About Indiana University Northwest

Indiana University Northwest (IU Northwest) is a public academic world in Gary, Indiana. It is a regional campus of Indiana University and was usual in 1963.

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, 25 miles (40 km) from downtown Chicago, Illinois. Gary is against the Indiana Dunes National Park and borders southern Lake Michigan. Gary was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation. The city is known for its large steel mills and as the birthplace of the Jackson 5 music group.

The population of Gary was 74,789, as of the 2019 Census estimate, making it the ninth-largest city in the welcome of Indiana. Once a prosperous steel town, it has suffered drastic population loss due to overseas competition and restructuring of the industry, falling by 55 percent from its pinnacle of 178,320 in 1960. As behind many Rust Belt cities, it suffers from unemployment, decaying infrastructure, and low literacy and instructor attainment levels. It is estimated that approximately one-third of anything houses in the city are unoccupied or abandoned.