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Illinois Department of Corrections. The Illinois River Correctional Institution is a medium-security state prison for men located in Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, owned and operated by the Illinois Department of Corrections. [1] The facility was first opened in 1989, and has a working capacity of 2094.
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]
American Civil War prison camps. A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
Debris is piled at the site of a former restaurant dating to the 1950s at 920 Tuscarawas St. W in downtown Canton. The former diner car was demolished this week. Other recent restaurant start-ups ...
A house on Bellflower Avenue SW, Canton, appraised by the Stark County auditor at $82,500. A total of $64,207 seized in 2018 from the Foxchase home and his accounting office at 3414 W. Tuscarawas ...
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining. In the United States, such forced ...
DeKalb County was formed on March 4, 1837, [3] out of Kane County, Illinois. The county was named for Johann de Kalb, [4] a German (Bavarian) hero of the American Revolutionary War. DeKalb County's area is approximately 632.7 square miles, and it is located 63 miles west of Chicago. There are 19 townships in the county; the county seat is Sycamore.
Local government in the Illinois Territory, and the state of Illinois after 1818 statehood, was predominantly handled by the state's counties, although towns and villages also existed.