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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There may be some accountability for the family of a man who was strangled in prison by an already ... Street" killing of two men in Joliet. The ABC 7 I-Team first reported ...

A Crestwood woman who fatally stabbed a dog in the southwest suburbs last year was sentenced to one year in prison.

A woman who killed a West Chicago man, who was stabbed, strangled, beaten, set on fire and run over, has been sentenced to 40 ...