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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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Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war. |
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David Letterman, host of television's "Late Show with David Letterman," was born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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