Gary Indiana is located along the southern shore of Lake Michigan about 25 miles east of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Gary Indiana is located along the southern shore of Lake Michigan about 25 miles east of downtown Chicago, Illinois.
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Gary Indiana was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary Indiana, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.
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The city was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary Indiana, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.
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Gary Indiana was the site of civil unrest in the steel strike of 1919.
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Gary Indiana's fortunes have risen and fallen with those of the steel industry.
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Gary Indiana has closed several of its schools within the last ten years.
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Gary Indiana endorsed rival Karen Freeman-Wilson, who won the Democratic mayoral primary in May 2011.
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Gary Indiana's was defeated in her bid for a third term in the 2019 Democratic primary by Lake County Assessor Jerome Prince.
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Downtown Gary Indiana is separated by Broadway into two distinctive communities.
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Originally, the City of Gary Indiana consisted of The East Side, The West Side, The South Side, and Glen Park, located further South along Broadway.
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Gary Indiana is listed by the Koppen-Geiger climate classification system as humid continental .
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Weather in Gary Indiana is greatly regulated by its proximity to Lake Michigan.
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Since the early 2000s, Gary Indiana has been the setting for numerous films made by Hollywood filmmakers.
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Gary Indiana is served by two major newspapers based outside the city, and by a Gary Indiana-based, largely African-American interest paper.
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Gary Indiana is served by the Gary Indiana Police Department and the Lake County Sheriff.
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Gary Indiana is the hometown of the Jackson family, a family of musicians who influenced the sound of modern popular music.
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