Indiana House District 14 is located in the City of Gary and portions of Lake Station and Hobart Township.
Located just 30 minutes from downtown Chicago, the city has a rich history of accomplishment.
The father of aviation, Octave Chanute, conducted the first heavier-than-air flight in the nearby Miller Beach Sand Dunes Area.
Famous Gary natives include Michael Jackson and his musical family; astronaut Frank Borman; Tuskegee Airman Quentin Smith; writer Carl Sandburg; actors Karl Malden and William Marshall; vocalist and first African-American to win title of Miss Indiana, Kellee Patterson; Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson; world middleweight boxing champion Tony Zale; and jazz greats Sam "The Man" Taylor and Chu Crump.