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 ...

Now on parole from the Peoria area, Antonio Geiler followed the woman to her front door without saying anything to her, ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure ...

Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a truly dark history? On a cool October night in 2018, Larry Arroyo was ...

JOLIET — The Joliet Police Department said that someone was stabbed on Sunday afternoon at the Old Joliet Prison and that the dispute happened because of a road rage incident involving various ...

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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. (CBS) — A 19-year-old man was killed Thursday evening after he was ejected from his motorcycle during a crash in Joliet. Officers responded to the area of West Jefferson Street and ...

Firefighters were battling a massive fire at a scrapyard in Joliet on Friday afternoon. The fire was reported before 2:15 p.m. at BL Duke's Joliet Public Scrap Metal Recycling Yard near Illinois ...