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 ...

Thanas doesn't expect that kind of opposition in Joliet, which has been home to the now-closed Joliet Correctional Center for more than 150 years.

JOLIET (AP) — Joliet authorities say they're still searching for whoever set fire to a shuttered state prison that was featured in "The Blues Brothers'' movie.

Joliet officials say they've been concerned about the future of the facility because of problems with the Joliet Correctional Center. The limestone complex was built in the 1850s, but it closed in ...