<![CDATA[Michael Jackson's Gary Indiana Hometown Should Be His Burial Place, Tourist Attraction: Mayor]]>

1.0 link 221585 <![CDATA[Michael Jackson's Gary Indiana Hometown Should Be His Burial Place, Tourist Attraction: Mayor]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/26/michael-jackson-should-be_n_221585.html GARY, Ind. (AP) -- The hardscrabble city of Gary, Ind., which rose to prosperity in its steelmaking heyday and saw its fortunes fall with the industry, sees an opportunity in the death of its most famous native: Michael Jackson.

The mayor is calling Jackson's modest boyhood home the new Graceland, and others hope to use Jackson's name to raise funds for a museum.

But Jackson and his family, like so many others, left the northwest Indiana city behind a long time ago.

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