Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1990s
29 dated events in 1990s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 29 dated mentions
1990s
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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).
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.