Look for the "Public Enemies" cast and crew to descend on Crown Point early next week. And Johnny Depp, starring as Depression-era gangster John Dillinger, will be in good company.

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Actress Lili Taylor and two Chicago stage vets have bagged the roles of local authorities tied to the bank robber's infamous 1934 escape from Lake County Jail. Director Michael Mann is expected to film several scenes on location at the old jail, 226 S. Main St..

Taylor, 41, will play Sheriff Lillian Holley, who donned her husband badge's in 1933 after he died in the line of duty. Lake County's top cop was thrust into the spotlight when Dillinger stole her brand-new V-8 Ford during his getaway.

Holley, who died in 1994, never lived down the robber's nose-thumbing stunt.

"If I ever see John Dillinger again, I'll shoot him dead with my own gun," she said at the time. "Don't blame anyone else for this escape. Blame me. I have no political career ahead of me and I don't care."

Taylor ("Six Feet Under," "The Haunting," "Rudy") has forged a career playing complex women. She's also worked with Depp before. The Glencoe, Ill., native played an accordionist-heiress who caught the eye of fish-warden Depp in "Arizona Dream" (1993).

Ironically, two "Prison Break" vets have been tapped as local lawmen involved in Dillinger's case.. John Lister, 41, will play Judge William J. Murray, who presided over the felon's arraignment in the old courthouse (now the Hall of Justice, 220 S. Main St.)

A Scot by birth, Lister grew up in West Lafayette and earned a degree in theater from Ball State and a Master's of Fine Arts in acting from Michigan State University. The 6-foot-2 actor has been a fixture on Chicago stages for over a decade, appearing in "The Crucible" (Steppenwolf ), "A Christmas Carol" (Goodman) and 10 Chicago Shakespeare Theatre productions. He played a guard in "Prison Break." Lister, starring in "As You Like It" at the Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, has already shot a few scenes for "Public Enemies" in Wisconsin.

So has Alan Wilder, 54, who played a chaplain in "Prison Break." Director Mann has tapped the solid character actor as prosecutor Robert Estill, who famously posed for a photo with Dilllinger. The much-reprinted image would ruin Estill's budding political career.

An original member of Steppenwolf Theatre Co., Wilder has appeared in more than 55 of the ensemble's productions, costarring in "Sonia Flew" and "The Diary of Anne Frank" last season. TV credits include "Fraiser," "Murphy Brown" and "Mad About You."

Da Coach and Da Rocker

Arena football makes for odd suitemates. Take rocker Jon Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora hanging out in Mike Ditka's suite when the Chicago Rush took on the Philadelphia Soul at Allstate Arena (Bon Jovi's team rocked Ditka's 60-49). The Rush take on John Elway's Colorado Crush at home Saturday. By the way, local boy James Baron (Gavit High '91) is back for a second stint with the Chicago team. The 6-foot-4 lineman, a standout at Virginia Tech, has inked a two-year contract.