At the Old Joliet Prison, made famous by the “Blues Brothers” film, the Joliet Slammers baseball team staff were generously ...

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The minor league baseball season is starting and the Joliet Slammers are kicking theirs off with the Big House Ballgame in the Old Joliet Prison Yard.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Volunteer Millers of de Immigrant Windmill will host a program by Kelly Klobucher about the old Joliet, Illinois, prison on ...

The inmates are still gone but baseball is coming back to the Old Joliet Prison. The Joliet Slammers will play on the historic grounds against the Gateway Grizzlies of Sauget, Illinois, in an ...

The Joliet Slammers' name and primary logo, a guard tower flanked by barbed wire-topped walls, is an homage to Old Joliet ...

JOLIET, Ill. -- Behind its massive limestone walls -- five feet thick and as much as 40 feet high -- have walked such infamous criminals as Baby Face Nelson. And movie fans may know Joliet Jake (John ...

I spent a decade at the Michigan City Prison as an adjunct instructor for Purdue University, and then, in a twist of fate, was cast in a small speaking part role as a reporter in the 2009 Universal ...

The Frontier League's Joliet Slammers are leaning into their nickname after announcing that they will play an exhibition game at a local prison next season. Old Joliet Prison, which was open from 1858 ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- Behind its massive limestone walls -- five feet thick and as much as 40 feet high -- have walked such infamous criminals as Baby Face Nelson. And movie fans may know Joliet Jake, ...