This summer, guided tours will be available for the area that once housed wardens, clerks, and the officials who ran day-to-day operations. Hard hats will be required.

The Joliet prison closed in 2002 after 144 years. Film officials say having the vacant prison close to Chicago could be a good draw for other movies, since many other empty jails are either too ...

A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in connection with the random ... with an assault reported on Oct. 6, 2022, on Old County Road where a 70-year-old woman was jogging when she ...

A jail employee - 33-year old Sterling Williams - was arrested in connection with the escape. At least 13 people have been arrested for allegedly aiding the inmates. Williams, a maintenance worker ...

Alexandra Ward, the mother of a three-year-old girl that was brutally beaten to death by Ward’s then-boyfriend, was sentenced to life in prison Monday.

JOLIET, Ill. — A five-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot by an eight-year-old relative in what police believe was an accidental shooting early Friday morning. Officers with ...

Joliet police said a 5-year-old was critically when an 8-year-old relative got ahold of a gun in a home overnight. Police said they were called to St. Joseph Medical Center after a mother brought ...

A 5-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen by his 8-year-old relative at a Joliet home, according to police. The child was first taken to St. Joseph Medical Center ...

A Richardson man was sentenced this week to decades in federal prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl. George Kenneth Orton Jr., 80, was convicted last fall of two counts of sexual ...