The Exact Spot Where John Dillinger Died - REAL Crime Scene Locations in Chicago 4K 

My grandfather was mistaken for Dillinger in the 30s when they were looking for him. He was driving in Chicago and a bunch of cops pulled him over with guns drawn thinking it was him. Crazy!

I am proud to say I was one of the architects who worked on the renovation of the theater in the early 2000s. I was in that place doing measurements and seeing the old history. Amazing place.

In case you did not get to go inside, the very seat that Dillinger sat in the night he was killed has a hard seat back, rather than the cushioned ones...it is displayed inside the Theatre

My uncle was a young man working in Chicago at the time, his rooms were not far from the Biograph. Word of the shooting going down spread like wildfire, and he rushed, along with many others, to the scene. Dillinger's body was gone, but the puddle of blood remained. A few women were openly dipping their handkerchiefs in the pool, I guess anxious for a gruesome souvenir, and that always stuck out in his memories.

I visited a friend in Chicago in 1995. Using my Sony Handycam we recreated this last act. I ran down the sidewalk chasing my friend where she then "died" in that alley. We burst out laughing because the sidewalk was crowded and everyone thought we were nuts. Pre cell phone era fun. Thanks for bringing back the memories!

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So much history in Chicago, both good and bad. Great video Michael and Jessica, I love how you present true crime. Continued safe travels.😀🖤

Excellent video clip of tour of Biograph Theatre and Dillinger death site. Great to see exact spot of the 1934 incident.

My wife and I actually visited the Biograph last year during a Chicago crime tour. It was interesting to find out that the sign of the bio graph is not the original one from when Dillinger was killed, but it was the sign that the film studio put up when filming the Public enemies movie with Johnny Depp. They filmed the movie at the same theater and they left the sign up once the film had wrapped. It felt surreal being there.

In my hometown, Michigan City, Indiana, there was always a rumor that Dillinger and Capone had homes in town. Michigan City was a place where Chicago celebrities could go where you could disappear. Now it seems to attract the gangs from Chicago and Gary, so sad

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Great video, as a long time researcher of the 1933-34 Crime Wave, this is one of many places I want to visit in person. Today that area looks so ordinary, any passerby wouldn’t even have the slightest idea that the most notorious bank robber that America ever knew, took his last breaths on that sidewalk.

Another Chicago legend is that the alley is haunted, people claim that it's cold/feels cold even on a hot summer's day.

So great to see you guys in town covering and sharing some of our local stories. Love your work! Keep the stories coming.

Awesome videos!! Chicago's my hometown so I know all these stories glad to see a vid on them. Thanks

I'm so happy I found your channel a few months back. It's very entertaining watching you visit historical spots, as well as talk about notorious figures in our history.

His childhood home is located in my hometown of Mooresville Indiana. It still stands today.

I just looked at the closing scene of "Public Enemies" and they clearly filmed Dillinger's death scene on this location, so you also did a filming locations video at the same time!

Great video. Really like the use of actual footage, news reports, and mapping out the site. I live here in Chicago and have always found something interesting about that era and the Dillingers and Capones of the era. Nice job!

Been a Dillinger fan since I was a kid. Been to a few spots like the Biograph. The St Valentine’s Day massacre is “just around the corner”, too. Thanks for covering this spot. Subscription added today.

Actually surprised you don't take a side trip to the jail in Crown Point, Indiana. It's now a museum.

Several years ago, one of the history-based cable channels did a series on many of the organized crime bosses and other (in)famous gangster crimes - their history is actually very interesting. I love visiting places like this - maybe it's my imagination, but they seem to have a certain "air" about them. Thanks for another great story, Michael and Jessica!! 🥰💚

I live in Crown Point, they restored the jail he was in, partly done by Hollywood for the Dillenger movie with Johnny Depp . You can actually go inside his old cell, it was an awesome experience!

Cool - thanks for following this one up, have long been interested in the depression era gangsters and Dillinger was one of the most notorious.

Great video, as always! Fun fact, Dillinger had the same celebrity status then as he does now. After the shooting, many passersby dipped handkerchiefs and scraps of newspaper in his blood.

