Tag: Northwest Indiana
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100 Years Ago, the Most Famous Landmark in Indiana Vanished
The Hoosier Slide stood 200 feet tall, easily dwarfing the other sand dunes between Lake Michigan and the budding Michigan City.
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Discovering the Forgotten Grave of the Spilotro Brothers
Decaying cornstalks. A hodge-podge of wild scrub. The spidery trees of heaven and some squat-looking poplars. A couple honeysuckles.
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David Agnew’s Last Stand: A Struggle Against Nature’s Fury
…on that night in 1835, he fought like hell to stay alive.
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The Hidden History of Al Capone’s Rumored Escape Tunnel
A flat, square hunk of concrete in the middle of the forest. Uninteresting, save that anything flat and square should not be in a natural forest…
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From Las Vegas to Indiana: The Tragic End of the Spilotro Brothers
The farmer stopped his excavation when the stink of decomposition and the sight of bare human skin struck him. He hurried away and immediately called police.
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How Bobby Franks’ Murder Captivated a Nation in 1924
From top to bottom, the tale of Bobby Franks, a young man who deserved far better than being tossed like flotsam into that Wolf Lake culvert, is tragedy.
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The Snow Cruiser: Engineering Marvel or Epic Fail?
When the Snow Cruiser chugged through the open doors of Chicago’s Pullman Company in 1939, it didn’t resemble a vehicle designed by the Armour Institute of Technology as much as something from a Toys R’ Us catalog. The convex driver’s perch resembled a bullfrog sitting on a block. The Cruiser nonetheless grabbed national headlines: ugly…
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Al Capone’s Associate: The Rise and Fall of Mike Carrozzo, Part I
Carrozzo’s greatest pride wasn’t his wealth or the land or the dairy business, but what he saw as his ticket to social mobility: his racing stable.
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Al Capone’s Associate: The Rise and Fall of Mike Carrozzo, Part II
Park crew had attempted to cut back the dense weeds surrounding the stable’s perimeter, but after burning through a half-dozen heavy-duty trimmer blades
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