This building used to host the offices of several arms of the Gary city government, such as the General Services Department, the Civil Defense Corps, and the Civil Services Commission. I visited this location twice over the course of three months- once in January with Ei, and once in April with Inloc and Und3rlie.

IMG_0472 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

The back lot was filled with derelict municipal vehicles, including an old squad car. Naturally some pictures had to be taken with it. After all, how often do you get to stand on top of a cop car and not be arrested?

IMG_1880 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

The main entrance had a sort of grand staircase leading to the upper levels. Unfortunately it was vandalized by a prominent graffiti artist named "Poetry By Boots" who has made a point of tagging up pristine abandonments with her signature hearts in the region surrounding Chicago.

IMG_0379 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

IMG_0390 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

There were various pieces of signage from city departments and past initiatives scattered throughout the building, along with boxes of old city documents.

IMG_0409 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

IMG_0429 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

There was also a small classroom on one of the upper floors. I'm not sure what it was for, but I doubt it was used to teach children- some kind of city worker seminars seems more likely.

IMG_0442 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

IMG_0433 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

Here's a view of the derelict ambulance and SWAT van in the yard, taken from the second story window. There was also a Fire Battalion Chief's pickup truck out of frame.

IMG_0418 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

Across the street was an active garage used by the city government for fleet maintenance of its remaining vehicles. The yard of said garage was filled with dozens of broken down municipal vehicles such as electrician trucks, animal control vans, and emergency vehicles. Unfortunately our attempts to photograph this veritable junkyard was interrupted by the inopportune arrival of an ambulance for maintenance at the garage so we had to make a rapid exit. Still, I was able to snap this photo before we had to go.

IMG_0468 by Forgotten Interstices, on Flickr

I'll definitely be posting more photosets from Gary when I get around to post process editing them. Ei and I managed to hit 14 locations in 27 hours, and you've already seen my photoset from my visit to Midco #2 with Inloc and Und3rlie. Until next time.

The police car and the vehicles are really cool. I really liked the 4th & 5th photos.

edit: period

Yeah that police shot is jokes aha

The GPD demolition derby used to be over by 13th and Massachusetts until the building on that property collapsed on itself. Nice to see it's since grown in the new location.

That school desk with all of those books around is really cool.

I'm digging the window shot...very cool, dude

I always wondered what this building was. Great to see inside it!