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Born 7 July 1966, Elgin, Illinois · raised at Chesterton, Indiana
Tested in the people file, carried here at pointer size: a travel-content site states flatly that the comedian Jim Gaffigan "was born in Mishawaka," and the claim is the reason this entry exists. The people file of this build tested it and printed the result whole: James Christopher Gaffigan was born July 7, 1966, at Elgin, Illinois, and raised at Chesterton, in northwest Indiana — "the Chesterton raising is the one he himself builds his act on" — and no Mishawaka birth, no Mishawaka raising, and no Mishawaka tie of any documented kind was found. The corroboration runs the same way from his own state's press: Evansville Living introduces him as "a native of Chesterton, Ind." Indiana's biggest stand-up is an Indiana comic; he is Chesterton's, and this section prints the boundary at exactly the strength the people file settled it, so the claim need not be tested again.
Sources
- This build's people file — the Gaffigan test, printed whole in its tested-negatives article, on the sources given there; this entry conforms to it and adds nothing.
- Evansville Living magazine, "Native Hoosier Gaffigan" (2013) — "Comedian Jim Gaffigan, a native of Chesterton, Ind."