Mishawaka, Indiana · 21st century
2020s
76 dated events in 2020s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
21st century 76 dated mentions
2020s
- 2020The rehabilitation hospital at Edison Lakes, 2020
A third hospital on the Edison Lakes ground: In 2020 Edison Lakes gained its third inpatient institution, distinct from both neighbors and easily confused with one of them.
- 2020The present state of the count
The last word belongs to the present, stated at the record's strength and no stronger: Mishawaka's counted population at the census of 1 April 2020 was 51,063 — the largest count in the city's history, the eighteenth-largest among Indiana's cities, 18.7 percent of its county and 74.3 percent of its township.
- 2020July 4, 2020: the Main Street bridge protest
The modern record reached carries one Mishawaka unrest datum, and it is dated and sourced: on 4 July 2020, in the summer of the George Floyd protests, about thirty people protested at the Main Street bridge, and a car drove through the protesters, dragging one of them fifty feet and injuring that person.
- 2020COVID-19 (ii): the health officer's orders, in sequence
Three orders, dated, on the officer's own authority: Public Health Order 1-2020 was issued 3 May 2020 by Dr. Robert M. Einterz, under Indiana Code 16-20-1 and 16-41-9, effective 4 May 2020 at 11:59 p.m. and running to 4 July 2020.
- 2020The textbook-fee suits of 2020, and the end of the fee
The fees were the district's lawful revenue and the parents' standing grievance for decades; the controversy of 2020 is about what the district did to collect them.
- 2020–2021COVID-19 (i): the county's course and toll, from the official record
The toll, as the county published it, dated at each step: St. Joseph County's first confirmed COVID-19 death came on 26 March 2020 — a man in his eighties with severe comorbidities, unnamed in the department's release, as every case in this article is a count and not a name; the county then stood at 28 confirmed cases.
- 2020–2022Electric Last Mile: the plant builds again, briefly
The successor: Electric Last Mile Solutions was formed in 2020 by James Taylor — the former SF Motors chief executive — and Jason Luo, and carved its business out of the SF Motors/Sokon operation by agreements of September 2020.
- 2020–2022COVID-19 (iii): the vaccination campaign — county course, Mishawaka seats, and the first-dose gap
The state's first doses did not land here: Indiana's first COVID-19 vaccinations were given on 14 December 2020 at five pilot hospitals — Parkview in Fort Wayne, Clark Memorial in Jeffersonville, Deaconess in Evansville, IU Methodist in Indianapolis and Community Hospital in Munster…
- 2020–2026The newest arrivals
The newest Mishawaka is counted before it is named: the American Community Survey 2020–2024 counts foreign-born residents at 7.0 percent of the city (Census Bureau QuickFacts), in a city whose 2020 census counted American Indian and Alaska Native residents at 0.1 percent, Asian residents alone at 1,240 (2.4 percent…
- 2021A parking lot full of witnesses · Victor Kyle Jr.
Around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 20, 2021, at the close of a large gathering at the Heavenly Goat Brewing Company at Heritage Square, on the city's north side, gunfire broke out in the parking lots.
- 2022The boundary case: Amanda Fox's award belongs to Granger's page
The boundary: The same White House release of 8 February 2022 carries a third Penn-Harris-Madison name, and this ledger prints her at boundary strength only, because the granting record and the district record point at two different schools.
- 2022The Milken Educator Award: Ryan Towner, a Mishawaka principal
The honor: The Milken Educator Award — the Milken Family Foundation's national award, given since 1987 to early-to-mid-career educators for what they have achieved and for the promise of what they will do, and famous for arriving unannounced at a school assembly with a $25,000 check — came to Mishawaka on 16 March 2022.
- 2022–2025Mullen, and the plant passes to GEM
The purchase: On 30 November 2022 Mullen Automotive acquired the ELMS assets out of the liquidation — the Mishawaka factory, the intellectual property, and the inventory — for $105 million in cash, and announced the plant as a fit for its Mullen FIVE and Bollinger programs.
