Decades of population decline and economic hardship have left some of Gary’s most iconic buildings abandoned and slowly deteriorating. The city’s abundance of crumbling facades has shaped its reputation in popular culture — City Methodist Church, which closed in 1975 and has spent decades open to the elements, has been used as a filming location for several movies and television shows that .
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