<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7d8d0942-8e6c-4215-af52-dafe6f4d8778/A2F33AD5-838E-4A91-92B4-DD9AB99D1436/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/" href="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/" style="font-size: 11px;">thomko.squarespace.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><DIV id="pageHeaderWrapper"><DIV id="pageHeader"><H1 id="siteTitle"><A href="http://thomko.squarespace.com/">Thomko Petro Chemical Blog</A></H1><DIV id="siteSubtitle">Northwest Indiana Minority Distributor Petro Chemicals/Petroleum</DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><P align="center"><SPAN><STRONG>Gary</STRONG>, <STRONG>Indiana</STRONG> - Home of <STRONG>Thomko Petro Chemical </STRONG></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><STRONG>City on the Rebound. . . .  GARY is the Hub of <A href="http://www.northwestindiana.com/" target="new">Northwest Indiana</A></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thomko.squarespace.com/img/37A5818F-D566-47C7-A858-1A2A302C15CF" alt="GARY CITY FLAG.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><FONT size="3">Gary is located just 35 minutes from Downtown <STRONG>Chicago</STRONG>, and is often called the <EM>suburb of Chicago</EM>. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thomko.squarespace.com/gary-indiana-home-of-thomko/"><P align="left"><SPAN><SPAN><IMG height="100" alt="lake michigan sunset.jpg" hspace="0" src="http://thomko.squarespace.com/resource/lake%20michigan%20sunset.jpg?userId=30265&fileId=155539" width="150" vspace="0" /></SPAN>The <STRONG>City of Gary</STRONG> is located at the southern end of Lake Michigan and covers 50 + square miles, in an area called the <STRONG>Calumet region</STRONG>, or the <STRONG>Chicago suburbs in Indiana</STRONG>. 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