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- Sacred Heart — Three Parishes of the Name Churches & Religion
- Saint Joseph High School Schools & Colleges
- Saint Joseph High School — the Consolidated School Schools & Colleges
- Saint Mary's Cushwa-Leighton Library Libraries
- The saloon era: the named houses, the tied trade, and the keepers' own brewery Bars & Nightclubs
- The Saloon-Era Killings Crime History
- The Salvation Army and the Kroc Center Charities
- The Salvation Army, South Bend Corps Churches & Religion
- The Sanborn run: the city surveyed for fire, 1885–1949 Historic Maps
- SB150: the city throws itself a birthday, 2015 Events Calendar
- The Scholarship Foundation of St. Joseph County: the county's own scholarship endowment Foundations & Nonprofits
- The schoolhouse Hall: field trips, Stay In Bounds, and the Road Show Halls of Fame
- Schools & Colleges Section
- The schools clock, and the portrait's remaining dated lines South Bend Today
- The schools' current year South Bend Today
- The schools' foundations: from Public Education Foundation to the Education Alliance Foundations & Nonprofits
- Schuyler Colfax — Speaker of the House, Vice President of the United States Famous People
- Schuyler Colfax: the city's vice president Notable People
- The Scottish Rite Valley of South Bend and its cathedral Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- Scottsdale Mall: the city's own mall Malls & Shopping
- The screen map — what the cameras actually shot here Famous Landmarks
- The screenwriters born here — George Seaton and Larry Karaszewski Authors & Books
- The Seahorse Cabaret: Gloria Frankel's club Bars & Nightclubs
- The seats filled: who holds South Bend's offices Government
- The seats in succession: five downtown rooms and the Ireland Road branch License Branch
- The seats of government: rented rooms, Oliver's city hall, the tower, and the school building Government
- The second industrial age: the auto-parts conversion Industrial Revolution
- Second lives: cargo, maintenance, and the working field Airports
- The second rank — Howard's list and the directory's small headings Businesses
- The second rank, in brief — and the gaps this record names Founders & CEOs
- The Second St. Joseph Hotel, on Colfax Avenue Hotels
- The Second Strand — Lutheran, Evangelical, and the Independent Schools Schools & Colleges
- The Second Tier: Fortunes the Record Does Not Size Great Fortunes
- The second unwinding · 1985, 1989, 2011 Major Events
- The second war: trucks, engines, and the Weasel Studebaker
- The Second World War · the arsenal's city and the long roll Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The Second World War and Korea: the rolls that are not compiled War Heroes
- The Second World War's Army dead: the War Department's own figure is 430 Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The Second World War's dead · the record as the government printed it Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- "The second-largest Dyngus Day in America" — tested against Buffalo's counts Famous Stories & the Record
- The sector today: consolidation, endurance and the quiet exits Foundations & Nonprofits
- Sent away: Indianapolis, then Logansport, and the Westville traffic Mental Health Institutions
- Serial Killers Section
- The series in full: city and county, census by census, 1830–2020 Population
- The Service Clubs: Rotary, and the Kiwanis and Lions Record Charities
- The Shape of It, in Sum Great Fortunes
- The shape of the record · statute, scale, and the one death Bank Robberies
- The shape of the whole: an infrastructure city in the internet age Dot-Com Era
- The Shawn Fox records · 2011, 2013, and the winter of 2018–19 Bank Robberies
- The Shawn Fox releases — the age conflict verified, and a fourth release joins it (assembly flag 21) Crime History
- The shirt city: Wilson Brothers and the white dress shirt Fashion
- The Shooting of Eric Logan and Its Three Verdicts City Controversies
- Sibley Machine — the drill-press works that outlived its product Businesses
- The Silver Hawks, 1994–2014 Sports
- Simeri's Old Town Tap — and Dorbin's after it Bars & Nightclubs
- Sinai Synagogue: From Orthodox Founding to Conservative Congregation Churches & Religion
- "Since 1863" — the bank that is and is not the city's oldest charter Famous Stories & the Record
- The Singer cabinet works — the world's sewing-machine cabinets Businesses
- The Singer cabinet works: an invention record of manufacture, not of patents Inventors & Inventions
- The singing societies: the parish chorus first Music
- Sister M. Madeleva — the poet who built a college Authors & Books
- Sister Madeleva: the president of Saint Mary's Notable People
- The sisters: Holy Cross women and the work of the orders Women's History
- The Sixty-Eight Dollars and the Wagon That Ran Thirty-Three Years Folklore
- Skylar Diggins — Washington High School to the WNBA Famous People
- Skylar Diggins: Cross-Reference Sports Players
- The small fields around the county Airports
- The small museums — a hospital's, and a mother's Museums
- The smaller banners: DAV, the Marine Corps League, the Vietnam veterans Veterans
- The smallest patients: the neonatal unit and couplet care, 1981 Medical Advancements
- Smallpox, diphtheria, and scarlet fever: the record at its size Epidemics & Public Health
- Smart Streets and the Signal at South and Michigan City Controversies
- The Snowmobile Test, Answered Trails
- The Soap Box Derby: a national champion in 1960 Racing
