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  2. Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    1975. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago (MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences.

  3. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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    Cook County Jail. The Cook County Jail, located on 96 acres (39 hectares) in South Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, is operated by the Sheriff of Cook County. [1] It is sometimes referred to as California or Hotel California, as its address is on California Avenue. A city jail has existed on this site since after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but ...

  4. Stateville Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    Security class. Maximum. Capacity. 4,134. Opened. 1925. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) is a maximum security state prison for men in Crest Hill, Illinois, United States, near Chicago. [1][2] It is a part of the Illinois Department of Corrections.

  5. Illinois Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1][2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois, [3] and its headquarters are in Springfield. [4]

  6. Homan Square facility - Wikipedia

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    Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Coordinates. 41°52′06″N 87°42′36″W  /  41.8684°N 87.71°W  / 41.8684; -87.71. Opened. 1999; 25 years ago (1999) The Chicago Police Department 's Homan Square facility is a former Sears, Roebuck and Company warehouse on the city's West Side. The facility houses the department's Evidence and Recovered ...

  7. Camp Douglas (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Camp Douglas (Chicago) Camp Douglas, in Chicago, Illinois, sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War. Based south of the city on the prairie, it was also used as a training and detention camp for Union soldiers.

  8. Joliet Correctional Center - Wikipedia

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    www.jolietprison.org. Joliet Correctional Center (originally known as Illinois State Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, the Old Joliet Prison, and the Collins Street Prison) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United States, from 1858 to 2002. It is featured in the motion picture The Blues Brothers as the prison ...

  9. Timeline of organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    March 15, 1910 – The Chicago Vice Commission was organized by Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Jr., to be able to bring an end to the Levee District brothels and panel houses. 1911 – A young Filippo Sacco ("Johnny Roselli"), immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, from Italy, with his mother.