Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — ANNUL ANNEXATION. [ARTICLE]

ANNUL ANNEXATION.

Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Taken from Gary’s Grasp. Gary, Ind., December 21. Three Indiana cities, Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago were ■taken from the clutches of Gary by an order issued by Judge V. S. Reiter of the Lake superior courtj yesterday. Last winter Gary annexed these three cities antLtwo towns, and, technically, they have been part of Gary ever since. The town of Miller was enabled to escape some time ago, but the fifty-year-old town of Tolleston was less fortunate, and it is now a part of four-year-old Gary. The annexation of three cities gave Gary more than one hundred and ten square miles, with a lake frontage of twenty miles, extending from the Chicago limits to Porter county. Only the fact that Chicago was in another state prevented its absorption by the new city. Judge Reiter held the annexation to be invalid.