If we're not careful, we'll turn July 22 into a national holiday. That, of course, is the day John Dillinger, the Calumet Region's favorite bad boy, was gunned down in Chicago in 1934. The day now ...

The much touted and debated plan to dig up gangster John Dillinger's remains has ended without a grain of dirt displaced. What began last summer as a made-for-TV effort to unearth the former fugitive, ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 22, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue ...

John Dillinger was a major figure in the gangster era of the 1930s. The body John Dillinger, who is accused of terrorizing the Midwest in the early 1930s and became a major figure of the U.S.