Gary, IN news and local guide

During the 1919 steel strike, a riot broke out on October 4, 1919, on Broadway, the main downtown street, between strikers and strikebreakers brought in from outside. Governor James P. Goodrich declared martial law three days later, and more than 4,000 federal troops under Major General Leonard Wood arrived to restore order. Steel jobs brought rapid growth and a diverse population. In 1920, 29.7 percent of the people were foreign-born, mostly from Eastern Europe, and another 30.8 percent were native-born with at least one foreign-born parent. In 1930, the first census in which Gary passed 100,000 people, it was the fifth-largest city in Indiana, comparable to South Bend, Fort Wayne and Evansville. That year 17.8 percent of the population was Black, many of them migrants from the South in the Great Migration, and about 3.5 percent was Mexican, including both citizens and immigrants. Sources Wikipedia: Gary, Indiana