- 2022–2026Marian basketball — one final, and a pipeline unlike any in the state
The final: The IHSAA Boys Basketball Records Book gives Marian a single State Finals appearance: the Class 3A final of 2022, lost to Beech Grove 53–43.
- 2023The other rivalry — Mishawaka against Marian
The count: The city's two football programs meet as the Backyard Brawl's smaller sibling: the South Bend Tribune's August 2023 accounting had Mishawaka leading the all-time series with Marian 18–6, with Marian's most recent win to that date coming on the road in 2020.
- 2023The JLTV recompete: the successor's contract
The award: On 9 February 2023 the Army awarded AM General the follow-on production contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle — the armored truck developed to succeed the Humvee in the roles the Iraq armor crisis had exposed.
- 2023Bank Robberies as Their Own Treatment — the Blank Page, the Test, and the Modern Federal Cases
He was sentenced on 11 July 2023 by Judge Damon R. Leichty to 228 months in prison — 144 months on the robbery counts, served concurrently, and a consecutive 84 months on the firearm count as 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) requires — with three years of supervised release and $5,999 in restitution.
- 2023The Museum on Main Street: Opened March 12, 2023
The grand opening, when it came, was held on March 12, 2023 — the date carried in the Mishawaka High School alumni newsletter of that month, which describes "large exhibits of churches, businesses, historic landmarks, famous Mishawakans, schools, military heritage and a working train, owned by the founder of the museum."
- 20232023: the sculpture park and the coach — the ledger's biggest year
Five sculptures at Ironworks Plaza: On 17 June 2023 the city's Ironworks Plaza — the ice rink, amphitheater and event ground built into Beutter Riverfront Park on the old industrial riverfront…
- 2023The valley's history creator: Round the Bend Now and Then, seated across the river
The show: the creator who documents Mishawaka most, in any medium, is Matt Emery, "local history nerd" by his own billing, whose Round the Bend Now and Then has since April 2023 told "the story of South Bend and Mishawaka" through interviews with historians, officials, business owners and residents…
- 2023–2026Cotton Mouf: the troupe
The comedy side only: the one nationally documented comedy act this city has produced in the platform age is a puppet troupe — Cotton Mouf, four performers working four puppets, Duke, G Ball, J Money and Rico, through short improvised-feeling sketches about childhood, barbershops, mothers and money, placed in…
- 2023–todayThe youth council as art commission: The Mish and Project Shoe City
In March 2023 the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority launched a crowdfunding campaign, under its CreatINg Places / My Community, My Vision program with Patronicity, for The Mish…
- 2024The City Hall plaque of 2024, and the two rolls that do not agree
The memorial: In November 2024 the city installed in the lobby of Mishawaka City Hall an exhibit honoring Mishawaka's Civil War soldiers, at its center a wooden memorial made by Artworks Sign Company of Mishawaka, headed "IN MEMORIAM" and inscribed: "We pay reverent tribute to these soldiers of Mishawaka who made the…
- 2024The Present Tenants: Coyotes in the Meeting Room, a Buck on Main Street
The meeting is documented at press strength: on 12 November 2024, about forty Mishawaka residents met with city officials about coyotes — a meeting carried in the press by Councilman Matt Mammolenti, who told WNDU he had received many calls from constituents concerned about coyotes coming closer to homes, with small…
- 2024The drone winter, 2024–25
The national episode: In November and December 2024 the sighting report changed its object: thousands of reports of large drones at night, beginning over New Jersey and spreading nationally, drew the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the FAA and the Defense Department into a joint statement on 16 December 2024…
- 2025One seat to Elkhart again: Route 30 and the CONNECT redesign, 2025
The change: On 2 June 2025 the interurban's course came back as a bus.
- 2025The present tense: the ground changes hands again
Mishawaka's factory ground supplied the setting twice in 2025, and the dated record is printed here at the size it carries.
