The Joliet Slammers, who under normal circumstances play in the independent Frontier League, will host a four-team City of Champions Cup this summer. The newly formed temporary league will feature the Slammers, who have been around since 2011, as well three new teams, the Tully Monsters, Chicago Deep Dish, and
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On a Mission from God: The Story Behind the Joliet Slammers
When Jake Blues makes his dramatic exit from prison at the beginning of the 1980 classic The Blues Brothers, he emerges from beneath a guard tower atop the east gate of the Joliet Correctional Center, a real prison that opened in 1858. Jake finds his brother Ellwood waiting for him in a