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Gary (City of Indiana in Lake It)

a city of Indiana, in Lake It is on the Indiana, Baltimore, and Ohio, the Chicago, Indiana and Southern, the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and other railroads. The city is at the head of Lake Michigan and lies half way between the great iron ore beds of the north and the coal regions of the south. Its advantageous situation in regard to coal and iron led to the selection of the site for the main plant of the United States Steel Corporation, in April, 1906. The city has become the greatest steel producing city in the world. It contains plants of the American Bridge Works, the Indiana Steel Company, tin-plate works, locomotive works, coke by-product works, etc. It has a public library, a handsome city hall, a hospital, and several public parks. Pop. (1910) 16,802; (1920) 55,378.

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