Editing Chesterton, Indiana (section)

==History==
Chesterton was first settled under the name Coffee Creek in 1833, with its post office being established in 1835. The post office would eventually be renamed to Calumet in 1850, as which the town was [[plat]]ted when the railroad was extended to that point in 1852. Due to a town on the same railroad also being named Calumet, the name would finally be changed to Chesterton in 1870<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chesterton History |url=https://www.chestertonin.org/234/Chesterton-History |url-status=live |access-date=August 12, 2021 |website=chestertonin.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220074326/http://www.chestertonin.org:80/234/Chesterton-History |archive-date=February 20, 2015 }}</ref> and it was reincorporated as a town in 1899 after a failed incorporation in 1869,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofporterc01lewi#page/376/mode/2up |title=History of Porter County, Indiana : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |year=1912 |page=189 }}</ref> with its population of 788 being the second-largest in Porter County at the time.<ref>{{cite book |author=Kenneth J. Schoon |title=Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFYOkm6OIGIC&pg=PA189 |year=2003 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-34218-X |page=189 }}</ref>

In 1933, a [[United Airlines NC13304]] flight became the first known, proven case of sabotage in an aircraft. It was downed by a nitroglycerine bomb above Chesterton on October 10, 1933. All 7 people aboard the aircraft—four passengers and a crew of three—were killed in the crash.<ref>{{Cite news |title=1933 Crash of United Airlines Trip 23 Boeing 247 NC13304 Part 01 of 01 |language=en-us |work=FBI |url=https://vault.fbi.gov/1993-crash-of-united-airlines-trip-23-boeing-247-nc13304/1933%20Crash%20of%20United%20Airlines%20Trip%2023%20Boeing%20247%20NC13304%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view |access-date=December 21, 2017 |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051631/https://vault.fbi.gov/1993-crash-of-united-airlines-trip-23-boeing-247-nc13304/1933%20Crash%20of%20United%20Airlines%20Trip%2023%20Boeing%20247%20NC13304%20Part%2001%20of%2001/view |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1962, [[United Tractor]] moved to the town.<ref>{{cite news |title=Facts Given on Porter, Chesterton |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/333435715 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |work=Vidette-Messenger |date=March 30, 1962 |page=31 |archive-date=July 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725011114/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/333435715/ |url-status=live }}</ref>