The John Dillinger Museum will celebrate its grand reopening in a new location next week. The museum moved to the Old Lake County Courthouse in downtown Crown Point, Indiana, from the Indiana Welcome Center in Hammond. The celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 22, on the 81st anniversary of Dillinger’s death. …read more.

The South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority’s annual holiday exhibit, “A Christmas Story” Comes Home, has broken the record for the highest number of visitors to explore the exhibit. The previous record was set in 2011, where 33,458 visitors stopped in to the Indiana Welcome Center. “With two days still left of the exhibit, ‘A …read more.