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Population: 2,044 Michigan City is La Porte County's largest city. It's located on the shores of Lake Michigan at the mouth of Trail Creek. The town developed as an industrial center, and later gained a reputation as a popular recreation and resort community. The "singing sands" of the Washington Park beach are famous, and a popular summer attraction. Adjacent to Michigan City is Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and Mt. Baldy, the state's largest moving sand dune.
Weekend residence for Chicago's elite who came to escape the city's heat. Local legend even describes the area as a popular hide-out for 1920s Chicago gangsters like Al Capone and Bugsy Malone in a garage hidden in the sand dunes and a home built in the shape of a gun. The "summer cottages" that line the shore remain as representations of architectural splendor in popular revival styles of the 1920s and 1930s by famous designers, such as John Lloyd Wright .
