COLUMBUS - Johnny Depp starting shooting his new movie, "Public Enemies," in Wisconsin Monday, and a few lucky fans got a glimpse of the actor. TODAY’S TMJ4’s Heather Shannon was one of them. Depp fans lined the streets in downtown Columbus for a chance to see their favorite actor. Click on the link under related content to see video from downtown Columbus during filming, and a glimpse of Johnny Depp. It was a dream come true for fans as the actor worked just feet from where they stood. “This is just an exciting thing,” Dawn Clark said. Clark drove down from Rochester, Minnesota to watch the filming of "Public Enemies." The movie is a crime caper set in the 1930's. Depp stars as bank robber John Dillinger, along with Christian Bale and recent Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard. “We got here at four this morning and we've been here every day,” Clark said. Clark wanted to see Depp, and after eight chilly hours, got her wish. “There he is!" Fifteen-year-old Anna Stover also saw Depp. “Any celebrity that comes to Columbus I’m a big fan of,” Stover said. She and her friends are spending their spring break watching the filming. “It's really cool to see everything changing downtown and Hollywood being here. Nothing ever happens in Columbus,” Maddy O’Neal said. "Public Enemies" will film in Columbus for a couple more days. They'll also shoot scenes in Madison, Oshkosh, and Milwaukee. The movie will hit theaters sometime next year. Bank robber John Dillinger escaped the heavily guarded Crown Point, Ind. jail March 3, 1934, while he awaited trial on charges that he killed a police officer during a Chicago bank robbery. He then drove away in the sheriff's new car, at one point using a northwoods Wisconsin lodge -- Little Bohemia at Manitowish Waters -- as a hideout. A few months later, federal agents fatally shot him outside a Chicago theater. The movie is the first to be filmed in Wisconsin since tax incentives for filmmakers took effect in January. The movie could bring in an estimated $20 million to the state, according to Scott Robbe, executive director of Film Wisconsin. It is one of the most, if not the most, high-profile movie to film in the state and likely will bring in the most revenue, Robbe said. "It's just an amazing way to come out of the box," Robbe said. "To have a film of this size benefiting at least four or five communities in Wisconsin, I don't think there could have been a better scenario." Since January, "Public Enemies" crew has scouted locations, held casting calls for extras and sought vintage automobiles. The movie is a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough's 2004 book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34." It describes the FBI's transformation when confronted with crime sprees by Dillinger, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Lester "Baby Face Nelson" Gillis. Depp starred last year in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." An annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co. put him first in 2006 and 2007 in generating box office revenue for theaters. Scouts picked Columbus because it had good "bones" to work with, Fulton said. The community has been very accommodating, he said. Rubber cobblestone covers parts of two downtown Columbus streets. A modern street light has been replaced with an olive-colored one and buildings now sport old-fashioned awnings and facades. It's all to take this city 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee back to the 1930s for filming "It's so well propped that it's magical," said Kate Lueders, liaison to Columbus Mayor Nancy Osterhaus. Many of the downtown buildings are from the late 1800s, Lueders said. The entire downtown commercial area, including City Hall and the library, is on the National Historic Register. About a month ago, the crew started mapping out what they wanted where, Lueders said. Over the last week or so, they've started making noticeable changes, including erecting facades, replacing awnings, replacing some glass with non-reflective glass for filming and even taking out a light pole because it would get in the way of filming. Crews painted over the yellow lines and yellow curb markers in some streets and painted the yellow fire hydrants black. They even created a bakery and barber shop in the area. They've also hauled out natural snow and plan to bring in their own. Producers are using the bank building downtown to film some outside bank scenes, said Kim Bates, who owns West James Gallery in building. She said they were replacing her door and windows last Friday. She was shocked when she heard the film crews would be using the building, she said. "Johnny Depp is running out the door here -- so really it's a pleasant shock," she said. "It's surreal, even now I can't believe it's really going to happen even though they have a big hole here." Late last week, the city already had more traffic and more people walking the streets to take a look at the set. The local hotel was booked Sunday evening. Though Columbus is already known for its Redbud trees and the Columbus Carriage Classic, which features old-fashioned carriages, Lueders hoped they could turn the movie being filmed there into a tourist attraction. Lueders is already thinking of possible events related to the movie, like festivals called "Dillinger Days" or "Public Enemies Days," holding 1930s costumes parties or creating a museum. "People will want to come and see the scenes they saw in the movie up close and personal," she said. The city of around 4,500 is buzzing, Bates said. "I think the best thing is it's waking up the people who live here who take it for granted," Bates said. (The Associated Press contributed to this report)