This cold war missile base protected the steel mills and oil refineries along the Indiana lakeshore as well as the business and financial centers in nearby Chicago.
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Battery C of the 60th Air Defense Artillery code-named C-46. Deactivated in 1974. Demolished 2008. 41.527754,-87.5166064 Nike Missile Base
Nike missile sites were constructed in rings surrounding major urban and industrial areas and key Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases and other sensitive installations.
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Though they were built on government-owned property where available (such as military bases and former artillery bases), much real estate was acquired specifically for missile-base construction, including two portions of Chicago's Burnham and Jackson Parks. post 
Approximately 250 sites were constructed in the U.S. 1953-58. Remains of the Munster site. google
See also Titan II ICBM sites near Tucson.
We would visit the site during their annual open house while I was growing up in the '60s. See At Home on Prairie Ave