- 2025A second station in the building: WSJV joins WSBT, 2025
The new arrival: in 2025 Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased WSJV (channel 28), the Elkhart-licensed station that had signed on in March 1954 as South Bend's second television outlet, and the station took its place beside WSBT as a sister operation sharing the Mishawaka studios.
- 2025The employers, as the lists state them
The most recent list: The most recent regional list is the Anderson Economic Group's 2025 market snapshot of the South Bend–Mishawaka region (employment data as of December 2025), which names the region's employers "notable for number employed" without publishing counts: 1st Source Bank, AM General, Beacon Health…
- 2025–2026The JLTV's hard second act, and the Humvee's new money
The Army changes its mind: In 2025, under the Army Transformation Initiative, the Army moved to stop buying what it called obsolete capabilities — the JLTV and the Humvee among them; an April 2025 memorandum from the Secretary of Defense ending new Humvee procurement is reported in company-contact summaries, at that strength.
- 2025–2026The city as it presents itself
The administration's phrase: The Wood administration's own name for its method is the Mishawaka Way, defined in the mayor's 2025 State of the City address as "a promise to work together with integrity and ingenuity to ensure that every decision made enhances the quality of life in the city"…
- 2026The present state: the dealer row, November 2026
The tractor trade stands documented on Mishawaka ground today at four points, each verified in November 2026. GreenMark Equipment , the John Deere dealer, stands at 60001 Elm Road.
- 2026The hospital map as it stands
The system's Elm Road campus and its Rehabilitation Institute continue on the south side; the veterans' clinic serves on Trinity Place; the hospice receives on the river at Central Park; the federally qualified HealthLinc keeps a Mishawaka site on the state's list, at the anchor size that listing gives it; and Beacon…
- 2026The government today
The present government, verified at this writing: Mishawaka is governed in November 2026 by Mayor Dave Wood, Republican, in office since September 7, 2010 — sixteen years…
- 2026The government as it stands
The officers: Mishawaka's government, verified against the city's records in November 2026, is: Mayor Dave Wood, Republican, in office since 7 September 2010 and counted the city's twenty-first mayor; a Common Council of nine…
- 2026The next elections, dated: the cycle completed to 2027
The dates: The Indiana Election Division's official 2027 election calendar, published by the Secretary of State and reflecting Indiana law as of August 2026, fixes the two days.
- 2026The failure test — Mishawaka against the FDIC list
The list's Indiana entries are four, all elsewhere: Irwin Union Bank and Trust Company of Columbus (18 September 2009), Integra Bank, National Association, of Evansville (29 July 2011), SCB Bank of Shelbyville (10 February 2012), and Kentland Federal Savings and Loan Association (10 July 2026).
- 2026The works today
What Mishawaka builds: As of November 2026 the Mishawaka Manufacturing Campus — 96 acres on McKinley Highway, with its test track — builds two vehicles.
- 2026The present state: what vehicle manufacture stands on Mishawaka ground
The contract's course, the campus's employment — about 400 UAW Local 5 members on the union's 2025 contract record — and the JLTV A2 line itself stand in the AM General section…
- 2026The present state — November 2026
The commercial record stands in the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Data Collection, the providers' own filings of June 2026 as published that October: two fiber providers serve the city…
- 2026Freight today: three railroads
In 2026 the road proposed to restore the western connection — a new link between its Mishawaka end and Canadian National, reported as the Capital Avenue rail line expansion project.
- 2026The present Mishawaka network, verified November 2026 — and the cuts of 2026
The network as it stands: Transpo's own published service for the 2026-27 school year names the regular fixed routes serving Mishawaka, all of them open to the public: Route 30, South Bend/Mishawaka/Elkhart; Route 1, Madison/Mishawaka — the McKinley line's descendant; Route 11, Southside Mishawaka…
- 2026The state of the air ground, November 2026
The regional airport is South Bend International — South Bend's field, its authority the county's, its route map, enplanement records, and name line carried whole in the South Bend build and verified there at the same November 2026 date…
- 2026The present map, November 2026: what verifies and what does not
The honest headline is a negative: no single city-published roster of Mishawaka's neighborhoods or neighborhood associations was verified in November 2026.
