Officials lay out ambitious timeline for closing, rebuilding Stateville, Logan prisons

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois prison officials Friday indicated Stateville Correctional Center could close as early as September under a plan to dismantle the sprawling facility as well as a downstate women’s prison before rebuilding both in a nearly $1 billion project that could take as long as five years to complete.

It’s been only about two months since Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced the plans to rebuild Stateville and Logan correctional centers, citing the age and deteriorating condition of the facilities...