The Old Joliet Haunted Prison will host a special pop-up event on June 13-14, featuring a haunted house experience, themed food and drinks, and photo opportunities, with tickets starting at $29.

Old Joliet Prison now offering tours of administration building The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20.

But thanks to more than $10 million in state and federal grants, tour groups can now tour the administration building and see what it was like to be a warden in the old prison. Noel Brennan reports.

JACKSON, Miss. — A 23-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for the torture and death of a 2-year-old girl. The Hinds County District Attorney's Office said Jermarcus Kelly pleaded guilty to ...

Police in suburban Joliet were investigating after a 13-year-old boy was found shot and killed an in alleyway Monday.

13-year-old boy found shot and killed in Joliet alley The teen was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 4:40 p.m. in an alley in the 300 block of Desplaines Street, Joliet police said.

Start in Joliet at the Old Joliet Prison —yes, the one from The Blues Brothers. “What better place to kick off a Route 66 trip than a prison?” Brown jokes.

A man convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl in Cleveland decades ago will spend the rest of his life in prison. DNA evidence cracked open the cold case.