David Wilson's art exhibit, titled "Alive and Exhibiting," will be featured on the second floor of the Bloomington Public ...

The Joliet Police Department is now able to implement real-time language translation technology, thanks to Axon Body 4 cameras.

Uncover the hidden appeal of travel rooted in grief, resilience, and memory, where beauty fades and history demands to be ...

As JB Pritzker launches his 2026 campaign, Illinois shows fiscal progress — but long-term challenges on jobs, growth and ...

A temporary exhibit at the Joliet Area Historical Museum uses photographs and artifacts from former prisoners, guards and wardens to show the history of the Joliet Correctional Center on Collins ...

Along Route 66 is a fantastically affordable Chicago suburb home to great shopping, beautiful scenic walks, museums, and ...

Officials say Stateville’s budget has stayed relatively level because of an increase in the population of a reception center on the to Joliet-area campus.

Illinois Department of Corrections Director John Baldwin will join other state officials at the Joliet Treatment Center to unveil plans for a $150 million facility — the first of its kind in ...

Andrew Ortega was found dead in a Western Illinois Correctional Center cell with Joshua Miner, a man convicted in connection with two Joliet murders.

Who, or what, haunts Old Joliet Prison? Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a truly dark history?

The Illinois Department of Corrections has spent September moving hundreds of inmates from Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Chicago in preparation for replacing the century-old lockup.

A federal judge is ordering Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration to move the vast majority of those incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet out of the aging prison by the end of ...