Lenox, immediately west of Interstate 355. All patients were transferred to the new hospital on February 26, 2012, and the old facility was completely vacated and later demolished. Notable people In popular culture In the 1973 Academy Award-winning film, The Sting, the protagonist Johnny Hooker is from Joliet and the film begins with a title card reading "Joliet, Illinois / September 1936." In The Blues Brothers, John Belushi's Jake Blues is nicknamed "Joliet Jake" as he was imprisoned at the now closed Joliet Correctional Center. The Joliet Prison has been a site for many other films and television shows, such as the film Let's Go to Prison, and the opening season of Fox's Prison Break was filmed predominately at the Joliet Prison, at which time part of the prison was still in use. It is one of the settings in Alice Munro's "Illinois", a short story in her collection The View from Castle Rock. See also List of cities in Illinois List of Midwestern cities by size List of United States cities by population List of U.S. states' largest cities by population References External links The History of Joliet, Illinois HistoricBridges.org – Historic Bridges of Will County, Illinois 1834 establishments in Illinois Cities in Illinois Cities in Kendall County, Illinois Cities in Will County, Illinois County seats in Illinois Populated places established in 1834 Majority-minority cities and towns in Will County, Illinois Majority-minority cities and towns in Kendall County, Illinois