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 of prison with an obviously-fake gun, Dillinger must have had balls the size of church…
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Gangs at the Congress Hotel
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 ago. There was a really grisly stabbing at the Palmer House in the early 70s…
Like going back in time
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 filming of Public Enemies, a movie about John Dillinger, who was shot and killed on…
The Legend of Dillinger’s Ding-a-Ling
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 of prison with an obviously-fake gun, Dillinger must have had balls the size of church…
John Dillinger’s Great Escape
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 sentence. But he carved a fake gun out of wood and used it to break…