- Soccer — the Lions and what followed Sports
- The society of 1867 — collecting before there was a museum Museums
- The Society Takes Over, 1 January 2014 Zoo
- "Soft Drinks," the largest trade in town Strange but True
- Soldiers before the city · the Revolution's and 1812's men who came later Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The Soldiers' Monument on the courthouse square Veterans
- Sophia Zen Center Churches & Religion
- Sorinsville: the priest as subdivider Neighborhoods
- Sources Section
- South Bend Bait Company — the Bass-Oreno Businesses
- South Bend Bait: one unpatented founder innovation over a shelf of bought paper Inventors & Inventions
- South Bend Blue Sox Section
- South Bend Brew Werks: the theater brewery, and the craft era's first house Wineries & Distilleries
- The South Bend Brewing Association: the keepers' own brewery, and the longest-lived of the three Wineries & Distilleries
- The South Bend Chilled Plow Company — the other plow works Businesses
- The South Bend Chocolate Company: the licensed chocolate house Food & Restaurants
- The South Bend Civic Theatre Theaters
- South Bend Civic Theatre: the children's stage Kids & Family Entertainment
- South Bend Code School: the Dotcom record's unworked lead, worked Dot-Com Era
- The South Bend Community Hall of Fame: carried in the halls National Honors
- The South Bend Community School Corporation Schools & Colleges
- South Bend Country Club Private Clubs
- The South Bend Farmer's Market Farms & Crops
- South Bend First Church of the Nazarene Churches & Religion
- South Bend Heritage Foundation Charities
- South Bend Heritage: preservation with its hands on Historic Preservation
- South Bend Heritage: the development corporation that outlasted the century Foundations & Nonprofits
- South Bend Lathe — one room, then the world's lathe Businesses
- South Bend Lathe: the licensed gearbox and the patented drive Inventors & Inventions
- South Bend Motor Speedway: built by its drivers Racing
- The South Bend Museum of Art — the institution Museums
- The South Bend Museum of Art: a schoolteacher's bequest Artists
- The South Bend National Bank — Charter No. 1739 Banks
- South Bend Robbers at Other Cities' Banks Bank Robberies
- The South Bend State Bank — the bank that liquidated itself while solvent Banks
- The South Bend Symphony: succession and the present state Music
- The South Bend Symphony: the Hames founding Music
- South Bend today The Story of South Bend
- South Bend Today Section
- South Bend Today: How Current This Record Is South Bend Today
- South Bend Toy Manufacturing Company — croquet sets and doll carriages Businesses
- The South Bend Tribune Sources
- The South Bend Tribune: five generations, three sales short of a century and a half Newspapers & Media
- The South Bend Watch "freezing process": a claim tested Inventors & Inventions
- South Bend Watch Company — a million watches in twenty-six years Businesses
- The South Bend Woolen Company — a Mishawaka house on South Bend ground Businesses
- The South Bend years: the attendance that never came Halls of Fame
- South Bend's Land Area, 2010 and 2020 The Story of South Bend
- South Bend's own: Eddie Talboom of Washington High School Halls of Fame
- South Bend, World Famed — the centennial volume (1922, for 1923) Sources
- South Michigan Street: the adult bars and the city's buyout Bars & Nightclubs
- The South Shore built: the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railroads
- The South Shore today, and the station question Railroads
- The Southeast neighborhood Neighborhoods
- The Spanish-American rosters read whole: one South Bend company, and two dead Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- The Spanish-American War · Studebaker’s Tigers and South Bend’s one company Wars, Unrest & Disasters
- Spatial repellents: from South Bend to a WHO recommendation, 2025 Medical Advancements
- Spicer Lake Nature Preserve Trails
- The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931) — set here, shot at Universal City Film
- The sporting lives: the pitcher who stayed, the teacher who became Wooden, and the born-here champions Notable People
- Sports Section
- Sports Players Section
- The Springbrook wreck · the night the railroad killed its passengers Major Events
- The SR 933 Pathway Trails
- St. Adalbert Parish — Krakow, the Cathedral of the West Side Churches & Religion
- St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church Churches & Religion
- St. Anthony de Padua Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Augustine Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Augustine's · a parish founded because the others were closed Black History
- St. Casimir Parish — Warszawa Churches & Religion
- St. Hedwig Parish — the Mother Polish Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Hedwig’s School — the Relay School Schools & Colleges
- St. John the Baptist Parish Churches & Religion
- The St. Joseph County Airport Authority Airports
- The St. Joseph County Savings Bank and the St. Joseph trust line — the 1869 bank that ends in KeyBank Banks
- St. Joseph Lodge No. 45: the first secret society in South Bend Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- St. Joseph Parish — the Mother Church Churches & Religion
- The St. Joseph River Section
- The St. Joseph Valley Parkway: the bypass that became the highway Main Roads & Corridors
- St. Joseph's Hospital: the Sisters' founding, 1881–1882 Hospitals
