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March 2010
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Community Blogs
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Gangsters, Wisconsin Style
The long-awaited movie, “Public Enemies” that was filmed in several
To mark the occasion of the movie’s opening, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism is encouraging visits to the many locations used to film action scenes. You are invited to take it on the lam and go on a
The Southern tour includes
Numerous scenes were shot at the Milwaukee County Historical Society Building. One of them was, appropriately, a bank robbery sequence. The downtown building was a bank before it became the Historical Society took it over.
Filming took place at the state Capitol building. There were also street scenes shot in
During 1933, Dillinger robbed a bank in a building that is now the
The entire downtown area of
A wild car chase was shot near the popular Ishnala Supper Club in Wisconsin Dells. Some night scenes featuring gunshots and screeching cars took place at the
The Hotel Rogers in Beaver Dam was chosen to be filmed as the spot where Dillinger was captured.
Visit the Lafayette County Courthouse in
Check out the Watersedge and the French Country Inn, both located in
The Oshkosh Public Museum will have an exhibition, The Era of Public Enemies: A Wave of Crime in a Troubled Time that will run from June 27 through October 18, 2009.
Oshkosh's EAA Airventure Museum has, as part of its permanent collection, the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor aircraft seen in the movie as the plane that officials flew Dillinger from
There are also historic gangster sites in the northern part of the state in Manitowish Waters, Couderay, Lac du Flambeau, Minocqua,
For more information about
The real Gangsters are the Democracts who approved Doyles Budget. They are robbing every Wisconsin citizen.
Geno, your comments have always been dead on, but never more so as this one.
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- Time to buy new hunting, fishing licenses
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