Erick vividly remembers stepping off a plane at the Texas-Mexico border, shackled, when he was deported in 2013. The group he was with was marched single-file across the border to Matamoros, Mexico, ...

The Will County Center for Correctional Concerns provides free GED tests for detainees at the jail, but needs donations.

A Joliet man who has tattoos that say "Killinois" and "Angel Of Death" has been serving life in prison for the 2020 murder of a 25-year-old man.

Route 66’s Centennial year adding to its legendary stature and the perfect time to explore one of the USA’s most iconic road ...

A Michigan priest who hosts an exorcism podcast is facing charges for allegedly snatching a teenage girl's hair from her head ...

An 18-year-old Joliet man was arrested at his workplace ... in the southwest suburbs last year was sentenced to one year in prison. A federal jury has convicted a Bolingbrook man who acted as ...

"We’re generating ideas to reimagine the site. We want people to think big, think creatively and think outside the box.” ...

There may be some accountability for the family of a man who was strangled in prison by an already convicted heinous murderer nearly five months ago. The Brown County State's Attorney's office has ...

Andrew Ortega was sent to Western Illinois Correctional Center in 2024 ... from Joliet." In a Joliet house on Hickory Street back in 2013, Miner lured two men -- 22-year-old friends Eric Glover ...

NAPTIP had sued the 52-year-old, who hails from Cross River State, for raping a 12-year-old girl (name withheld). Adekoye said the victim is the daughter of the bishop’s church member “who was ...

You’ll also find other photoworthy exhibits, like a replica I&M Canal lock, a turn of the century streetscape, an Old Joliet Prison guard tower and a recently added 3D Route 66 selfie sign – located ...