Continuing our Dillinger series in honor of Johnny Depp coming to Chicago to start as Dillinger in “Public Enemies,” here a bit on our very favorite piece of Dillinger lore. In a 2008 post, I noted that to break out… (READ MORE)
Few of the older hotels in town have never had a murder – most of them have played host to at least one. The Drake had the “woman in black” murder that we wrote about here a month or so… (READ MORE)
Last night, we had something on the tour that sure doesn’t happen every day: A Johnny Depp sighting. One of the blocks down which we often travel has been rebuilt to look about as it did in 1934 for the… (READ MORE)
Continuing our Dillinger series in honor of Johnny Depp coming to Chicago to start as Dillinger in “Public Enemies,” here a bit on our very favorite piece of Dillinger lore. In the last post, I noted that to break out… (READ MORE)
In honor of Johnny Depp coming to town to film a Dillinger movie, Public Enemies, here’s a post about John Dillinger’s great escape. In 1934, Dillinger, America’s favorite bank robber, was imprisoned in Indiana, awaiting trial and a sure death… (READ MORE)