Gary

City and port in northwestern Indiana, USA, on the southern shore of Lake Michigan; population (2000) 102,700. Gary was once one of the largest steel producers in the world and steel is still an important industry, but cutbacks in steel production in the mid–late 20th century left the city economically depressed. It has since developed into a general manufacturing city, with harbour facilities and industrial plants lining the lakeshore.

It contains the steel and cement works of the US Steel Corporation (opened in 1905, now USX Corporation) and was named after E H Gary (1846–1927), the chair of US Steel. Gary is the seat of Indiana University Northwest (1922).