“In shabby Terre Haute,” reported the Saturday Evening Post in 1961, “progress is dead, vice flourishes, and the citizens don’t seem to care.” Life magazine in 1958 described the city as ...

Efforts to create a commission to name Historic Preservation Districts in the city to prevent subpar development in neighborhoods thus declared has been discussed by the City Council for at least two ...

Don’t return Terre Haute to its tawdry pastI was born and raised in Terre Haute during a time when Terre Haute was known as “sin city”, with its plethora of ...

The Terre Haute City Council on Thursday evening passed three resolutions involving community redevelopment, while two other measures were withdrawn and an additional two were tabled until future ...

But Mike McCormick's fine new history, “Terre Haute: Queen City of the Wabash” (Arcadia Publishing, 2005, 160 pages, $24.99), aims to fill in whatever gaps we might have.

The Terre Haute City Council rejected a rezoning ordinance late Thursday night that would have paved the way for an apartment complex to be constructed in the proposed housing development along ...