What is the setting of Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd?

Virtually every short story in the collection Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters is located in Hohman, Indiana. This is a very small town at the very northernmost portion of Indiana where the Lake Michigan shoreline allows for fierce winter weather to affect the area, where they are a stone's throw across the polluted lake from Chicago, and where he describes Hohman to be Chicago's broad rear end. The town is encircled by steel mills and oil refineries, city dumps and polluted rivers. It is not at all a genteel neighborhood, but one of blue collar workers who live hand to mouth on a daily basis, shopping either at the local A&P supermarket or Pulaski's general store.