Old Joliet Prison offers tour-goers a ‘ruin-porn’ experience
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A saying made famous in the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers” is etched into the floor of the building that once held solitary confinement cells at Old Joliet Prison near Chicago.
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Rust and decay greet visitors looking down a cell block at Old Joliet Prison near Chicago.
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Peeling paint, a desk and old sinks and toilets remain in cells once used by prisoners at the Old Joliet Prison near Chicago.
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Officials hope to restore the former chapel that served prisoners housed in the Old Joliet Prison near Chicago.
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This four-by-seven foot cell with a narrow bunk bed frame is an example of one of the early cells that housed prisoners until the 1950s at at the Old Joliet Prison near Chicago.
