Gary Indiana
Lake Michigan industrial town
Gary, Indiana is an industrial city in northwestern Indiana, on the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
Founded in 1906 by U.S.
Steel, it became synonymous with American manufacturing and later with urban decline as steel jobs disappeared.
The city is also known as the birthplace of Michael Jackson and his siblings.
He grew up in Gary, Indiana.
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- steel townMetal-producing municipality
- blast furnaceOre-to-metal converter
- rustIron oxide coating
- MidwestNorth-central American region
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