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In 1934 Chicago Gangster John Dillinger escaped the Lake Country Jail in Crown Point, Indiana by using a "pistol" he had carved from a wooden block. |
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In the 1830s canals were dug linking the Great Lakes to Indiana's river systems. The canals proved to be a financial disaster. Railroads made the canal system obsolete even before its completions. |
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James Dean, a popular movie star of the 1950s in such movies as "East of Eden" and "Rebel without a Cause", was born February 8, 1941, in Marion, Indiana. He died in an auto crash at age 24. |
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