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Jackson family in Gary to mark pop star’s birthday

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Prince and Paris Jackson, son and daughter to the late pop icon Michael Jackson, display T-shirts given to them by Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson Wednesday in Gary, Ind. Members of Michael's family are in the Northwestern Indiana city on what would have been Jackson's 54th birthday.

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Michael Jackson impersonator Carlo Riley from Denver poses with Rev. Jesse Jackson near Michael Jackson's boyhood home in Gary, Ind., during a celebration marking what would have been Jackson's 54th birthday Wednesday.

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LaToya Jackson signs autographs outside the Jackson's childhood home Wednesday in Gary, Ind.

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Prince Jackson, son of entertainer Michael Jackson, signs a fans sleeve outside Jackson's boyhood home.

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Michael Jackson fans wait to get autographs from his three children — Prince, Paris, and Blanket — outside Jackson's boyhood home in Gary, Ind., during a celebration on what would have been Jackson's 54th birthday Wednesday.

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Gary Ind., residents dance to recorded music outside Jackson's boyhood home during celebrations marking what would have been Jackson's 54th birthday Wednesday.

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The scene outside the childhood home of Michael Jackson in Gary, Ind., resembled a party as fans joined members of the pop star's family for a vigil Wednesday, which would have been his 54th birthday. Fans danced to Jackson's music prior to the arrival of his children and mother at the house at 2300 Jackson St., where the King of Pop, his siblings and their parents lived until 1969. In the days after Jackson's death in 2009, the singer's admirers piled stuffed animals, flowers and photos outside the tiny home.