Historical Marker
Athenaeum
Historical marker location:
401 E. Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana
( Marker is at the intersection of E. Michigan Street and Massachusetts Avenue, on the left when traveling west on E. Michigan Street.)
Marker installed: 1999
The notorious bank robber John Dillinger was born in Indiana in 1903. He gained national notoriety during the Great Depression for a string of daring bank robberies and was eventually shot and killed by law enforcement in 1934.