Authorities quickly hustled convicted mass murderer Robert Crimo III out of the Lake County jail last week and to his new home at Stateville Correctional Center. Surely, Lake County corrections ...

An inmate who was found unresponsive on a transport bus to Stateville Correctional Center last month died of a drug overdose, the coroner’s office announced Wednesday. Clifford V. Nelson, 49, was ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — When film star ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the ...

CHICAGO — The family of a man who died while in custody at Stateville Correctional Center during an early summer heat wave sued the Illinois Department of Corrections, a prison health care provider ...

The Highland Park Fourth of July parade shooter has been transferred to Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill following his sentencing. The gunman who pleaded guilty to a mass shooting at a ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 6, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. 1872: The Tribune reported a Black fire ...

The state is on track to have moved all but a few inmates out of Stateville Correctional Center by a court-ordered deadline Monday, marking the end of an era for the dilapidated century-old facility ...

SPRINGFIELD | Lawmakers are preparing for battle after hearing the governor's plan to eliminate the maximum security wing of one of Illinois' oldest prisons. Stateville Correctional Center sits in the ...

Johnell Smith III, who fled the custody of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice on Nov. 12, and initially refused to waive extradition to Illinois, is now being housed in Illinois' Stateville ...