Absolutely love your channel! Cannot believe it took me so long to come across it. Thank you and keep up the great work!

Been there before thank you all for the video. Also been to Dillingers grave. You all were only about 60 miles north of me. Would like to meet you all one day and talk. Love the channel. Safe travels and God bless you all.

Thanks for another outstanding video featuring Midwest crime history. You always do such a wonderful job-your personal enthusiasm and knowledge of history really make your stories come alive in a special way. Ever thought of covering the Chicago story of Bobby Franks (victim of Leopold and Loeb)? Happy Halloween!

The image in the mural was BEFORE his plastic surgery from his last booking photo. The only image they have of him after the facelift is his autopsy photo and death mask.

Great video Very interesting Thanks for taking the time to do it

I just so happened to be on that street in June of 2008. They were filming Public Enemies at the time. It was so cool how they had that entire street setup. They made all the buildings look old and period correct. They put facades on them and had modern stores like a Subway restaurant with a fake windowfront with old items in it. They had the Subway signs up when the place was open for business during the day and then they'd pull em down when they were filming at night. The street was lined with rubber mats that looked like cobblestones. I remember driving by the street at night and they had a whole bunch of old cars driving on it.

This is funny John was my Grandmother’s cousin. Still to this day their is a lot of conflicting stories about if he was actually killed.. Alot of cool family stories and alot of strange things that happened after his supposed death that only he could’ve done… but still cool video 👍

I love this video. Well pretty much anything related to Dillinger really sparks my interest. It would be sweet if you ever have the chance to go to his grave and do a video, if he is actually the one buried there.

I remember as a kid my mother use to read those true crime magazines and she was really fascinated with John Dillinger. She passed away in 2009. Thanks for the upload brings back good memories.

This is an interesting one. I enjoy that you take us with you when you travel through time! TY

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We were at The Biograph Theater in 1984 for the 50th anniversary of John Dillinger's death. They had actors dressed up & recreated his last moments. Dillinger wasn't a gangster he was a bank robber.

Just like the memories I have from one of your latest videos, the Married with Children video, I loved that show and was excited every week for the new one to come out. I feel the same excitement waiting for your next video and believe you are creating the same type of classic for me that I will remember and look back on one day. Thank you as always for all you guys do.

Awesome video! I never knew anything about any of this, even though I knew about him just in name only. Thank you guys for teaching me more about history and true crime than school. Happy Halloween!!!! 👻

This video was very interesting. I remember when I was young I heard about John Dillinger and Al Capone and all the others. But I never knew where John Dillinger died. Thanks for doing this video

Please do more of Chicago history! Absolutely love it! Thank you for covering John Dillinger! ❤

Hi guys! Love your video, love your channel, love, love your stories + narration, love baby ghoul! I binged watched almost every single one of your videos when I first stumbled upon your channel! 🎉❤ Keep up the good work😋

Thank you for another incredible video on another notorious event in history. To still see where these events occurred is truely incredible and relatively untouched 🙏

So awesome that you were there, I've been to the spot and various other places. Thank you for doing this video!!

if you ever go back to chicago, another famous local case is the murder of bobby franks by two teenagers, leopold and loeb. i’ve been reading a lot about them the past couple of months. it might be something you’re interested in.

Chicago has a lot of amazing history! Thank you for your documentation.

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Yet another groovy-awesome Grimm life adventure to go with the daily recommended dose of coffee😁☕ Keep up the fantastic work, happy holidays!!🎄🎃✌

My grandma was deep in that world ..but in Wisconsin. Anyway she didn’t like Dillinger she said Capone was a businessman Dillinger was a thief.

Love the stories about John Dillinger. 🥰 This was a really fun one with seeing y'all there to tell the final hour of his life. 🎃

Thank you - another awesome video. Always intelligent and informative.

Great video guys love your content as always keep up the hard work

Love your videos, very entertaining and learning experience thank you for the effort you both put into each video.

