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Michigan City
Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It is the largest of the two principal cities of the Michigan City-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Combined statistical area. In the Northwest indiana region known to locals as "The Region" and Michiana, the city is about 45 miles (72 km) east of Chicago, regarded as a suburb due to its popularity among Chicagoans as a tourism town and ease of affordable access via South Shore Line passenger train. Michigan city is also 40 miles (64 km) west of South Bend. It had a population of 31,479 at the 2010 census. Michigan City is noted for both its proximity to Indiana Dunes National Park and for bordering Lake Michigan.