HAMMOND | As if on cue with the recent filming of Public Enemies in the region, the John Dillinger Museum near the Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau in Hammond reopened Friday after the resolution of a seven-year lawsuit.

The museum had been closed for about a year.

The facility, located at the Indiana Welcome Center near the Interstate 80/94 and Kennedy Avenue interchange, was voluntarily closed by the bureau because of a lawsuit involving Dillinger's great-nephew Jeffery Scalf. According to a visitors' bureau statement, the two parties created a "mutual and beneficial business relationship through recent out-of-court mediation.

Further details on the settlement have not been released, and bureau officials said specifics will not be disclosed.

The new relationship and the museum's reopening comes a day after Hollywood left Crown Point. A Universal Studios film crew spent most of the week filming scenes for the movie "Public Enemies," recreating the famous escape of Dillinger from the Lake County Jail in 1934.

"I was eager to move ahead in the operation of my business Dillinger, LLC that has numerous licensing agreements including the Franklin Mint. I am pleased to put this matter behind me," Scalf said in a statement Friday.