The Joliet City Council has approved a deal to make the old Joliet women’s prison into a haunted attraction later this year. The council approved a plan from a company known as “Thirteenth Floor” which would renovate the former women’s prison, located on Collins Street across from the main prison, for an opening in plenty of time for Halloween....

The Joliet City Council approved a plan Tuesday to let a haunted house company run a new location out of the Old Joliet Prison, according to the Herald-News.