South Bend, Indiana · 21st century
2010s
83 dated events in 2010s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
21st century 83 dated mentions
2010s
- 2010City, county, metro — and the city of students outside the line
The place was first separately counted in 2010, at 5,973; in 2020 it counted 7,234, up 21.1 percent, of whom 6,721 — 92.9 percent — lived in college dormitories, in 181 households, at a median age of 20.3 years, on 1.2 square miles.
- 2010The end of Madison: designation, sale, and closure
Effective at 5 p.m. on 24 September 2010, by mutual agreement announced on 7 September, Oaklawn Psychiatric Center of Elkhart County assumed the state-required duties of the designated Community Mental Health Center for St. Joseph County from Madison Center…
- 2010The system as it stands: November 2026
The designation: Oaklawn Psychiatric Center, the Mennonite nonprofit of Elkhart County, is the state-designated community mental health center for St. Joseph County, as it has been since September 2010…
- 2010–2025Riders and fares, as the record states them
Transpo's base fare is one dollar, and the agency's fare record dates its most recent increase to 5 April 2010 — the dollar fare has therefore stood through the whole period this entry covers.
- 2010–2025Attendance: The Zoo's Own Count
Lead: The zoo publishes its own attendance, and the series is printed here whole, as the zoo gives it — round figures where the zoo rounds them, exact figures where it counts them: 2010, 185,000; 2011, 198,000; 2012, 203,898; 2013, 205,758; 2014, 207,000 — the year the society took over; 2015, 219,667; 2016, 232,125…
- 2011Data Realty: the incubator's first graduate
On February 9, 2011, Mayor Stephen J. Luecke announced the agreement: the city would sell Data Realty a 4.94-acre site at the eastern end of Ignition Park, on Franklin Street, and the company would build a Tier III data center of nearly 50,000 square feet — the first private, high-tech business in the technology park…
- 2011Aunalytics: the professor's data company
The largest software employer the second wave produced was bootstrapped out of a Notre Dame laboratory: Aunalytics grew from conversations begun in 2011 between Nitesh Chawla, a Notre Dame computer-science professor whose research group worked on data mining and machine learning, and Tracy Graham of Graham Allen Partners…
- 2011Accidents: the NTSB record
The field's fatal record is two general-aviation accidents, and both are printed whole: On 4 April 2011 a rented Cirrus SR22, in from Chicago Executive Airport, caught a gust on approach, struck its left wing, and cartwheeled 250 feet from the runway; the pilot, the sole occupant, died of his injuries (NTSB CEN11FA267).
- 2011The regime at work: the county department's own tables
FluMist in the schools, TB on the rise: Its school influenza program put FluMist into the county's elementary schools at a documented scale: 5,350 children in thirty-seven schools in 2011, 4,935 children in thirty-seven schools in 2012, and 5,234 children in thirty-seven schools in 2013…
- 2011HIV in the official record
Residents of St. Joseph County living with HIV — the table's "total number of existing cases," from state data — numbered 528 in 2011 and 553 in 2012; the 2013 column stands in the report as not previously reported.
- 2011The Epworth Center's decade, the crisis center, and the consolidation of 2026
Psychiatry at the general hospital: Beacon marked the Epworth Center's first decade in its own retrospective of 13 July 2021, and the figures are the system's, printed as it states them: Memorial had pledged in early 2011 to provide psychiatric services at the former Madison Center properties on Niles Avenue…
- 2011The consolidation: Beacon Health System, 2011–2012 and after
Two hospitals become a system: The consolidation era opened in March 2011, when Memorial Health System of South Bend and Elkhart General Healthcare System announced they were partnering to merge — a memorandum of understanding to form a combined system, signed that month.
