Even though the music icon only visited his hometown once after achieving stardom, Michael Jackson and his musical family are fondly remembered in Gary.

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He may be known around the world as the King of Pop, but Gary Indiana mayor Rudy Clay says Michael Jackson is the city's claim to fame.

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Even civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson admits that on the surface, Gary,Indiana seems an unlikely location for a tribute to one of the world's most popular musicians.

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Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958, to Joe Jackson, a Gary, Indiana, steelworker, and his wife, Katherine.

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There, grandly, Trump receives such returning players as Gary Busey, Stephen Baldwin, LaToya Jackson and reality mean queen Omarosa.

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In 1984, she covered the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson, John Glenn, and Gary Hart, and the vice-presidential campaign of Geraldine Ferraro.

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