Chicago boasts (if that is the correct word) of a long history with organized crime. It is fascinating to me how short sighted many government policies are. There is able evidence to suggest that the rise of organized crime is rooted in Prohibition.
John Dillinger was very well known to both local and national law enforcement.
It was interesting to realize I was standing outside the theater where he met his end.
Dillinger had been wounded and had managed to go into hiding for about a year. He moved between 3-4 different states. But, he returned to Chicago in July 1934 where he finally was killed outside of the Biograph Theater (now..the Victory Gardens Theater). His "trusted" companion, Ana Cumpanas, who owned and ran the brothel where Dillinger was hiding, had tipped off the feds that she would be with Dillinger at the theater on July 22 and that she would be wearing red.
Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel Cowley, were stationed around the theater and in the diner across the street.
When Dillinger walked out, he was met by the Feds. He ran and was shot 4 times and died in an alley just a few feet from the theater entrance.
John Dillinger was very well known to both local and national law enforcement.
It was interesting to realize I was standing outside the theater where he met his end.
Dillinger had been wounded and had managed to go into hiding for about a year. He moved between 3-4 different states. But, he returned to Chicago in July 1934 where he finally was killed outside of the Biograph Theater (now..the Victory Gardens Theater). His "trusted" companion, Ana Cumpanas, who owned and ran the brothel where Dillinger was hiding, had tipped off the feds that she would be with Dillinger at the theater on July 22 and that she would be wearing red.
Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel Cowley, were stationed around the theater and in the diner across the street.
When Dillinger walked out, he was met by the Feds. He ran and was shot 4 times and died in an alley just a few feet from the theater entrance.
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