- 2011The Harper Cancer Research Institute, 2011
Two faculties, one institute: South Bend's cancer research house was built as a partnership and opened with its building: the Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute launched in 2011 with the dedication that March of Harper Hall…
- 2011Tramelle Sturgis · a child's death and a 140-year sentence
On the evening of 3 November 2011, over a period of hours, he beat his sons. His ten-year-old son, Tramelle Sturgis, died in the early hours of 4 November 2011; the pathologist's finding, as the Court of Appeals states it, was death by blunt force trauma, primarily to the head.
- 2011The Indiana Whiskey Company: the city's first documented distillery
Company profiles date the founding to 2011, the year of the idea; the documented public course begins with the 2012 competition, and both are printed.
- 2011Hoosier State Chronicles and the digital newspaper repositories
It began in 2011 with National Endowment for the Humanities funding, in partnership with the Indiana Historical Society, digitizing Indiana papers for the National Digital Newspaper Program; the NDNP titles also stand in the Library of Congress's Chronicling America.
- 2011–2012Dellia Castile — the charge frame settled from the appellate record; the sentence still unreached
The banked item: The Murders file carries Castile as charged in 2011 in the neglect case in which her son Terry Sturgis was the first defendant, and convicted in 2012 on the Tribune's account, with her sentence unreached.
- 2011–2019The Shawn Fox releases — the age conflict verified, and a fourth release joins it (assembly flag 21)
The three releases, re-verified: The U.S. Attorney's "Week In Review – South Bend" records "Shawn Fox, 49, of South Bend, Indiana," sentenced by District Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. to 120 months imprisonment, two years of supervised release, and $3,409 in restitution after pleading guilty…
- 2011–2019The Shawn Fox records · 2011, 2013, and the winter of 2018–19
The 2011 robbery: a United States Attorney's week-in-review report for the South Bend division records that Shawn Fox, 49 years old, of South Bend, was sentenced by District Judge Robert L. Miller Jr. to 120 months in prison and $3,409 in restitution after pleading guilty to bank robbery with the use of a firearm: in…
- 2011–2026The Police Tapes: Fourteen Years Over Five Cassettes
In February 2011 the department's communications director, Karen DePaepe, was restoring the crashed Voice Logger recording system when she found Young's voice on the line and realized officers' internal calls had been captured for months.
- 2011–todayThe Career and Technical Line
Career Academy — a charter school, not the corporation's: Career Academy South Bend opened in August 2011 at 3801 Nimtz Parkway, in the Blackthorn area at the city's northwest edge, in a converted credit-card statement-processing plant of some 106,000 to 110,000 square feet of industrial space.
- 2012Beacon Health — one line
Cross-reference: Beacon Health System, formed in 2012 and headquartered in South Bend, stands among the region's largest employers; its hospitals, its building campaigns, and its record belong to the Hospitals section of this build and are carried there.
- 2012The cleanup: smart sewers, the amended decree, and the state of the work in 2026
The second phase was renegotiated, and its terms are the present law of the river: In September 2021 the EPA and the Justice Department formally endorsed the city's revised long-term control plan, and in 2022 the amended plan — named SAGE, for Smarter Alternative for a Greener Environment…
- 2012Ignition Park and the Renaissance District — the ground goes back to work
Its first tenant, Data Realty, arrived in the fall of 2012; the Catalyst One and Catalyst Two buildings followed, housing among others the Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory…
- 2012The shape of the whole: an infrastructure city in the internet age
Around the firms stands the local capital thread, documented name by name across the entries above: Graham Allen Partners, the South Bend holding company behind both Data Realty and Aunalytics; Elevate Ventures' state-backed seed money in Trek10…
- 2012EnFocus: the fellowship corporation the city's institutions built together
The founding: enFocus was launched in May 2012 out of a diagnosis shared by the University of Notre Dame and the city's civic leadership: South Bend was spending its economic-development energy on outside employers while its own graduates left.
- 2012A million dollars at halftime
He was one of five finalists drawn on August 1, 2012, each of whom received $500 and a place in the final drawing.
