Many of the old US Highways are predominately straight-line routes. In Northwest Indiana, it's curvy. There's a reason why: It replaced the old Chicago Road, which ran from Detroit to, well you know where. That road was built on an old Indian Trail, known as Sauk Trail, which ran all the way to Rock Island, Illinois. Sauk Trail, a busy thoroughfare in Chicago's far southern suburbs, follows a portion of that route.
The Indiana portion of US Route 12 is known as the Iron Brigade Highway, named for fierce fighters in the Civil War made up of soldiers from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
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