Overshadowed by Gary | Lake Station, Indiana

Lake Station, Indiana (formerly East Gary) sits in Gary’s shadow and has one of the strangest identity crises of any city in the Region. Once tied to Gary’s rise and fall in the steel industry, Lake Station today is a lower-middle-class community dealing with economic challenges, flooding, and long commutes. In this video, I cover its history, what life is like here now, and give it a full Chris Livability Score.