- 2012–2013The Girlfriend Who Never Was: The Hoax the Paper Carried
The tale: in September 2012 the Tribune reported, in its coverage of the death of linebacker Manti Te'o's grandmother, that his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, had died the same week after a battle with leukemia — the double loss becoming the emotional spine of an undefeated season, told and retold nationally.
- 2012–2020Pete Buttigieg: the 29-year-old, the programs, and the national stage
The election of 2011: Pete Buttigieg, born in South Bend on 19 January 1982, a hometown Rhodes scholar and management consultant who had already run once for state office, won the open mayoralty in 2011 and took office on 1 January 2012, aged twenty-nine — the youngest mayor of any American city with a population over 100,000.
- 2012–2026The modern course: mail, kiosks, and the Ireland Road branch
The system's last transformation took the transaction out of the branch altogether: since 2012, Indiana plates are made to order and mailed from Indianapolis, so the counter no longer hands a South Bend motorist the physical plate his grandfather carried home from Michigan Street…
- 2012–todayThe VA's South Bend years, and the clinic across the line
In May 2012 it moved downtown, into the former Gates Toyota showroom at Western Avenue and William Street, across from Four Winds Field — an 18,000-square-foot facility that the South Bend Redevelopment Commission had bought and renovated for $3.3 million in January of that year, leased on to the VA's contractor at $280,000 a year.
- 2013Vennli: the entrepreneurship dean's own startup
The pipeline's most personal product was built by the man who built the pipeline: Vennli was founded in 2013 on a strategy model developed by Joe Urbany, a marketing professor in Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business — a framework for winning customer choice by mapping what customers weigh…
- 2013Trek10: serverless from South Bend
The second wave's cleanest venture exit was a consultancy that bet everything on one cloud: Trek10 was founded by Andrew Warzon, Jim Abercrombie and Shane Fimbel…
- 2013The Society Takes Over, 1 January 2014
Lead: On 18 November 2013 the South Bend Board of Park Commissioners recorded that a basic agreement had been reached on a public-private partnership for the zoo, with the transfer targeted for 1 January 2014; on 24 December 2013 the Tribune announced it to the city: "Zoological society to take over management of Potawatomi Zoo."
- 2013–20191,000 Houses in 1,000 Days
On February 27, 2013 the city's Vacant and Abandoned Properties Task Force — co-chaired by James Kelly of the Notre Dame Law School — released its report, and Mayor Buttigieg set the goal that named the program: one thousand vacant and abandoned houses addressed in one thousand days, by repair or by demolition, backed…
- 2013–2025Lilly Endowment's line: the largest foundation grants in the record
At the other end of the scale, in December 2013 it gave 3 million dollars to the university in support of the Alliance for Catholic Education's work with Catholic schools — the gift the Nonprofits leg credits with converting an experiment into an institution.
- 2013–2025South Bend Robbers at Other Cities' Banks
Zamale Davis and accomplices robbed a bank at Bristol of $53,800 on August 7, 2013 (121 months). Isaiah C. Fisher robbed a credit union in Michigan City on April 16, 2015, a documented loss of $11,460 (188 months).
- 2013–todayThe county's hand: the service office, the stand down, the veterans court
The veterans treatment court: The county's courts built a veterans institution of their own in 2013, when St. Joseph Superior Judge Jane Woodward Miller started the St. Joseph County Veterans Treatment Court — a problem-solving court giving veteran defendants the individualized, treatment-oriented handling their cases called for.
- 2013–todayThe building's afterlife: the hotel that rose beside it
The city listed the former Hall for sale at $2.8 million in 2013 and issued a call for offers; on December 30, 2013, it rejected four developer reuse proposals as incomplete.
- 2014"International": the customs build, 2014–2019
The word was a promise first and a facility second: When the Airport Authority announced the name South Bend International Airport on 23 April 2014, it paired the name with a project: about $3 million, from federal, state, and airport funds, to build a general aviation facility and a border customs area.
