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1. Gary airport finalizing 2027 budget (chicagotribune.com) — Gary residents should know the Gary/Chicago International Airport's proposed 2027 tax levy budget of about $5.43 million goes before the Gary City Council on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Public Safety Facility on Polk Street. The plan slightly raises spending for salaries and insurance, with officials expecting more revenue from new hangar leases.
2. NIPSCO faces IURC investigation, rate hike opposition and Saturday protest (fox32chicago.com) — Gary residents are preparing a Saturday protest outside NIPSCO's local headquarters, demanding faster storm recovery, better maintenance, and opposition to a proposed rate hike after weeks‑long outages. Local leaders, including a Gary mayoral candidate, are pressing state regulators to investigate NIPSCO's storm response while displaced residents transition from a Red Cross shelter into temporary housing.
3. Trucker ejected after crash on I-80 in Indiana (thetrucker.com) — An overnight crash between two semi‑trucks on I‑80/94 near the Burr Street exit in Gary left one Chicago driver seriously injured and shut down eastbound lanes for about eight hours. Indiana State Police say an Amazon truck was stopped on the gore area when another semi sideswiped it, and investigators are still determining whether charges will be filed.
4. In these cities, housing and childcare eat up the vast majority of household income (marketplace.org) — Families in Gary are highlighted as facing unusually steep childcare costs that nearly match housing expenses, making the city an outlier nationally. Experts say limited childcare availability, rising operating costs, and low worker pay are driving prices up faster than inflation, hitting parents of young children in Gary and similar cities especially hard.
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