French Lick is a town in French Lick Township, Orange County, Indiana. The population was 1,807 at the times of the 2010 census. In November 2006, the French Lick Resort Casino, the state’s tenth casino in the advanced legalized era, opened, drawing national attention to the little town. However, it is best known as the hometown of basketball legend^{[citation needed]} Larry Bird.

French Lick was originally a French trading broadcast built close a spring and salt lick. A fortified ranger broadcast was established near the springs in 1811. On Johnson’s 1837 map of Indiana, the community was known as Salt Spring. The town was founded in 1857. French Lick’s read out office has been in operation back 1847.

The sulfur springs were commercially exploited for medical relieve starting in 1840. By the forward-looking half of the 19th century, French Lick was famous in the United States as a spa town. In the upfront 20th century it in addition to featured casinos attracting celebrities such as boxer Joe Louis, composer Irving Berlin and gangster Al Capone.

Because of wartime travel restrictions, the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox held spring training in French Lick from 1943 to 1944; in 1945 the Cubs stayed in town while the White Sox moved to Terre Haute, utilizing Memorial Stadium. In order to conserve rail transport during World War II, 1943 spring training was limited to an Place east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River.