sentences:  From 1832–1835 LaPorte County had its boundaries and jurisdiction of the land west of it going all the way to the east border of Chicago in Cook County, IL (land which is now Porter and Lake Counties).Before European-American settlement, all of the land that forms modern-day LaPorte County, and adjacent Starke County to the south belonged to the Potawatomi Indian nation.These Indians were forcibly removed to Kansas by the United States government in 1838, and many died on what survivors called the Trail of Death.