TDW 1573 - Exact Spot John Dillinger Died

0:02 look at those clouds engulfing the

0:02 former Sears Tower it's called something

0:04 else now but most people including me

0:07 refer to it as the Sears Tower it's a

0:10 very overcast windy day here in Chicago

0:14 and I think it's rather cool out there

0:17 which is a good thing because I wished

0:20 for non hot weather when I left Florida

0:23 and it looks like by the sky I'm going

0:27 to get my request welcome everyone Adam

0:30 the woo here I was right Gusty windy and

0:32 cold and I am drinking piping hot coffee

0:36 out of a not a styrofoam container but

0:40 two plastic cups cuz that's all I had to

0:43 work with it's my second channel daily

0:45 Vlog Channel feel that breeze it's the

0:48 daily room right here along the sidewalk

0:50 I don't want to get too close because it

0:51 is of the adult nature is a DVD of the

0:56 porno Persuasion don't know why it's

0:58 there but it is

1:00 just chilling there on the streets of

1:02 Chicago lot too said time come pass

1:04 sometime I just pull over on drive and

1:06 just catch a lot of good pictures you

1:07 know I give me a big frame and

1:20 I'm going to dive into a couple of the

1:20 darker spots of history in Chicago today

1:23 July 22nd 1934 just 2 months after the

1:27 death of Bonnie and Clyde another

1:30 Infamous criminal was shot right here in

1:34 front of this theater around 10:40 p.m.

