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Cook, Illinois in the 1930s: 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Death of America's First Public Enemy #1
    date July 22, 1934map Cook, Illinoistags John Dillinger, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Biograph Theater, Public Enemy #1

         America’s first Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, was an idolized gangster who robbed and killed during the Great Depression. Considered a Robin Hood character by the public, in reality he was a prosaic gangster and a cold hearted killer. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents C.B. Winstead and C. O. Hurt gunned down John Dillinger on July 22, 1934, outside the Biograph...

  2. “The Baby Faced Mad Man of Highway 12”
    date August, 1934 to November 27, 1934map Cook, Illinoistags Gangsters, The Great Depression

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) named 1934 “The Year of the Gangster” as the agency had killed John Dillinger, Homer Van Meter, Bonnie and Clyde, and Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd. The FBI now had its eye set on Baby Faced Nelson. Nelson had killed FBI agent W. Carter Baum at the Little Bohemia shootout as a member of the 2nd Dillinger gang. By August 23, 1934, FBI and local police...