April 20, 2016 | South Bend Tribune | By Joseph Dits |
As Chicago warded off industry from its Lake Michigan shore more than a century ago, oil companies looked east to the biologically diverse sand dunes of Indiana to build their refineries.
John D. Rockefeller, the wealthy oilman who owned Standard Oil Co., would erect what was — at that time — the world’s largest refinery.
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