A budget buffer: Pritzker directed state agencies to carve out 4 percent from their operating budgets and stash the savings ...

Auditor General Frank Mautino’s office reviewed payroll reports at Stateville and Dixon prisons and found employees used a ...

A Derry, Westmoreland County, man has been sentenced to up to 10 years in a state correctional institution for drug trafficking. Indiana County Common Pleas President Judge Thomas M. Bianco sentenced ...

Joliet criminal defense lawyer Neil Patel was unsuccessful arguing that his client Andrew Planeta should be freed under the ...

Will County Judge Vincent Cornelius rendered Tuesday's decision following Elijah Watson's bench trial in March of 2024.

McLean County Unit 5 high school students will now have girls flag football and boys volleyball available to them for the 2026-27 school year.

William Bruce Hoke, age 77, a resident of the IL Veterans Home in Manteno, Ill. and formerly of Joliet, Ill., died ...

LINLCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration volunteered last month to turn over a state prison to the federal government to serve as America’s latest immigration detention center, state ...

Michigan’s first state prison is set to find new life as a farmers market next year. Renovations have already started on the former prison, which hasn’t been active since 1934. Grow Jackson expressed ...

NBC Chicago’s resident haunted house lover, meteorologist Kevin Jeanes, is joined by the digital team’s Alex Fisher, who hates haunted houses, to brave their way through The Old Joliet Haunted Prison.