Danelene Powell Watts spoke before the Calumet City Council prior to its regular meeting, telling officials she is not confident the current investigation by Illinois State Police ... and the city's lawyers advised her to say nothing more on the matter.

The city was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation as the home for its new plant. The city was named after the lawyer and founding chairman ... Then-deputy mayor and former Calumet Township Trustee Dozier T. Allen Jr. became acting mayor ...