Baseball is making a return to the Old Joliet Prison in honor of the upcoming Route 66 centennial next year. The Joliet Area Historical Museum and the City of Joliet announced Thursday that the Joliet ...

The mighty HOT ROD Power Tour and highly competitive HOT ROD Drag Week are back and heading to Route 66 in 2026! The two wildly popular traveling events will stop at several cities along the legendary ...

Next spring, the Joliet Slammers will play a game on the Old Joliet Prison baseball diamond where inmates used to play ball ...

The 2026 HOT ROD Power Tour rolls along historic Route 66 from Illinois to Oklahoma, June 8–12, 2026, celebrating the highway ...

The game is on April 30 between the Joliet Slammers and the Gateway Grizzlies of St. Louis. Peerbolte explained that baseball ...

The exhibition game will adopt the name “The Big House Ballgame” to represent the long history of organized baseball played at the prison.

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CUT 158 owner Bill Dimitroulas informed Joliet's City Council he was aware of Joliet Patch's news coverage and the social ...

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In one of the more unusual exhibitions we've seen, the Joliet Slammers will be locked in the gates of the Old Joliet Prison for the Big House Ballgame.

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