of families and 14.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19.7% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over. Economy Major employers According to the city, those businesses employing 200 or more employees in Hammond are: Arts and culture National Register of Historic Places The following single properties and national historic districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Morse Dell Plain House and Garden Forest-Ivanhoe Residential Historic District Forest-Moraine Residential Historic District Forest-Southview Residential Historic District Glendale Park Historic District Hohman Avenue Commercial Historic District Indi-Illi Park Historic District Northern States Life Insurance Company Pullman-Standard Historic District Roselawn-Forest Heights Historic District Southmoor Apartment Hotel State Bank of Hammond Building State Street Commercial Historic District George John Wolf House Public libraries Hammond Public Library, located at 564 State Street, includes the Suzanne G. Long Local History Room. The system used to operate the E.B. Hayward Branch at 1212 172nd Street and the Howard Branch at 7047 Grand Avenue. Both branches have since been closed. The Hammond Public Library was the first library in the state to form a recognized union, a local of AFSCME. Patricia E. Robinson was the first president of the library union. Sports Hammond was defeated by the team from Taipei, Taiwan in the 1972 Little League World Series. Past teams Hammond Rollers, an American Basketball Association team founded in 2006, was sold to the owner of the Quad City Riverhawks the same year. The team relocated and became the Sauk Valley Rollers of Rock Falls, Illinois. Hammond Ciesar All-Americans (1938–41) and Hammond Calumet Buccaneers (1948–49), were professional basketball teams in the National Basketball League. Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau and UCLA basketball coach John Wooden both played for the Ciesar All-Americans. The Hammond Pros (1920–1924) The Hammond Pros was one of the earliest professional football teams in the United States. When the American Professional Football League was formed in 1920, the Hammond Pros was a charter member, as it also was when the league changed its name to National Football League in 1922. However, four years later, when the NFL decided to reduce the number of teams, it did so by simply folding smaller franchises. The Hammond Pros never played a home game in Hammond. During the four years of the Hammond Pros' existence, the NFL had nine African-American players, six of whom played for