Shelby, IN

Shelby is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cedar Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana. The 2020 census counted 453 residents. Shelby was laid out and platted in 1886 by William R. Shelby lies in the southeast corner of Cedar Creek Township, bordered to the south by the Kankakee River, which forms the Newton County line. Whiteco Industries, an Indiana business which, with its affiliates, is engaged in advertising in Indiana, and in ownership of hotels, grew along with Dean White from a small advertising business in Shelby.

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The successor to the Shelby location of Whiteco's business, Modagraphics, closed its doors, however, in 1993, as a result of a consolidation within its new parent company from Illinois. The school that was there was changed into a park. A newcomer can read Shelby through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Shelby comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.