1st National Bank & Trust Co. Building (robbed by John Dillinger in 1934) (East Chicago, Indiana)

 interesting place, historical layer / disappeared object

Note: this building has now been demolished and replaced with yet another Walgreens, despite the fact that there were and are numerous available vacant lots just down the street.

Paroled in May 1933, Dillinger formed a gang and set out to rob banks. Captured four months later, he was rescued by gang members. After robberies in several states, he was arrested in Arizona, returned to Indiana and jailed at the Crown Point Jail. He executed a famous escape (using a gun carved from wood--not soap!) on Mar. 3, 1934, and continued his bank robberies. In this year, he robbed East Chicago's 1st National Bank & Trust Co.

The object of a massive manhunt by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he was lured to the Biograph Theater in Chicago (now a national landmark) on July 22, 1934, by Anna Sage, the mysterious so-called Lady in Red. There FBI agents gunned him down