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Joliet Prison
1125 Collins St., Joliet, IL
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The Joliet Correctional Center (Joliet Prison) was used from 1858 to 2002.
There is an adjacent parking lot and park with several signs that offer
historic information. The early Route 66 (Pontiac Trail) went by this
prison.
This
is a large prison, but there are a couple of places where you can get
a photo of the whole building. A stone, steel and barbed wire entry
sign was added in 2009 when the parking lot surface was replace and
plantings and flowers added.
The Blues Brothers movie showed the East gate.
A
now closed and much smaller women's prison building is located just
across the street from the entrance to the men's prison.
Photo(s): 2016
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