Lewis University to Host Lecture on Old Joliet Prison Oct. 27

ROMEOVILLE, IL — A lecture on the old Joliet prison will be held at 11 a.m. Oct. 27 at Lewis University.

“Bars and Stripes: The Old Joliet Prison” will be presented by historian Dr. Robert Sterling. The lecture is free and open to the public.

The lecture will be held in the University Dining Room on the Lewis University Main Campus in Romeoville. Register online at www.alumni.lewisu.edu/LectureSeries or reserve a seat by contacting Lisa Heizer at (815) 836-5545 or heizerli@lewisu.edu by Oct. 24.

Sterling was born and educated in Joliet, Illinois. The alumnus of Joliet Township High School received a bachelor’s degree in history from Wheaton College in 1964. He earned master’s degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Civil War history in 1974 from Northern Illinois University. Sterling served as history faculty at Joliet Junior College and served as Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department for 30 years before retirement. In 2011, the author of a number of books on Joliet and Will County donated the core of his regional history collection to the Howard and Lois Adelmann Regional History Collection at Lewis University.

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