clipped from: travel.nytimes.com 
The Barker Lake Lodge, center, after a 1934 raid to capture the Dillinger gang, where a window still has bullet holes right. Gangster mementos, left, at the Barker Lake Lodge.
WISCONSIN’S quiet beauty and small-town culture have made it popular with stressed-out Chicagoans desperate for a break. But in the 1920s and ’30s it offered a different kind of getaway for harried Midwesterners.
For bad guys on the lam, Wisconsin was once the refuge of choice. Al Capone, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson all headed for the state’s north woods when the heat was on.
Some of the places where those public enemies sought a bit of peace in their not-so-peaceful lives still exist, and visitors can follow an itinerary from the state tourism agency and disappear themselves down the back roads of northern Wisconsin for a few days.