Actor Bill Murray, who is part of the ownership team, also was present at the exhibition game that returned baseball to the ...

A Big House Ballgame at the Old Joliet Prison, made famous by the “Blues Brothers” film, kicked off Route 66's centennial ...

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.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Joliet Slammers' name and primary logo, a guard tower flanked by barbed wire-topped walls, is an homage to Old Joliet Prison. On Thursday, the team played a game at the facility that inspired its ...

Thursday marked 100 years since two entrepreneurs in Springfield, Missouri, sent a telegram to the nation’s capital requesting the name “66” for their new highway. Route 66 became official when the ...

Joliet Slammers fans, history fans, and families looking for some fun flocked to the Old Joliet Prison's season opening Big House Ballgame Thursday.

Spectators gathered inside a former prison yard in Illinois on April 30 as a one-of-a-kind baseball game unfolded behind the ...

The road that helped stitch the nation together with automobile travel turns 100 this year. See what Illinois has in store to ...