- 2014The boundary at Atlanta: where the College Hall lives now
The Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame opened on August 23, 2014, at 250 Marietta Street NW, beside Centennial Olympic Park: 94,256 square feet, nearly twice the South Bend building, at a cost the Foundation gives as $68.5 million…
- 2014South Bend Brew Werks: the theater brewery, and the craft era's first house
The company's own telling, on its site in November 2026, dates its service "Since 2014"; the Scholastic, Notre Dame's student magazine, pins the public opening: "Since the opening on Saturday, Sept. 20" — the 20th of September 2014 was a Saturday — "South Bend Brew Werks has been serving the community with locally made craft beer."
- 2014–todayThe Cubs era, 2015–present
The affiliation: On September 18, 2014, the club signed a four-year player-development contract with the Chicago Cubs.
- 2015South Bend Code School: the Dotcom record's unworked lead, worked
The founding: South Bend Code School was founded in 2015 by three people: Alexandra Sejdinaj — Alexandra Liggins of Notre Dame's class of 2015 — her husband Alex Sejdinaj, and Chris Frederick, the two men then working in information technology at the university.
- 2015SB150: the city throws itself a birthday, 2015
The Birthday Weekend ran May 22–24, 2015: opening ceremonies on Friday, May 22, the dedication of the South Bend River Lights that evening from seven to ten with downtown fireworks and a torch relay that ceremonially lit the installation, and ten activity zones across both banks of the river.
- 2015Thirty years · Carlos Maez and the bank of October 16, 2015
The robbery: on October 16, 2015, a bank in South Bend — unnamed in the Department of Justice's account — was robbed by a man who displayed a firearm, demanded money from the teller, and fled on foot with over $8,000, seen by witnesses running from the bank to an SUV that carried him away.
- 2015The Courtyard in the Hall of Fame's Shell
In April 2015 the city announced that JSK Hospitality would buy the former Hall of Fame building and its lot for $1.2 million.
- 2015The other craft rooms: Crooked Ewe, Studebaker Brewing, and the Ivy Alley brewery
The Crooked Ewe, at 1047 Lincolnway East on the riverfront, opened its taproom officially on 6 June 2015 — the date in the brewery's own directory description…
- 2015–2017Smart Streets and the Signal at South and Michigan
Construction ran from the spring of 2015 to November 2016.
- 2015–2025Light on the river: public art as policy, and SB150
The sculpture: On 22 May 2015, the exact 150th anniversary of South Bend's incorporation, the city unveiled the South Bend River Lights: an interactive light sculpture by the artist Rob Shakespeare, more than 200 lights washing the St. Joseph River's falls and both banks, towers called the Light Trio and the Light…
- 2015–2026The Proving Ground's owner, re-dated
The name above the gate changed: The banked Studebaker record carries the proving ground's modern ownership as "Navistar, 2015" — the truck maker that bought the New Carlisle ground from Bosch that year.
- 2015–2026Counting the crowd: the modern fair's numbers, each with its measure
At its 90th edition, in 2015 on the fair's own count from 1926, the fair's history records a nine day celebration and a fair board increased to 27 members as the fair saw increased growth.
- 2016Cultivate Food Rescue
Founding: Cultivate Food Rescue was founded in 2016 by Jim Conklin, and it began as a culinary-training venture; in the summer of 2016 the University of Notre Dame and Cultivate were already collaborating on reducing food waste from the football stadium.
- 2016The rain flood · August 2016
The first of the two great floods was not the river's work: On the night of 15–16 August 2016, rain fell on South Bend and St. Joseph County at one to two inches an hour for hours.
