The museum already has booked a 200-ticket block this summer ... put on display in the prison yard when the facility was decommissioned. A plaque next to the cell calls Joliet the “last of ...

As you motor southwest from Chicago, when you are almost within sight of Joliet ... are the cell blocks of Illinois’ model penitentiary. Here, last week, occurred the first major prison riot ...

JOLIET — The Will County State’s Attorney ... Severado’s entire existence will now be staring at the cold blank walls of a prison cell.” The sentence includes 11 years in prison for ...

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JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- A shelter in place has been lifted in Joliet after a 911 call on Wednesday, police said. The investigation began at about 8:43 a.m. when a man called 911 in the 5500-block of ...