The historic downtown of the Columbia County town was likewise transformed, as reported by Columbus resident Rod Melotte, who has been reported on the pandemonium around the town on the first day of shooting, much of it revolving around crowds of gawkers hoping to catch a glimpse of Depp. The transformation and public interest in the set are similar to that seen in Columbus, albeit on a larger scale. The heart of the Fox Valley city has been reshaped by production crews into an open-air set that will serve as the scene of an infamous 1934 bank robbery in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where Dillinger and his gang passed off their crime as a movie shoot, as well as for another heist in Racine. Wisconsin produced kicked off again on Friday with a night scene at Wittman Regional Airport, returning Monday in downtown Oshkosh. It's back in the Badger State now, though, with at least a week of shooting in Oshkosh, to be followed with more in Madison. After production kicked off in March with shoots in Columbus and Darlington, the Michael Mann film about John Dillinger starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale moved on to locations in Crown Point, Indiana, as well as Chicago and Aurora, Illinois, for several weeks. Public Enemies and all of the hoopla surrounding it returned to Wisconsin with full force over the weekend.

The face of the North Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol is one of the locations in Madison scouted by the Public Enemies production team.

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