In 1847, the area which is now Chandler opened a post office named Lee to serve its residents.

The canal system was never fully completed, having met its doom with financial problems and competition from the railroad boom, but part of the canal remains today along with the old tow path, aptly named Tow Path Road.

Chandler, the foreman of the Lake Erie, Evansville & South Western Railroad, which had completed construction on a new railway through town the year before.

Using the creek bed from the failed Wabash and Erie Canal, L E E & S W RR created a rail line from Evansville through Chandler and on to Gentryville.

Although the line is no longer used for passenger travel, Norfolk Southern still operates cargo trains on a portion of the railway that follows the Central Canal.

Warrick County lies on the eastern edge of the Illinois Basin, making it a vast coal resource; once the use of coal became mainstreamed for locomotives (and later, for generating electricity), companies flocked to the area to begin mining operations.

For the next two decades, town officials and residents worked to organize and equip a volunteer fire department, improve streets and install street lights, construct water wells and a water treatment plant, complete a sewer treatment plant and system, and purchase a building to house town offices.

More recently, residential, commercial, and industrial development has remained slow and steady.

[6] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally cool to cold winters.

The town council holds both legislative and executive powers while the clerk-treasurer is responsible for financial matters.

The judge on the court is elected to a term of four years and must be a member of the Indiana Bar Association.

[10] Chandler is represented by Vaneta Becker (District 50) in the Indiana State Senate.

The town is located in the 8th District of Indiana (map) and served by U.S. Representative Larry Bucshon, a resident of Newburgh.