- 2016Navari and the nausea trial: olanzapine, 2016
The New England Journal of Medicine published it on 14 July 2016 under Navari's first authorship and his South Bend affiliation, and the numbers are the journal's: of 380 evaluable patients, the proportion with no chemotherapy-induced nausea at all was seventy-four percent on olanzapine against forty-five on placebo…
- 2016The Master Plan and the New Front Door
Lead: Two years into the society's management, the zoo published the document that has governed it since: a master plan released in 2016, drawn with GLMV Architecture of Wichita and Zoo Advisors, priced at thirty-seven million dollars — the zoo's own magazine called it a "10+ year, $37–$40 million Master Plan"…
- 2016Four Winds: the city's side of the agreement
Pointer, by design: Four Winds Casino South Bend — opened January 16, 2018, on some 166 acres the United States took into trust for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians on November 28, 2016…
- 2016Brandon Reed: the animator the platforms found at home
On the evening of 22 August 2016 he dropped his debut cartoon, a two minute comedy bit built around a character called Lil Ron Ron, and went to sleep on the couch he shared with his kids.
- 2016–2020The Community Resident Card and the Records Fight
In December 2016 La Casa de Amistad, the city's Latino advocacy organization, unveiled the Community Resident Card — the "SB ID" — an identification card for residents, including undocumented immigrants, who could not obtain state identification.
- 2016–2026Lydick Bog Nature Preserve
The Shirley Heinze Land Trust acquired the preserve in 2016 — 178 acres in the trust's account, 176.46 acres in the DNR's preserve guide — and it was dedicated as an Indiana State Nature Preserve in January 2019.
- 2016–todayCartoon Connect: a studio that is a house in South Bend
Cartoon Connect, founded in 2016, is the animation studio and YouTube channel behind Lil Ron Ron, Gotta Be Mo, and Granny & Duke, and it operates from Brandon Reed's home in South Bend.
- 2017Two gifts of 100 million: an aviation fortune's unrestricted commitment, and an anonymous couple's poverty initiative
The Ricci commitment: On 25 October 2017 the university announced a commitment of 100 million dollars from Kenn Ricci, a Notre Dame alumnus and trustee who founded the aviation holding company Directional Aviation Capital, and his wife Pamela…
- 2017The children's hospital: Memorial Children's to Beacon Children's
When the new home was complete the name followed the system: on 6 April 2017, by Beacon's own release, "with the construction of the new Children's Hospital complete," the institution's name changed from Memorial Children's Hospital to Beacon Children's Hospital.
- 2017Arcades and lanes: the county frame
Mega Play, in the Town & Country Shopping Centre at 2500 Miracle Lane, Mishawaka, combines an indoor 18-hole miniature golf course, a playland and a large token arcade that its own billing calls the largest video arcade in Michiana; Pinball News's April 2017 visit counted 11 pinball machines on the floor.
- 2017Brit Prawat: the South Bend end of the line
When the show launched in December 2017, its format was set by that distance: Flowers narrates a case she has researched, and Prawat, from South Bend, asks the questions and supplies the interjections the audience came to expect.
- 2017–2020Okapi Arrive; the Chimpanzees Leave
Lead: In 2017 the Potawatomi Zoo became, by its own published account, the first AZA-accredited zoo in Indiana to exhibit okapi — the striped, giraffe-kin forest animal of the Congo, among the most coveted exhibits in American zoos — and received two males.
- 2017–todayAudiochuck: the company the South Bend pair built
Thirteen thousand dollars: Audiochuck, the podcast network Ashley Flowers founded in 2017 and named after her dog Charlie, called Chuck, began on her life savings of $13,000, raised at the start through Patreon memberships and advertising.
- 2017–todayThe institutional wave: the city podcasts its own archive
The show's own announcement, carried in its feed, dates the run: since 2017 it had published 54 episodes when, in June 2024, it changed format, promising the same stories in a new shape from 12 June 2024, and it was still publishing in the autumn of 2026.
- 2018South Bend Vineyard Church
The plant: The Vineyard Church of Mishawaka records, in its REACH church-planting reports: "In the first month of 2018, we sent out David Murrell as our first church planter in REACH… He now leads South Bend Vineyard on the Northwest side of South Bend and they are getting ready to move into their new permanent facility."
