I don’t anything about Chicago geography, google maps makes it looks like Hammond is a suburb of Chicago/ part of the greater Chicago metroplex.
Does anyone from that are know if that is the case?
Yes Hammond is part of “Chicagoland”, the greater metro area. In fact, enough of north-western Indiana is that they skewed the timezone to include it in central time (where Chicago is) so commuters didn’t have to deal with time changes every day to/from work.
Very cool.
Yes, Chicago is on the Illinois/Indiana border. Or close to it.
Similarly, the New York Jets actually play in New Jersey, but it’s still the New York Metropolitan Area.
The jets and the giants play there and don’t let anyone who lives there hear you say the Meadowlands is in NYC, but that is old school silliness now.
They won’t, because I never said it was in New York City, i.e. the Five Boroughs; I said it was in the New York Metropolitan Area, which it is. Same reason Hammond is in “Chicagoland” despite it being the next state over.
In layman’s terms, both are “close enough.”
Look at any major city and it will have smaller cities connected to it. You can’t see where one begins and another ends. Fun fact, San Francisco International Airport is not in San Francisco, CA. It’s in South San Francisco, which is a whole other city. There are also a few cities between San Francisco and South San Francisco. But you’d never know one ended and the next one begins. You just follow signs for the exits…
