National: The one attempt to rebuild a hometown bank in the old tower came from local money: in 1999 John Tippmann Sr., who had acquired and refurbished the Lincoln Bank Tower, formed Tower Bank there with a group of Fort Wayne investors.
Fort Wayne
- 1999–todayThe Leighton fortune as a giving institution: the award, the hospital names, and a foundation of 150 million
The award endowment: In 1999 Judd and Mary Morris Leighton and the Leighton-Oare Foundation gave 2.1 million dollars to the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County to create the Leighton Award for Nonprofit Excellence — an endowed award, carrying a 100,000 dollar challenge grant, for the county's outstanding charity…
South Bend
- 1999–todayThe villa course: maintenance-free plats inside the big plats
The villa was Granger's one dense form: the Tribune's "The family villa" (1999) marks the type's arrival in the record — maintenance-free villa developments marketed to buyers trading a house and a yard for a smaller footprint and an association's services: in Granger, the Villas at Woods Trail (developed by Robert…
Granger
- 1999–todayNDnano and MIND — the nanoelectronics decade
The centers: Notre Dame's Center for Nano Science and Technology — NDnano — was established in 1999.
Notre Dame
- 2010sThe 2000s additions: infill between the ring and the wave
The county file's own instrument dates fix several of them: Wild Wing Plantation in Clay (33 parcels; its paper carries a new-plat instrument of 2 July 1999), Horizons Edge Phase One in Harris (35 parcels; new plat per instrument of 6 January 2000), Gumwood Crossing (18 parcels…
Granger