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Samuel Parkinson Cowley (July 23, 1899 – November 28, 1934) was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was killed in the line of duty in a gunfight with Baby Face Nelson in 1934 on Route 14 in Barrington, Illinois.
Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), [1] also known as George Nelson and Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber who became a criminal partner of John Dillinger when he helped Dillinger escape from prison in Crown Point, Indiana.
The Battle of Barrington was an intense and deadly gunfight [1] between federal agents and notorious Great Depression Era outlaw Baby Face Nelson, that took place on November 27, 1934, in Northside Park, in the town of Barrington, outside Chicago, Illinois.
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Louise Vermilya (née Woolf; July 1868 – December 1913) [1] [verification needed] was an American "black widow" whose activities spanned the turn of the 20th century. Light was shed on her murders only after she resorted to murdering outside of her immediate family, beginning with the death of policeman Arthur Bissonette.
The village is also situated on the shores of Lake Barrington, which was previously called Indian Lake, located at [ 4 ] According to the 2010 census, Lake Barrington has a total area of 6.167 square miles (15.97 km 2 ), of which 5.86 square miles (15.18 km 2 ) (or 95.02%) is land and 0.307 square miles (0.80 km 2 ) (or 4.98%) is water.
When it opened in 1962, Barrington Plaza was celebrated as the tallest residential complex west of Chicago and the biggest urban renewal project ever insured by the Federal Housing Administration.