Fascinating details!! Cool to see the Biograph theatre is still there!! Hope no chain type store replaces it!! Awesome video as always Grimmlife!!🙏🏽👍🎃🍿

Hey guys. I'm a medic in Indianapolis. I have a few places I think you should check out. Really good stuff. Hope you're still in the Midwest.

Interesting story about Dillinger.... Amazing people of the day put these criminals on a pedestal-- what a time!... great mini-Episode, GriMMs!.... Thanks again, for taking us along, again..... :^)"""""""

Another great history video, I really enjoyed it. Hope you guys stay warm, safe travels and Happy Halloween 🎃👻💕😊

Thank you so much for this gem of a video! Very cool to wake up to! Nice job...!

Welcome to Chicago, guys! Been enjoying the vids...

Another great video. Best wishes from England.

Soooo excited y'all did this one!! I said in a previous video love all the sleuthing y'all have been doing. 💀 Grimm Life Detecitive💀

Very cool glad I got the chance to watch this episode and see the real spot where it all went down thank you Grimm life collective 👻👻

I really enjoy the walk through history with you guys!!! 🤘🏻

Thank you for sharing a story of my city! Enjoy your stay here!

Fascinating vlog guys. You ALWAYS have the BEST content!

Love it!!!! Thank you two for taking me to your adventures! I need to visit that ally I born and raise in Chicago! Happy Halloween 🎃 ❤

Another amazing video! Thank you

Another gripping video love the photo montage .

Being from Indiana, we have 2 heroes. John Dillinger and James Dean.

Love your channel. Great work 😎👍🏼

Love your channel dude, lv from the UK.

Great video guys thankyou I watched Johnny Depp public enemy number one and it was good the John dillinger story fascinated me,you guys do such a good job with your videos always interesting thankyou so much

Thank you for these videos! they are so cool :)

Thanks for posting John Dillinger, he's my all time favorite. Please keep up the great work on all things dark and evil. Happy Halloween!!!!!

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Grimm life collective how foolish of me to have never subscribed! I'm honored to have been noticed and have my comments liked I really love you guys 💖💖 been here since February so still kind of new

Welcome to Chicago. I always have been in awe for the death mask they made of him. Short but sweet video.

8:08 I love when people do this, you got it pretty perfect, so awesome! Please tell me you took in a show there.

Great video! I read that there is a mistery about his grave, that it’s not sure his body is there down.. and a far member of his family had try to resumed the body but it was impossible (I think burocratics problems) he never had the permission ..

Great video

Loved this video !! I've read a lot about Dillinger so this was a real treat . If you guys are still in Chicago you may want to visit Barrington ( Just outside Chicago ) It's where George " Baby Face " Nelson had his last showdown with the FBI . There's a plaque at the site of the gun battle .

I really love when you do these kinds of videos. And would love to see one about Al Capone. Maybe you guys visiting Alcatraz. Much love to you and Jessica

Great Video, very educational, love you guys

My father loved the story, sure appreciate you guy's showing us this! We heard but never seen except old news pictures and suposed film...Lady in Red lol Mike be worried if Jessica puts on a Red dress and wants to see a old movie! 😅😊 A awesome vlog and you captured it all Ty so very much! Keep up the great content Luv&Peace Sean&family Cheers!

I'm with you guys, Halloween is 365 days long. Thanks for sharing this, I didn't know the theater still stood. I wrote a term paper on him in my high school history class.

Great video! And as always Happy Halloween 🎃

Soo glad you covered this!!! Very interesting, informative and thorough!! You ghouls are the best 😊🎃☠️

Great video, thanks again 👍

Good stuff...Thanks for sharing!!!!

