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The Old Joliet Prison offers a self-guided tour for $22. Home of the Gemini Giant, Wilmington will have a flea market from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and other activities in the downtown area on May 3.
Step inside the abandoned Joliet Prison in Chicago, Illinois—the iconic filming location from the hit series Prison Break. From crumbling cell blocks to haunting hallways, this legendary site ...
Now, Joliet Correctional Center is in its last days. One of the nation's oldest prisons, built before the Civil War by inmates from another prison who were literally sent up the river (the ...
The Joliet City Center Partnership (CCP ... beaded necklace at our retail stores including Audiophil’s Records, Prison City Vintage, Black Cat Curiosities, Colibri: The Hummingbird Oases ...
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 Curious City listener wanted to know whether the Old Joliet Prison is haunted. From its beginning in the late 1850s, conditions at the prison were poor. We visited the now defunct prison in the ...
Visitors say they’ve seen unexplained movement on the prison grounds. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a truly dark history? On a cool October night in 2018, Larry Arroyo was ...
Donation Options Search Search Search Dan Aykroyd (left) and Jim Belushi perform at the 2022 Blues Brothers Con at Old Joliet Prison. Joliet Area Historical Museum Share It’s not an earthquake ...