- 2026The current officeholder set, person by person: November 2026
Lou Ann Hazen , District 3 — so the 2026 roster verified from the council minutes names her; the variance on this seat is printed whole in the next paragraph.
- 2026The present chiefs — November 2026, at one-line strength
The lines: AM General (South Bend seat, Mishawaka works) — John Chadbourne, president and chief executive officer, effective 27 March 2026, on the company's release.
- 2026The present state: Mishawaka's women in public office, November 2026
The city: the mayor's office Margaret Prickett held for sixteen years is held in 2026 by Dave Wood, mayor since 7 September 2010.
- 2026The Tivoli gets its marker, 2026
On May 21, 2026 — the 101st anniversary of the Tivoli Theatre's opening night — the city's Historic Preservation Commission installed a historical marker at 208 North Main Street, the fourteenth in the city's series, on the application Pete De Kever, the city's historian, had filed on September 30, 2023.
- 2026The reserve and auxiliary test: nothing based here
No Junior ROTC unit is listed for Mishawaka High School or for Penn High School in the sources searched in November 2026 — where South Bend's schools carry the county's Junior ROTC programs, Mishawaka's two high schools carry none that the record reached.
- 2026Recruiting: the uniformed presence the city actually has
One address, five listings: The standing military presence on Mishawaka ground in November 2026 is a recruiting row.
- 2026The camps test: no camp, no training ground
Mishawaka was tested for the same footprint, by name and by type: searches run in November 2026 for a camp, encampment, training ground, rendezvous, induction or separation center, and prisoner-of-war or internment site on Mishawaka ground returned nothing military at all…
- 2026The organizations as they stand
The roll, checked: In November 2026 Mishawaka's veterans' organizations stand as follows, each verified against its own or its banner's current record.
- 2026The two departments as they stand, November 2026
Its chief is Joshua Jester, the twenty-first, appointed 3 February 2026.
- 2026The Practice as It Stands, November 2026
The hospital: Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center stands on Holy Cross Parkway under Indiana license 25-005012-1, expiring 31 December 2026, its set-up beds counted at 294 in the state's 2025 consumer report against the 254 of its opening program and the 253 of the federal cost-report directory…
- 2026The system as it stands: November 2026
The beds: inpatient psychiatry stands on Mishawaka ground at the Medical Behavioral Hospital, 1625 East Jefferson Boulevard, the for-profit NeuroPsychiatric Hospitals house of some thirty beds of record, licensed and Medicare-certified in the state's current list…
- 2026The closing ledger: what the money test did not find
That is the whole money-fight record of Mishawaka as the official record gives it in November 2026 — smaller than the pattern cities', and printed at its size, which is what the leg's discipline is for.
- 2026The present state — November 2026
The football team finished 6–4 in 2026, its season ending in a first-round sectional loss at Northridge, 57–26, on 23 October 2026 — the program's first first-round exit since 2006 — a year after a 10–2 season and an unbeaten conference championship.
- 2026The seated test: no city, state or national hall — and the search shown
The test: The baseline asks every city first whether a hall of fame is seated in it, and the question was put to Mishawaka at full strength: a civic hall, a state hall keeping its seat here, a national hall, an industry or ethnic hall with a Mishawaka address, at any date from the city's founding to November 2026.
