It was one of those deals where everybody is scattered around, jumping from event to event, and sometimes houses along the way. The people cool as hell, but city just looks so damn hopeless smh.
One of many places where white flight took hold and left Gary to look like a husk, a shell of its former self. The steel mills are still there but they don't employ nearly as many people as it once did in its heyday.
Roughly 1 out of every 3 people in Gary are living in poverty. Growing up, there were multiple public high schools. Lew Wallace, Wirt, Roosevelt (where the Jacksons and Glenn Robinson went), Horace Mann, West Side. Today, only West Side remains because all the others got shut down. It has the Gary Railcats, the Double A baseball team that has a nice stadium and can get on I-65 from 5th street so you don't have to drive through the city.
Yeah, it's depressing as hell to see whenever I do need to go through there.