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The city was founded in 1906 by the United States Steel Corporation as the home for its new plant. The city was named after the chairman of U.S. Steel, Elbert H. Gary . Gary had one of the nation's first African American mayors, Richard G. Hatcher .
Gary's fortunes have risen and fallen with those of the steel industry. In the 1960s, Gary entered a downward spiral of decline brought on by layoffs at the steel plants. Contrary to popular belief, the losses of jobs in steel are more due to improved technology than to imports. Steel production peaked at US Steel's Gary works in the early 1990s, it just took fewer people to produce that steel. As unemployment increased, so did crime, taxes, and property abandonment.
Gary's downtown is virtually empty. Vacant stores have murals painted on their windows depicting what they once sold. "Painted on the shuttered Palace Theater is a scene from some elegant memory: a ticket seller in a bow tie and a crowd of customers, some in slinky gowns, milling in a lobby." ( New York Times, November 30, 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U)
Before his legal troubles, Michael JacksonFor other people with the same name, see Michael Jackson (disambiguation Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958) is one of the most successful popular music singers of all time. He has been called the "King of Pop" or the "King of music video". promised to build a performing arts center for Gary. It is now doubtful that this will ever come to pass.
Gary has been in the news in connection with politicking over the construction of a new airportFor the wireless networking standard, see AirPort networking; for the movie, see Airport (movie An airport is a designated location for aircraft to take off and land. While smaller airports—often called aerodromes, airfields or landing strips—might includ for Chicago. Because the Gary airport is closer to downtown Chicago than the other proposed site for a third Chicago airport at Peotone, IllinoisPeotone is a village located in Will County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 3,385. The city is about 43 miles south of Chicago. Peotone is the proposed site of a new airport to serve the Chicago area. As with the co, some have argued that building a new airport at Peotone is not necessary, and that money would be better spent on improving the Gary airport. This plan is backed by the Mayors of Gary and Chicago, while the Illinois state government is in favor of construction at Peotone. Tax revenues from a new airport at Peotone would go to the Illinois state government, while those from an expanded Gary airport would go to a regional airport authority, and thus to the cities of Chicago and Gary.
Gary, Indiana is also the subject of a song in the musical The Music ManThe Music Man is a musical play written by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey; it premiered on Broadway in 1957. Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who sells musical instruments, pretending that he will teach youngsters to play them and form a town band.
Gary is located at 41°34'51" North, 87°20'44" West (41.580786, -87.345449) 1The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. These sources are cited within the thousands of articles which link to this page..
According to the United States Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te, the city has a total area of 148.3 km²Square kilometre (symbol km is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 m² 100 hectares 0. 386 102 square miles (statute) 247. 105 381 acres Convers (57.2 mi²). 130.1 km² (50.2 mi²) of it is land and 18.2 km² (7.0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 12.25% water.
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