Location Type
Other
Activity Level
(4/5)
Coordinates
41.416981, -87.365314
Description
The Crown Point Sheriff's House was built in 1882, and the jail was added on in 1926. This is the very jail from which John Dillinger made his notorious escape in 1934. He used jail-issued razor blades to carved a gun out of part of a wooden washboard. He used …