Among them are Harry Pierpont, Charles Makley, John Hamilton, Walter Dietrich, and Russell Clark, who will later form the Dillinger gang. October 12: Pierpont, Makley, and Clark free Dillinger ...

1. His Father Tried To Keep Him Out Of Trouble Before becoming public enemy number one, John Dillinger grew up in Indiana, born in 1903 to John Dillinger Sr and Mary Ellen Lancaster. John ...

Follow Dillinger and his gang of "auto bandits" through the last year of their crime spree. This map shows the sites of Dillinger's bank robberies throughout the Midwest. The Dillinger gang robs ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Jan. 11, 2022. We've since updated it with event details for the 2025 Dillinger Days held at Hotel Congress. Nearly 90 years ago, John ...

It was a 80-year-old lesson the FBI will never forget. Tuesday was the 80-year anniversary of the bureau’s bungled attempt to arrest gangster John Dillinger and his gang at Little Bohemia Lodge in ...

Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger, whose gang plies its trade with cunning efficiency against big businesses while leaving ordinary citizens alone. As Dillinger becomes a folk ...