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Western Illinois Correctional Center: 2 – Secure Medium: 1,871 Big Muddy River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,598 Danville Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 1,864 Illinois River Correctional Center: 3 – High Medium: 2,094 Menard Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 441 Pontiac Medium Security Unit: 3 – High Medium: 488
The Illinois River Correctional Institution is a maximum-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.
From at least the early 1960s, the prison included a reception and classification center for northern Illinois, holding new prisoners for less than a month before their final assignments and processing over 20,000 a year. In addition to the prisoners temporarily held in the R&C unit, Joliet maintained a large population of permanent inmates.
Sketch of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the proposed Hennepin Canal, showing their relations to the Illinois River, Mississippi River, and Lake Michigan, 1883, in the collection of the National Archives and Records Administration Hennepin Canal after construction The steamer Marion with Rambler in tow at Aqueduct number 4, 1908 Lock 31 Lock 24
The prison also has a medium security unit that houses medium to minimum security inmates and is classified as Level 3. Until the 2011 abolition of the death penalty in Illinois, [1] the prison housed male death row inmates, but had no execution chamber. Inmates were executed at the Tamms Correctional Center. Although the capacity of the prison ...
Here also, US 30 bypasses the majority of the town, intersecting Illinois Route 40 (IL 40) and having an interchange with Interstate 88 (I-88) on the southeast side of Rock Falls. East of Rock Falls, US 30 turns directly eastward and intersects IL 26 well south of Dixon. It also intersects US 52 at a remote location north of Amboy in Lee County.
SBI Route 113 was the name of both roads on the north and south sides of the Kankakee River from Diamond (between Coal City and Braidwood on Interstate 55) to Kankakee.In 1940, the route became Illinois Route 113N and Illinois Route 113S, with 113N as the northern route and 113S as the southern, with 113S used as the western end to U.S. Route 66 (now Interstate 55).
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]