Gary's Marquette Park wins restoration prize

For its top-to-bottom restoration of Marquette Park's elegant pavilions and natural areas, the City of Gary won Indiana Landmarks' 2014 Cook Cup for Outstanding Restoration.

[@sonofatiger]

I'm glad they RE stored it but was ashamed how a certain nationality destroyed it after the white flight. Because Miller was a beautiful place at one time and maybe it be that again if certain people move out

[@5x7m]

Apparently you don't give any consideration to the economic problems resulting from de-industrialization which led to job loss an insufficient tax base to maintain Gary. Obviously you have racial bias but too cowardly to say it boldly. So I will say it for you... Hello world, my ridiculous name is Anti Hypocrite, however, I'm actually a cowardly, uneducated, narrowminded hypocrite who is racist toward a "certain" nationality.

[@FukcAUsername]

I hope you have changed your views on "certain" nationalities. It's not right to judge a whole race based on your bad experiences with a select few of that race. Gary has always had Whites, Hispanics and every other nationality. I agree it is heart-breaking to see how bad Gary has become with the violence and all but it wasn't all due to one nationality destroying it.

[@FukcAUsername]

It looks great and really love they turmed old bath house into a museum about the Chanute glider experiments and Tuskegee airmen. It's pretty cool when you're there on the same sand dunes where Chanute conducted the first experiments in flight. You can see/hear huge jumbo jets flying above going into Chicago/Gary airports. I bet not many people in those airplanes know below them on a sand dune in Gary, IN is where man first flew through the skies with the help of a machine. The Wright brothers "consulted" Chanute and without his work they wouldn't have succeeded at Kitty Hawk when they did. I wonder why the Wright brothers seem to get all the credit for inventing flight and you rarely hear of Chanute. They received $28 million dollars though and I think alot more could have been done if the money was spent better. Grateful they did fix it up though. It's definitely worth visiting.