- 2026The Toronto test: the Hockey Hall of Fame's honoured members
The search: The Hockey Hall of Fame's honoured membership stood, at the test date, at 455 names: 319 players (fifteen of them women), 120 builders and 16 on-ice officials, the classes running from 1945 to the Class of 2026…
- 2026Mishawaka in November 2026
The only animals kept for the public anywhere in the city are seasonal and small, and attested at visitors' strength only: guests at Legend Park, the fall scream park on McKinley Highway, describe a petting zoo among its family attractions…
- 2026The system standing: November 2026
The form: The Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library is the public library district of the City of Mishawaka and Penn and Harris townships, governed by a seven-member Board of Trustees appointed by the two school corporations' boards, the County Council and the County Commissioners, directed in November 2026 by…
- 2026Beyond books: makerspaces, streamed pictures, books by mail, and the talking-book route
The maker rooms: The library's published list of its own services carries, beside public computers and the online collections, makerspaces — working rooms in the system's buildings where the programming is making: the library's June 2023 newsletter runs a Summer Reading Challenge kickoff whose stations include "Donut…
- 2026The Kills That Are Not in the Record, and the Pollution Record That Is
And the reach carries the modern era's signature arrival on the state's own list: the Indiana DNR's official list of zebra mussel waters, updated 12 January 2026, enters St. Joseph County's water as the St. Joseph River…
- 2026The present state: the ledger as it stands, November 2026
What the record does not hold: The city's own published record, searched in November 2026, carries its art project by project — the Shoe City page is a model of the kind…
- 2026The present state: what comedy stands on Mishawaka ground
The puppet troupe of the pointer entry was still posting new sketches through 2026.
- 2026The present trade
The trade at street level now: The studio trade survives in Mishawaka at listings' strength, checked November 2026: Tirotta Photo, 315 Edgewater Drive — "full service commercial and advertising photography," listed active; Stephen Hill Photography, 915 Washington Avenue, listed active…
- 2026The present state, verified November 2026
Mishawaka in November 2026 has a weekly of its own, a daily from across the river, and its valley's television news made inside its own limits.
- 2026State Honors
When the federal National Blue Ribbon Schools program wound down, Indiana created its own Indiana Blue Ribbon Schools designation, and the Indiana Department of Education's 2026 cohort, announced in October 2026, includes Fred J. Hums Elementary School of the School City of Mishawaka.
- 2026The present state
Clothing retail in the Mishawaka of November 2026 is the mall and the corridor, as this history's Malls section verifies: University Park Mall stands with Macy's and JCPenney as its anchors and 137 stores on its owner's listing, and the Grape Road corridor carries the big-box clothing trade, a Burlington store among it.
- 2026The map of November 2026: what the record leaves standing
The march's 2026 turnout, five hundred strong, is the record's answer.
- 2026The present map, 2026
The closing: The year's documented closing is a corridor chain's: the Hooters on Day Road, open since 2003 with a closure and reopening inside its course (2011–2015), shut permanently on March 3, 2026, in its parent company's bankruptcy — a dated end, printed first as this section's rule requires.
- 2026The standing facts
The frame: Mishawaka stands in November 2026 as a separately incorporated city of St. Joseph County, Indiana, lying wholly on Penn Township ground, its western line touching South Bend's eastern line…
- 2026The economy as published
The Bureau of Labor Statistics put the South Bend–Mishawaka metropolitan area's unemployment rate at 4.1 percent in September 2026, preliminary and not seasonally adjusted — the latest published month as this section closes, from the bureau's Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release…
- 2026What is being built: the river and the center
Its documented state in November 2026 is approvals, not completion: on 14 April 2026 the Mishawaka Plan Commission unanimously recommended the selective demolition the plan requires…
- 2026Mishawaka Today: How Current This Record Is
Verified to 10 November 2026, item by item as dated: That date is the whole method of this section, and its limit, and it is stated here in the file as the instruction of this section requires: every present-tense line above is as of November 2026 and says so.
- 2026The assumed case, tested: Aba Asante is Indiana's TikTok star — and West Lafayette's
A first-generation Ghanaian American, she went viral at sixteen with a lip-sync video — a possessed-chicken performance of Netta's "Toy," from which her tag "I'm not your toy" survives — that a 2026 profile in Her Agenda credits with more than 200 million views…