- St. Joseph's long course on the hill: 1903–1989 Hospitals
- St. Joseph’s Academy — the Hub of the Sisters’ Web Schools & Colleges
- St. Jude Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Margaret's House Charities
- St. Mary of the Assumption — the German Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Matthew Cathedral Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Matthew Cathedral School — and the Second Floor’s High School Schools & Colleges
- St. Nectarios Orthodox Church Churches & Religion
- St. Patrick Parish — the West-Side Irish and German Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Patrick's County Park Trails
- St. Patrick's Day: the parade and the greening of the Race Events Calendar
- St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Parish — Golden Hills Churches & Religion
- St. Stephen Parish — the Hungarian Parish Churches & Religion
- St. Therese, Little Flower Parish Churches & Religion
- Stan Coveleski: The Hall of Famer Who Chose This Ground Sports Players
- The stands: the Michigan Hotel and Earl's Tavern Main Roads & Corridors
- The Stanley Clark School Schools & Colleges
- The State Bank of Indiana's South Bend branch — the first bank Banks
- State honors: the Sagamore of the Wabash, a documented sample National Honors
- The state institution in the city: the children's hospital that became a developmental center Mental Health Institutions
- State Roads 2, 23 and 331, at survey size Main Roads & Corridors
- The State Theatre — The Fantasm Flapper Ghost Stories
- The State Theatre negotiation: open, at four million dollars and counting Historic Preservation
- The state's list · what Indiana itself publishes for this county Cold Cases
- The state's markers: twenty-three in the county Historic Preservation
- The statehouse line: South Bend in Indianapolis Public Servants
- The station builders: a university's channel, a newspaper's channels, and the men who ran them Film & TV Producers
- The station claims, tested one by one · what the tradition says, and what carries it Underground Railroad
- The stations: the roster, 1887 to the present eleven Fire & Public Safety
- Steam laid over water Industrial Revolution
- Stephen J. Luecke: fifteen years Government
- The Stephenson mills' end — failure in the Depression, year unpinned Businesses
- Stephenson Underwear Mills — from the Staley woolen mill Businesses
- Steve Nemeth: Riley's All-State Quarterback Sports Players
- Stoll's Account of St. Joseph County (1923) Sources
- The story as it grew · the South Bend Dillinger lore, tested Bank Robberies
- The Story of South Bend Section
- The Story of South Bend: Questions Settled The Story of South Bend
- The Story of South Bend: What It Leaves Out The Story of South Bend
- The Strand — The Avon — The Mall Theatre Theaters
- Strange but True Section
- Sts. Peter and Paul Serbian Orthodox Church Churches & Religion
- Studebaker Section
- The Studebaker Champions, 1942–1943 Sports
- The Studebaker Corporation, and the First World War Studebaker
- The Studebaker Descent: Trusts, a $2 Million Estate, and a Bankruptcy Great Fortunes
- The Studebaker Fortune: From $68 to the Largest Estate in the City's Record Great Fortunes
- The Studebaker National Museum — where the presidents' carriages live Famous Landmarks
- The Studebaker National Museum in November 2026 Museums
- The Studebaker National Museum today Museums
- The Studebaker Proving Ground and its tree sign — the name written for airplanes Famous Landmarks
- The Studebaker signature and the suburban shift Population
- The Studebaker test drivers: Johnson and McDonald at Indianapolis Racing
- Studebaker's engineers: Zeder, Skelton, Breer — and the brothers' empty patent file Inventors & Inventions
- Studebaker: Less Than They Promised (1983) — the documentary of the closing Film
- The Studebakers: five brothers, a dead president, and the two who saved it Notable People
- The suburban conversion: farmland against the suburbs Farms & Crops
- The succession of lodges: 294, Germania 301, Portage 675 Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- Sue Kidd: From a Boys' Team in Arkansas to the Staff Ace Sports Players
- Sue Kidd: The Arkansas Teenager South Bend Blue Sox
- The suffrage movement: organization, the 1917 grant and its loss, and ratification Women's History
- Sunburst: the race that finished on the fifty-yard line Events Calendar
- The Sunday News, the Post, and the rest of the 1907 survey Newspapers & Media
- Sunnymede and East Wayne Street Neighborhoods
- The Superintendents Schools & Colleges
- The Supporting Cast South Bend Blue Sox
- The Supporting Cast, and the City's Own Daughters Sports Players
- Sure-Brake — the computerized brake of 1971 Technology
- The Survey and the Plat Before the City
- The surveys: the city reads its own buildings Historic Preservation
- Susan Choi — six novels from a South Bend birth Authors & Books
- Susan Choi — the novelist Famous People
- The swingers file itself: a searched negative, and the state's one club case Swingers Clubs
- Sydney Pollack — the director, raised here Famous People
- Sydney Pollack and Tootsie: the raised-here director's comedy Comedy
- Sydney Pollack: the Mirage years Film & TV Producers
- The System as It Stands Trails
- The system as it stands: November 2026 Mental Health Institutions
- The system at its peak — the banks of 1921 and the building-and-loans Banks
- The system today Libraries
- The System Today: The Department's Own Count Parks & City Planning