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September 9, 2013

 

At Home With The Captains Of Industry

The economic, social, and racial lines drawn in Indiana Harbor held firm for many decades after Inland Steel constructed its first mill on Lake Michigan.

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September 3, 2012

 

Concrete Utopia

Gary—a city that social reformers had already dubbed the “City of the Century”—seemed a perfect site to try out new types of urban housing.

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July 26, 2010

 

Yesterday’s Homes of Tomorrow

Once lauded as the world’s most progressive dwellings, five vintage model homes have long nestled into the dunes of Indiana’s Lake Michigan shoreline.

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August 17, 2009

 

Beyond Steel, in the Magic City

As the Jacksons’ musical star rose in the late 1960s, their hardscrabble hometown was in decline.

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