Hey guys! BEFORE YOU LEAVE CHICAGO, PLEASE READ!!! I absolutely loved the series of vids u guys have been doing in Chicago! I grew up in the area (almost 43 years next month) & I have been to bachelors grove a few times, I helped do some work on the remodel of the biograph, went on a field trip to st casimir cemetery, & I've heard all sorts of stories & details about the area! You did excellent work & research!! I love how you're able to linenup shots with old photographs!!! (One of my favorite aspects, actually!) But what I am REALLY wondering about, is if you've ever heard of any of the stories surrounding the Mineola (pronounced: minnie-o-la) Bay Hotel? It's been documented as one of THE OLDEST buildings left still standing in Illinois! Rumor has it, that not only was Capone known for frequenting the place, but the St. Valentine's day massacre may have been (was) plotted there, & that there had been a retaliatory shooting there, killing a few "people" inside, as result of said massacre! It was def a frequent hangout for Capone & his guys who were doing land developments in the surrounding areas outside of certain legal jurisdictions, or even for when he [Capone] was just looking for a place out in the woods to "get away" -as the "historians" of the area would have it! 😉 (Although, those woods have mostly all long since been developed by now! Lol!) The Mineola Bay Hotel is\was dedicated a historical landmark, & that "landmark", as abandoned looking as it may be, is barely still standing! -condemned & boarded up many years ago! (Probably not even safe to go inside of anymore either? -I never tried to go in! -ironically enough! Lol!) There are also a few other ghost stories about the upper hotel aspect of the place, on top of the mob stories, so it & its legend is chocked full of "history"! There are currently rumors circulating again about having to tear it down soon, so I thought that if you were still near Chicago, being the history buffs that you are, you might want to come check out another cool, old, worn down, abandoned looking piece of Chicagoland area history, before it eventually falls prey & is lost & gone forever! Not a lot of people have done vids on this place, let alone truly covered the place & its history as "in-depth" as you guys could! -I truly believe you guys could really give it some great coverage! Heck once I learned about the place I was was surprised to find any info at all on the place! It got shut down before everything started really being put online! It kinda seems like a small miracle to just to even see or touch the place, to be honest! It's hard to believe it has survived as long as it has! It's sad too, because it almost seems fixable, until you realize there's just too many structural issues! (It even survived a fire at one point, too!) It is in Fox Lake Il. That town the hotel is in & a lot of the lil towns surrounding it throughout the 2 counties between the Wisconsin state line & Chicago, was\is the playground where all the heavyweights (both good & bad) of Chicago came to vacation in the summers, and party & ice fish in the winters! (The Chicagoland Chain of Lakes!) So there are all sorts of cool houses, stories & things in the area to check out in the area for content! & Now that the leaves are down, you may be able to get some really good shots! Esp. if you have a drone, for shots towards land off the lake(s)! There's also a place called Blarneys Island which is a bar that's only open in the summer & only accessible by boat which has a rich sorta mob related history as well! It's also said to be haunted by an owner who lost the place in a card game & killed himself in the back room. I even know one of the former owner lady's! They do boat drag racing on thursday nights from 5 till 7\8... & It may be worth a trip back up this way in the summer to check all of that out as well! Hope you guys are intrigued enough to wanna dig around, and maybe go scope things out! I kinda live in the area there, but i don't really make any content, i just help support the cause! Lol! I've never sat down with the lady who once owned blarneys and picked her brain about the old stories about the place, but she told me a few, & says she has many more! Although, there are a lot of stories around here, on top of her stories, that are kinda "well known" common urban knowledge around these parts! -Idk, maybe Icould ask her if she'd be up to talking about her time there, if need be? 🤷 Either way, -Great stuff!! I absolutely love your channel, and I can't wait to see what's next! Sorry about the long, drawn out diatribe, see you guys in the next one! ✌️

What a crazy story. Amazing he kept running. Great video!✌️

Interesting and well done telling the John Dillinger story. I’d always heard the woman was wearing red, but maybe not. I’m hoping to visit that spot, maybe as early as in the coming spring. Keep up the good work, and continued success.

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Great video I am from Chicago and I never knew that the lady in red was wearing orange Love the channel keep up the great work and happy Halloween🎃

Great video as always 🤘🏼 love the way you guys tell stories. Can I ask what camera you used for filming this? Looking to pic up something other than my dslr just for video purposes

Thanks for another great adventure. Happy Halloween🖤🎃🧡💀

Always great video's ❤️

I just knew this was coming! No way you were passing up this opportunity!

Great work Grimlife as usual 😊Michael Australia.

I love the color of your hair, Baby Ghoul!! Awesome video!! 🔥