Joliet's police chief at the time, Mike Trafton, announced that robbery was the motive in the gruesome killings of the two young men.

Lawyers for the grant-funded Illinois Prison Project maintained that Bethany McKee's life imprisonment is a great miscarriage of justice.

Next spring, the Joliet Slammers will play a game on the Old Joliet Prison baseball diamond where inmates used to play ball before the prison was shut down in the early 2000s. Joliet might be known as ...

Noel Brennan of CBS Chicago goes inside the former Illinois State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Built in the 1850s, the notorious prison was in use until 2002. I-5 completely closed near Del Mar ...

JOLIET, Ill. — Baseball is making a return to the Old Joliet Prison in honor of the upcoming Route 66 centennial next year. The Joliet Area Historical Museum and the City of Joliet announced Thursday ...

The 82-year-old man accused of murdering his wife 37 years ago in Will County was released from jail last week as he awaits ...

The Frontier League's Joliet Slammers are leaning into their nickname after announcing that they will play an exhibition game at a local prison next season. Old Joliet Prison, which was open from 1858 ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois State Fire Marshal says a fire was arson at a closed Joliet state prison complex that was featured in the opening scenes of 'The Blues Brothers.' ...

A semi-pro baseball team in Illinois is going to jail — literally. The Joliet Slammers, a member of the MLB-partnered Frontier League, announced late last week that they will take the field at the ...

I spent a decade at the Michigan City Prison as an adjunct instructor for Purdue University, and then, in a twist of fate, was cast in a small speaking part role as a reporter in the 2009 Universal ...