Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a ...

The Old Joliet Prison, as it’s known locally, is offering public tours. But the prison outside Chicago is not the Alcatraz of the Midwest. It hasn’t been spruced up with exhibits and an audio ...

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Richard Speck, center, is brought to the Joliet prison Diagnostic Center for processing ... and then killing Linda Sutton, 26, near Villa Park in 1981. He was sent to Stateville, but moved to ...

A Curious City listener wanted to know whether the Old Joliet Prison is haunted. From its beginning in the late 1850s, conditions at the prison were poor. We visited the now defunct prison in the ...

JOLIET, Ill. — A man who works for the ... was the man responsible and took him into custody at Stateville Correctional Center, where he is employed, on Oct. 11. He was then transferred to ...

JOLIET, Ill. — Emergency crews were called to the scene of a large fire that broke out at a scrapyard in Joliet on Friday afternoon. The blaze erupted at BL Duke – Joliet Public Scrap Metal ...

Old Joliet Haunted Prison is put on by Thirteenth Floor Entertainment ... stay for the rides. The park is family-friendly until 6 p.m., then the monsters come out. In addition to the Scare Zones ...

A man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for pleading guilty in connection with the “cold-blooded and calculated” ...

CHICAGO — A Richton Park man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in the ... Also sentenced was ...