{"id":59,"date":"2014-12-31T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T22:49:31","slug":"crown-point-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Crown Point Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Copyright Larry Johnston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crown Point Jail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Made famous by John Dillinger.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While exhibiting at a number of art festivals on the Court house lawn in Crown Point, Indiana, I found that one of the local landmarks, was the old jail across the street.\u00a0 I eventually\u00a0created a\u00a0painting of the jail, one of four from Crown Point.<\/p>\n

John Dillinger, during a bank robbery in Chicago shot and killed a police officer and was captured in Tucson, Arizona and taken to the Lake County Jail, in Crown Point, Indiana.\u00a0 Early morning, on March 3, 1934, Dillinger had carved a\u00a0gun either from a bar of soap, or a wooden washboard, (Local legend varies), covering it with black shoe polish.\u00a0 Using it in his escape, an automatic gun was taken from a jail guard, as he made his escape.<\/p>\n

On July 23, 1934, Dillinger was shot and killed by the FBI outside the Biograph Theater, in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The painting became quite a conversation piece.<\/p>\n

Other Crown Point paintings are: Carnegie Library<\/a>, Lake County Court house<\/a> and The Criminal Justice Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Crown Point Jail Made famous by John Dillinger. While exhibiting at a number of art festivals on the Court house lawn in Crown Point, Indiana, I found that one of the local landmarks, was the old jail across the street.\u00a0 I eventually\u00a0created a\u00a0painting of the jail, one of four from Crown Point. John Dillinger, during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,75,12],"tags":[700,705,706,170,703,704,870],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-x-12","category-crown-point","category-indiana","tag-crown-point","tag-dellinger-escaped","tag-gun-made-of-soap","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-jail","tag-jail","tag-larry-johnston-nostalgia","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larry-johnston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}