Chicago Adult Entertainment: ‘He knew how it was going to end’

January 1934: The Dillinger gang killed East Chicago police officer William O’Malley during the robbery of the First National Bank of East Chicago.
March 3, 1934: Dillinger was sequestered at the county jail in Crown Point. Authorities boasted that the jail was “escape proof,” but Dillinger escaped using a wooden gun he had whittled. He then stole the sheriff’s car and drove across the Illinois state line, heading for Chicago. He violated the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, making it a federal offense to transport a stolen motor vehicle across a state line. The FBI became actively involved in the nationwide search for Dillinger. In Chicago, Dillinger and his gang continued robbing banks. When one of the gang members was apprehended, Dillinger was shot and then fled to Mooresville.
July 21, 1934: A madam of a brothel in Gary contacted police officers with information about Dillinger’s whereabouts.

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