Dillinger road trip

This is the Crown Point Jail, a historical photo. The famed bank robber John Dillinger escaped from the Crown Point Jail in 1934, leading the FBI and the police on an interstate chase, before finally being shot and killed outside a theater in Chicago. Here we photograph the restored jail in Crown Point, and the Dillinger museum at the Lake County Visitors Center in northwest Indiana. (Credit: Sam Riche / Metromix)

Crown Point Jail
226 S. Main St., Crown Point

A 13-car motorcade transported Dillinger from a Chicago airfield to the so-called escape-proof jail on Jan. 30, 1934. Prosecutor Robert G. Estill declared, “This is the end of Dillinger.” Dillinger escaped on March 3, using a wooden gun reportedly smuggled in by his attorney. Partial filming (with Johnny Depp) took place at the jail in March 2008; the Old Sheriff’s House Foundation offers occasional tours.

The John Dillinger Museum
7770 Corinne Drive, Hammond, www.dillingermuseum.com.

See an array of artifacts, including the wooden gun Dillinger used to escape the Crown Point jail, his death mask and clothing he was wearing when he was shot outside the Biograph theater. The collection was acquired from the wife of Dillinger buff Joe Pinkston after Pinkston died in the mid-1990s.