Lowell occupies level former-prairie country along Cedar Creek in northwest Indiana. The town lies in Lake County, south of the Chicago metropolitan area, where the creek continues toward the Kankakee River. Its compact centre is organized around the crossroads of U.S. Route 2 and Indiana State Road 55, with older brick commercial buildings giving Main Street a distinctly small-town scale. Lowell is especially associated with its annual Labor Day Parade, a long-running local tradition that brings marching bands, civic groups and families into downtown streets. Nearby farmland, drainage channels and wooded creek corridors mark the transition between urbanizing northwest Indiana and the Kankakee basin. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Lowell relates to its northwest Indiana surroundings.
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