As of 2016, city plans called for the construction of a pedestrian overpass that would enable North Harbor residents to walk to the marina district by 2022.

[3] Beyond the marina district lies the vast manmade peninsula that houses the Indiana Harbor Works operated by ArcelorMittal.

The now-demolished lakefront area of North Harbor was historically one of the few neighborhoods in East Chicago open to African American settlement.

[1] Dating to the early 20th century, North Harbor was originally platted and built to provide housing for workers at East Chicago's steel mills near to their workplaces.

[7] A notable result of these investments is that, even as local incomes have plummeted with the decline of industrial employment, the population density of the neighborhood has held steady.