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2. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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   B.B. King's Live in Cook County Jail album features a live recording of a concert that he performed for the jail's inmates on September 10, 1970. A live album Concert: Friday the 13th - Cook County Jail featuring performances by jazz musicians Jimmy McGriff and Lucky Thompson was released on the Groove Merchant label in 1973)

3. Cook County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   The Cook County Department of Corrections, also known as the Cook County Jail, is the largest single-site jail in the nation. The Cook County Juvenile Detention Center, under the authority of the Chief Judge of the court, is the first juvenile center in the nation and one of the largest in the nation. The Cook County Law Library is the second ...

4. Stateville Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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   The old and smaller Joliet Correctional Center, which had opened in 1858 on a site in Joliet 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the south-southeast, was being considered for closure. . Construction commenced on the new Stateville facility in 1917, in what was then an unincorporated area of Lockport Township, [a] opening in 1925 with capacity to accommodate 1,506 inmat

5. Cook County Jail in Chicago under fire for inmate deaths ...

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   At least 60 incarcerated people have died in Cook County Jail, the largest single-site jail in the U.S., since 2017, according to the jail’s data. For Cook County officials, these numbers ...

6. Family of inmate beaten to death at Cook County Jail files ...

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   CHICAGO — The family of an inmate brutalized inside Cook County Jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheriff’s Office.Attorneys representing the family of Johnny Hendrix, beaten ...

7. Cook County Sheriff - Wikipedia

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   Simultaneously ex officio Cook County Coroner [5] Timothy Bradley 1870–1872 [8] Charles Kern: 1872–1878 Democratic [8] John Hoffman: 1878–1880 Republican [8] [9] Orrin L. Mann: 1880–1882 Republican: Elected in 1880 [10] Seth Hanchett: 1882–1886 Republican [11] [12] Canute R. Matson: 1886–1890 Republican [8] James H. Gilbert: 1890 ...

8. College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets ...

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   Classes are held at both the Cook County Jail and the Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum security men’s prison about 40 miles (64 kilometers) from Chicago. During book club, security ...

9. List of people executed in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of people executed in Illinois. A total of twelve people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Illinois since 1977. [1] All were executed by lethal injection. Another man condemned in Illinois, Alton Coleman, was executed in Ohio. [2] Capital punishment in Illinois was abolished in 2011.