EAST CHICAGO — A flash explosion at T.A.C. East, Inc. Wednesday morning sent a large plume of black smoke into the air.

The city's Indiana Harbor section had already seen multiple shootings in 2025, two of them fatal, in what has been a busy year so far for the area.

Mostly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. Temperature falling into the mid 80s in the afternoon. West winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 ...

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