1:38 a movie let out by the name of Manhattan

1:41 melodrama starring Clark Gable and one

1:44 of the patrons that were watching the

1:47 film was a man by the name of John

1:50 Dillinger as he exited the movie he

1:53 noticed that there were agents waiting

1:56 for him out front so he turned to the

1:58 left and headed towards that

2:02 alley and these would be the final

2:04 seconds the famed bank robber would

2:07 spend alive as he turned the corner into

2:10 the alley he was awaited by more

2:13 officers he then backed up and according

2:16 to photos he was shot and killed in this

2:22 exact

2:23 spot right there now this building and

2:26 this building are the same this corner

2:29 lot has been torn down and now there is

2:31 a pizza place that stands there and this

2:34 building as well is different but the

2:37 alley itself is almost identical as it

2:40 was when the moment happened there have

2:43 been lots of different opinions over the

2:45 years about where the exact

2:48 spot he was shot in the alley was now I

2:51 can't say for certain because I was not

2:53 here but I have used my Columbo like

2:55 research skills and will give you my

2:58 opinion by the way there's a sign in

3:01 front of the

3:02 theater telling people no guns remember

3:06 how I was saying that this building is

3:08 not original well I also think that

3:11 there used to be red brick right down

3:13 here and I also believe this manhole

3:15 cover has been placed there since the

3:18 1930s and what is going to give away

3:20 this spot is going to be this pole

3:25 and this pole by looking at those two

3:28 poles and matching the photo up you can

3:31 see the poles are there in

3:34 1934 and remember what I was saying

3:37 about the brick it is now concrete

3:39 leading into the alley and people were

3:41 all standing around to get a look at the

3:45 blood of John Dillinger

3:49 right

3:57 there some sort of mural here depicting

3:57 The Wizard of

3:58 Oz and look across the

4:01 street it's the Tin

4:03 Man what the heck is he doing here now

4:06 this is freaking

4:09 awesome the Tin Man from The Wizard of

4:11 Oz I spilled some coffee on my shirt out

4:13 of the excitement that the fact that the

4:16 Scarecrow is over my shoulder Cowardly

4:19 Lion this car is awesome I have an

4:22 affinity for old station wagons I wonder

4:25 if a bunch of punks live down this

4:28 road or Mr T that's a very colorful

4:32 grocery store it's called Carnival

4:33 grocery I love the architecture here

4:35 it's a pretty amazing

4:57 City on February 14th 1929 seven men

4:57 were killed by Al Capone's gang

5:00 right down there and that date might

5:01 sound familiar it has earned its place

5:04 in history as the Valentine's Day

5:07 Massacre it happened right across the

5:09 street in a warehouse space that has

5:11 since been torn down but the crazy thing

5:15 is this building right next to it looks

5:19 exactly the same as it did when it

5:23 happened pretty crazy to think that it

5:25 happened right over there members of Al

5:28 Capone's gang took seven men right in

5:31 the building that sat right here inside

5:34 lined them against that wall

5:36 impersonating police officers and

5:38 instead of frisking them murdered them

5:42 with Tommy

5:54 Guns wow it's hard even to imagine that

5:54 right right there Casey nice

5:58 stat on November 10th 1924 right in this

6:02 empty parking lot another gangster

6:05 murder happened look at all these birds

6:08 even little baby

6:10 birds Hitchcock would be proud right in

6:14 this empty lot used to be a flower shop

6:16 owned by Dean oion who went simply by

6:21 obanion and Not only was he killed right

6:23 here the building has been bulldozed but

6:26 two other men were also slain and three

6:30 men were seriously injured on the steps

6:33 of this Cathedral the shooters were up

6:35 on a top floor window over here and

6:37 there are some news clippings and photos

6:40 of one of the bodies laying right down

6:42 here it is my belief the stairs that I

6:44 am standing on have been erected since

6:47 that event because check out this photo

6:50 the railing still looks the same and

6:52 right down there is where one of the men

6:54 laid and the police are around him and

6:56 check this out to the right of the front

6:58 doors of the cedral is this pillar there

7:01 is a photo I found of some children who

7:04 are poking their fingers into the bullet

7:06 holes that were riddled all in this

7:09 concrete and there used to be an

7:11 engraving of words right here and I

7:13 think it's still there just the steps

7:16 are blocking it you can see that they

7:19 have put some sort of like filler over

7:22 where the bullet holes were actually

7:24 wait look there's a bullet hole right

7:27 there and right there holy

7:31 cow that is awesome and there's another

7:35 one there and another one

7:58 awesome this is the John Hancock

7:58 building

8:03 Chris Farley lived

8:03 here and died here I loved Chris Farley

8:07 when he died I shed a tear December 18th

8:11 1997 a long time ago and he resided on

8:16 the 60th floor way up there private

8:22 residence he would have walked right in

8:24 and out of there on a daily

8:26 basis and the last time he ever went in

8:30 there was through that

8:32 door

8:45 wow John Hancock it's Herby

8:45 Hancock man I missed that guy look at

8:47 the sunset over there there's like a

8:49 weird purple streak in the

8:56 sky hopefully you can see that it's

8:56 pretty awesome right there between those

9:14 buildings and speaking of Saturday Night

9:14 Live there's another reference

9:18 right down there right here in the

9:20 nether regions of the city the

9:24 underbelly if you will lies the

9:28 historic Billy Goats Tavern this place

9:31 was the inspiration for that classic SNL

9:35 sketch cheese booger cheese booger

9:37 cheeseburger

10:20 here this is the Chicago Tribune

10:20 building and embedded on the side of the

10:24 walls are

10:27 chunks of remnants of things from all

10:30 around the world here's a brick from a

10:32 house in Holland a chunk from Fortress

10:34 walls in CIA Columbia a piece of a

10:37 cathedral from Notre some of Abraham

10:39 Lincoln's original tomb that he was

10:42 buried in right here on the side of the

10:44 wall I'll always remember there's a

10:47 piece of the Great Wall right there

10:49 that's way up there this didn't travel

10:51 too far this is from Wrigley Field which

10:54 is you know right up the road I wonder

10:55 how many people even know those are in

10:57 the wall look at this archway that's no

11:07 joke look at these apartments and

11:07 Condominiums when you get down about

11:09 halfway

11:10 down is where the cars are

11:17 parked so cars at the

11:17 bottom living accommodations at the

11:41 in the reflection of that building you

11:41 can see the

11:43 point of that building and then straight

11:48 down since

11:51 1972 this eternal flame has been burning

11:55 in memory of the men and women who have

11:59 served in our armed forces from the

12:01 Revolutionary War to the present this is

12:04 kind of interesting this Subway descent

12:08 which used to have

12:10 stairs is now only foliage and grass

12:14 there are no stairs

12:16 anymore strange whoa whoa whoa whoa

12:20 whoa they're removing the

12:28 flowers are those

12:28 patunas

TDW 1573 - Exact Spot John Dillinger Died

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