City of Hammond

The commissioner looked at potential sites in Hammond and Gary this week.

The lab sits on the old Franciscan Health Hammond Hospital site.

The Governor is expected to be in Hammond for a fundraising event.

Repay officially began his term on November 1, 2025.

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The BP Foundation has partnered with Legacy Foundation, Lake County’s community foundation, to launch the BP Foundation Community Fund Grant to support organizations affected by the August 2025 storms and flooding.

Two Incidents with ICE Agents occurred Thursday morning.

"I think generations will laugh at this body, if we say this is a bad idea," Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. told council members. "Generations of Hammond residents will laugh at us."

"The neighborhood's great," said Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. "The neighbors who own their homes and a lot of people want to stay here, and there's not a lot of upward mobility for homes or even downward mobility for homes. But this gives us new options."

"This is a signature real estate development tool we use in our city," Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. told the city council last week. "It's been successful. Thousands of kids have graduated from colleges all across our state under this program."