Chicago museum to become home to biggest dinosaur

Chicago’s Field Museum will soon be home to a touchable cast of the biggest dinosaur ever discovered, and the museum’s star attraction, a T. rex named Sue, will be moved to her own gallery.

The new dinosaur that was discovered in 2014 is a cast made from the fossil bones of Patagotitan mayorum a giant, long-necked herbivore from Argentina. It’s part of a group of dinosaurs called titanosaurs.

The dinosaur will replace Sue in the museum’s Stanley Field Hall. Visitors will be able to touch the cast and walk underneath it.

The new dinosaur and Sue are expected to be unveiled in 2018 in celebration of the museum’s 125th anniversary.

Museum dedicated to John Dillinger abruptly closes

CROWN POINT, Ind. — A museum dedicated to 1930s gangster John Dillinger has abruptly closed in the northwestern Indiana city where he famously escaped from jail using a fake gun.

The tourism organization that ran the museum at the Old Lake County Courthouse in Crown Point announced Thursday it had permanently closed at that location. South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority spokeswoman Erika Dahl declined to explain the closing, saying the collection would go into storage.

The museum moved two years ago to Crown Point from the Indiana Welcome Center in Hammond.

Jack Laninga is a former shop owner in the old courthouse and said he was surprised to see the museum’s contents being moved out

FBI agents fatally shot Dillinger outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater four months after his 1934 jail break.