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Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States. The city is in the southeastern portion of the Chicago metropolitan area and is 25 miles from downtown Chicago. The population was 102,746 at the 2000 census, making it the fifth-largest city in the state. Gary was once the second-largest city in Indiana, behind Indianapolis, a position now held by Fort Wayne. It borders Lake Michigan and is best known for its large steel mills.

Gary Neighborhoods

Aetna is located on Gary's far east side along the Dunes Highway. Aetna predates the city of Gary. It was a company town founded in 1881 by the Aetna Powder Works, an explosives company, which closed with the end of World War I. The Town of Aetna was annexed in 1928 around the same time Gary annexed the Town of Miller. A building boom happened shortly afterward in the late 1920s and early 1930s making Aetna home to an impressive collection of art deco architecture. The rest of the community was built through out the 1950s after the Korean War in a series of phases. The eastern edge of Aetna is marked by wilderness and borders Miller Beach and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

Ambridge is located on Gary's near west side along 5th Avenue. Ambridge was developed for workers at the nearby steel plant in the 1910s and 1920s, and is named after the American Bridge Works, which was a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. The neighborhood is home to a huge stock of prairie style and art deco homes. The Gary Masonic Temple is located in the neighborhood along with the Ambassador Apartment building. Located just south of Interstate 90, the neighborhood can be seen while passing Buchanan Street.

Black Oak is located on the far southwest side of Gary, in the vicinity of the Burr Street exit to the Borman Expressway. It was annexed in the 1970s. Prior to that, Black Oak was associated with Hammond, and the area has Hammond telephone numbers. The community was convinced (after 3 previously failed attempts) by Mayor Hatcher that its residents would benefit from better services, provided by the city, than those provided by the county. It is a mostly rural and "anything goes" neighborhood, with few zoning laws enforced. It is known as the only primarily "white" neighborhood in Gary.

Brunswick is located on Gary's far west side. The neighborhood is located just south of Interstate 90 and can be seen from the expressway. The Brunswick area includes the old Tri-City Plaza shopping center on West 5th Avenue (U.S. 20). The area is south of the Gary Chicago International Airport.

Concord is located on west side of Gary located between Burr St. and Clark Road. It's one of the smaller neighborhoods in the city.

Interstate 90 divides downtown Gary from the United States Steel Plant. Downtown Gary was developed in the 1920s and houses several pieces of impressive architecture, including several structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A new office building was constructed in the downtown in recent years, as was a new baseball stadium for the Gary SouthShore RailCats. A significant number of older structures have been demolished in recent years, but a number of abandoned buildings remain in the downtown area, including historic structures like Gary's Union Station and City Methodist Church.

Gary Heights is located on the West Side of Gary. It is located between Brunswick and Tarrytown.

Glen Park is located on Gary's south side, made up mostly of mid-twentieth century houses. Glen Park is divided from the remainder of the city by the Borman Expressway. The northern portion of Glen Park is home to Gary's Gleason Park Golf Course and the campus of Indiana University Northwest. The far western portion of Glen Park is home to the Village Shopping Center.

Glen Ryan is a subdivision located on Gary's far east side along the Dunes Highway north of the South Shore Rail Road. The subdivision was built in phases between the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. The eastern edge of Glen Ryan is bordered by Miller Beach and the southern edge is bordered by Aetna.

Ivanhoe was a housing project located on Gary's west side along 11th Avenue west of Chase Street. Closed in the summer of 2005, the facility was "sealed off" by a chain link fence. The surrounding neighborhood has been noted as amongst the very worst "ghettos" in America, comparable to the Bronx in the 1970s or Chicago's "Wild 100's."

Marshalltown is a subdivision located on Gary's east side along Central Avenue and 21st Avenue to the east of Martin Luther King Drive. It was developed in the mid-1950s.

Midtown is located to the south of Downtown Gary, along Broadway. This was, traditionally, the original "black" neighborhood in the pre-1960s days of segregation.

Miller Beach also known through the years as Miller Station or just simply as Miller, is on Gary's far east side. The Town of Miller predated the city of Gary by more than half a century, however Miller was forcibly annexed by the city of Gary in the early 1920s. Miller developed around the old stagecoach stop and train station known, as early as the 1840s, as Miller's Junction. Miller Town Hall stands on the corner of Grand Boulevard and Miller Avenue at Old Hobart Road. The Historic Miller Schoolhouse is now the South Shore Center for the Performing Arts and it stands in Miller on Lake Street near the Miller South Shore train station.

Tarrytown is a subdivision located on Gary's west side between Whitcomb Street and Clark Road.

Tolleston is one of Gary's oldest neighborhoods, predating much of the rest of the city. It was plated out by George Tolle in 1857, when the railroads came to the area. The area is to the west of downtown Gary and south of the Ambridge area.

Westbrook is an apartment complex on the west side of the city between Taft and Chase Streets, adjacent to the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, and the neighborhood surrounding that complex. It lies to the north of Tolleston.

Gary Education
Primary and secondary schools There are three school districts serving the city as well as multiple charter schools located within the city.

Most public schools in Gary are administered by the Gary Community School Corporation. The other public schools within the city are administered by Lake Ridge Schools Corporation, which is the school system for the Black Oak neighborhood and unincorporated Calumet Township. Due to annexation law, Black Oak residents got to stay within their original school system and not be made to attend Gary public schools. Some Gary residents in the outskirts attend schools administered by the River Forest Community School Corporation.

Gary Charter Schools operates several charter schools.

Higher education Gary is home to two regional state college campuses:

Indiana University Northwest
Ivy Tech Community College Northwest

Gary IN Area Information

Gary IN Community Characteristics and Facts

Total Crime Risk: 522.0 (100 = National Average)
Population: 84,644
Population Growth Since 2000: -17.62%
Annual Max Avg. Temperature: 59 F
Annual Min Avg. Temperature: 41 F
Male Median Age: 32.4 years
Female Median Age: 37.5 years
Median Household Income: $32,702
Highest Education Level Attained: High School 37.24%, Bachelors 7.29%, Grad School 4.73%

Community Demographics

Gary IN Demographics Summary

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2010 Population Growth and Population Statistics	Gary, IN		Indiana
Total Population	84,644		6,442,843
Square Miles	50.32		35,866.90
Population Density	1,682.20		179.60
Population Change Since 1990	-27.48%		16.21%
Population Change Since 2000	-17.62%		5.96%
Forecasted Population Change by 2014	-7.74%		3.00%
Population Male	38,924	45.99%	3,193,280	49.56%
Population Female	45,720	54.01%	3,249,563	50.44%
Median Age	35.30		35.40

Gary IN Population Growth and Population Statistics

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2010 Weather Summary	Gary, IN	Indiana
Weather Index	37	59
Annual Maximum Avg. Temperature	59.0 °F	62.0 °F
Annual Minimum Avg. Temperature	41.0 °F	43.0 °F
Annual Avg. Temperature	49.5 °F	52.6 °F
Annual Heating Degree Days (Tot Degrees < 65)	6,331	5,534
Annual Cooling Degree Days (Tot Degrees > 65)	728	1,051
Percent of Possible Sunshine	60	57
Mean Sky Cover (Sunrise to Sunset - Out of 10)	7	7
Mean Number of Days Clear (Out of 365 Days)	73	88
Mean Number of Days Rain (Out of 365 Days)	144	127
Mean Number of Days Snow (Out of 365 Days)	23	10
Avg. Annual Precipitation (Total Inches)	39.00"	40.00"
Avg. Annual Snowfall (Total Inches)	71.00"	30.00"