A city that much of Indiana wishes belonged to Illinois and
Chicago. A terrible city and industrial wasteland in northwest Indiana, next to
Chicago, and one of the worst cities in the country to live. It is like 90%
black and has a terrible crime problem. About 100,000 dirt-poor blacks live in this decaying--actually dying--Rust Belt city on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Gary was once the largest center of steel manufacturing in the country, until the 1960s, when the jobs were lost to overseas competition. The jobs and many
people are gone and NEVER to return. Thank God that Gary does NOT represent the rest of Indiana. I'
m sure that much of Indiana wishes Gary would belong to Illinois--let Chicago have it.