One of the most notorious criminals in U.S. history — John Dillinger — was killed on this day in 1934, in a shootout with FBI agents outside the Biograph movie theater in Chicago. His trail of bank robberies, murders and jail escapes throughout the Midwest had made Dillinger the first official “public enemy number one.”
The events of that hot July night have been described as the beginning of the end of the era of famous gangsters. Today, there are more than 400,000 robberies a year across the U.S., including 10,000 bank robberies, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Can you name any one of those? And though Dillinger may have been able to make a living from his gun-toting ways, turns out crime doesn’t pay any longer. The average bank robbery nets only some 4,800 dollars, says the Census Bureau.
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