Cliffs Dearborn Works

[Guest]

USS Great Lakes in Ecorse (gone I believe or greatly diminished ) as well as McClouth Steel in Gibraltar. They use to get boats delivering ore.

[William Lafferty]

The last vestige of South Chicago steelmaking is the former Acme Steel sheet rolling plant at "Acme Bend" on the Little Calumet just west of the old Chicago Regional Port District facility on south Lake Calumet, once part of Interlake Iron Company, later owned by ISG, Arcelor/Mittel, and now Cleveland Cliffs and, I believe, closed a year ago and looking for a buyer.

[Denny]

Sad as it is to say, it almost sounds to me like a similiar situation and story of years ago when they closed and shuttered the Steel Making operations in the Detroit area at Zug Island! The Steel Mill at Zug Island no longer gets or receives shipments of ore pellets anymore and there has been no plans to ever reopen Zug Island at least the Steel Mill anytime soon! Almost sounds very similiar to what is happening now with the Cliffs Dearborn Works. And although this in part is not related to this post, many also forget another less often talked about Steel Mill and operation shuttered its doors and operations years ago. Indiana Harbor at one point in time had two Steel Mills and plants. They were the once LTV East and West Docks. The East would be served by Inland Steel and still is today though it’s now called Cleveland Cliffs East Dock. The West Dock also had name changes like the East Dock yet the West Dock at Indiana Harbor no longer receives anymore ore shipments by ship as only the East Dock at Indiana Harbor receives ore now and sometimes ships load slag from the East Dock as well. I don’t think the West Dock is used anymore as far as for ship traffic to my knowledge and I’m not sure just when the last time the West Dock was used for anything?

[GreatLaker]

Still shuttered. No plans announced to reopen.

[Guest]

At one time, there were five steel mills operating in South Chicago. This was in the 1970's. US Steel South Works, Valley Mould & Iron, Wisconsin Steel, Interlake Steel, and Republic Steel. I believe South Works was last to close around 1990.

[Guest]

Is this mill still shuttered? If so, hard to believe that no steel Mill currently operating in the Detroit area.