Schererville (/ˈʃɛrərvɪl/ SHERR-ər-vil, locally /ˈʃɛərvɪl/ SHAIR-vil) is a town in St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States.

The population was 29,646 at the 2020 census [7] It is a suburb of Chicago, located 30 miles south of the city.

[8][9] Long before Indiana became a state, long before the founding of Schererville, people called the area the "Crossroads," as several Native American trails intersected here, that later became routes for the wagons of settlers traveling west.

One of those settlers was Nicholas Scherer, who was born in 1830 at Scheuern,[10] today part of Tholey, Saarland, in southwestern Germany, who arrived in the U.S. in 1846.

When he came to this place at the southern tip of Lake Michigan in 1865, he founded the community that bears his name.

All these are primary transcontinental routes and gives Schererville its slogan: "Crossroads of the Nation."

Schererville's former Town Council President, Perry Ferrini, died on December 13, 2009.

The Town Council's new president became Jerry Tippy, and the vacant seat held by Perry was filled by Sharon Moore on January 9, 2010.

Schererville is served by the Lake Central School Corporation, which also services the adjacent town of Dyer as well as most of St. John and a section of Griffith.

[18] Schererville is served by The Times of Northwest Indiana, and The Post-Tribune, which is owned by the Chicago Tribune.

Schererville residents and visitors fly via Chicago's O'Hare International or Midway.

[20] The Borman Expressway (I-80/94/US 6), the Indiana Toll Road, Interstate 65, US 12 and US 20 are within a 25-mile (40 km) radius of Schererville.

The town's nickname, "The Crossroads of America," stems from the fact that U.S. Route 41, (stemming from Upper Peninsula Michigan to Miami, Florida) U.S. Route 30, (stemming from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Astoria, Oregon) and the old Lincoln Highway (the east end starting in Times Square and the west end starting in Lincoln Park in San Francisco, CA) intersect in Schererville.