The Joliet Slammers will face the Gateway Grizzlies inside the Old Joliet Prison on April 30 as part of the Route 66 Centennial Kickoff.

Next spring, the Joliet Slammers will play a game on the Old Joliet Prison baseball diamond where inmates used to play ball before the prison was shut down in the early 2000s. Joliet might be known as ...

Baseball is coming back to the Old Joliet Prison. Greg Peerbolte, the CEO of the Joliet Area Historical Museum, joined ABC7 to talk about the game. The game is on April 30 between the Joliet Slammers ...

A semi-pro baseball team in Illinois is going to jail — literally. The Joliet Slammers, a member of the MLB-partnered Frontier League, announced late last week that they will take the field at the ...

Joliet's police chief at the time, Mike Trafton, announced that robbery was the motive in the gruesome killings of the two young men.

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 — A semi-pro baseball team in Illinois is going to jail — literally.

The tug-of-war over the Chicago Bears continues between Springfield and Indianapolis. Illinois legislators filed a bill late Wednesday evening outlining tax breaks for the team in an effort to lure ...