- 2018The circle closes: the band returns as a landholder
The last turning of the Story of South Bend section's story is the oldest one: In 2016 the United States took 166 acres on South Bend's south side, at 3000 Prairie Avenue, into trust for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians — the first restoration of sovereign tribal land in Indiana…
- 2018The river's record · February 2018
Eighteen months after the rain flood, the river itself came up higher than it had ever been measured: February 2018 began as the snowiest February on record at the South Bend cooperative observer…
- 2018The river's record, and February 2018 · the crest that broke it
South Bend is a river city in the literal sense — the town exists because the river bends — and in February 2018 the river made its largest statement in the gauge era: The month began as the snowiest February start on record at the South Bend cooperative observer, laying down the snowpack…
- 2018The Four Winds Hotel Tower
Lead: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's Four Winds South Bend casino, on Prairie Avenue on the city's south side — its trust-land course told in the Before the City and Government accounts of this record — opened in January 2018 deliberately without a hotel: the Band's own account says the casino was built first, to test the market.
- 2018–2019The Departures — 2018 and 2019, and Who Still Teaches
The Felicians’ leaving: In July 2018 the last two Felician Sisters left St. Adalbert’s: Sister Mary Anthony Kubat, who had served twenty-one years at the parish, and Sister Mary Catherine Ryzewicz, there since 2009, reassigned to the order’s Maryville Retreat Center in Holly, Michigan.
- 2018–2024The Closing Waves: the Elementary and Intermediate Schools
Greene, 2018: Greene Intermediate Center closed in 2018. The school had begun in 1930 as the Greene Township School, serving its rural township at the county's southwest edge; in the 1950s its enrollment passed 600.
- 201914 April 2019 · a mayor announces for president on a Studebaker floor
This closing entry is short, and its claim is narrow: On 14 April 2019, Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced his candidacy for president of the United States from the floor of Studebaker Building 84, in the old works, in the district the city had spent its post-Studebaker decades remaking.
- 2019The credit union robbery of November 20, 2019
The robbery: on November 20, 2019, Armand White and Daniel Scott entered a federal credit union in South Bend — unnamed in the Department of Justice's account — with their faces covered and firearms in hand, and demanded money; they got it, and fled in a car driven by Crystal Egan of South Bend, who had planned the robbery with them.
- 2019–2021The Egan crew — Armand White's 300 months documented; Daniel Scott's sentence still open
The Robberies file carries the crew: on November 20, 2019, Armand White and Daniel Scott robbed a South Bend federal credit union the Department of Justice's account does not name, Crystal Egan driving and planning…
- 2019–2021The Keller Park interlude
The Keller Park Branch opened at 737 Beale Street on 2 December 2019, carrying the Main Library's two most public services through the renovation — Studio 304 and Local & Family History lived at Keller Park while Main was dark — and the board of trustees met there through 2021.
- 2019–2022The Main Library block rebuilt
The Main Library closed on 1 November 2019; it reopened, grandly, on 14 November 2021, under a new logo and website launched the month before; the Community Learning Center opened on 10 January 2022.
- 2019–2023The Shooting of Eric Logan and Its Three Verdicts
In the early hours of June 16, 2019, Sergeant Ryan O'Neill, a nineteen-year veteran of the South Bend Police Department, was investigating a string of car break-ins — seven reported that night — in the parking lot of the Central High Apartments when he encountered Eric Logan, 54.
- 2019–2025The Rhinos: Masamba, Then Frankie
Lead: The zoo's first rhinoceros arrived in 2019: Masamba, a male southern white rhinoceros, three years old, exhibited beside the okapi — a three-year-old rhino is already most of a ton of animal, and the zoo's magazine, saying goodbye six years later, called him plainly "the Zoo's first rhino."
- 2019–todaySoccer — the Lions and what followed
The club: South Bend's entry in organized soccer came late and at the pre-professional level: South Bend Lions FC was announced on November 18, 2019, as a USL League Two expansion club, owned by Ritchie Jeune with Bethel University's Thiago Pinto as technical director, playing at TCU School Field.