Governor JB Pritzker has floated the idea that about a billion dollars is needed to rebuild and replace two prisons - one in suburban Will County and another in Logan County.

There has been worry that the woman’s correctional facility in Logan County would be torn down but not rebuilt in the same area and now a recent IDOC report says it prefers the woman’s prison to be moved to Crest Hill and built next to a new Statesville Correctional facility. Governor JB Pritzker says a long process still needs to play out before any prison closes and jobs and prisoners are moved from one part of the state to another.

Logan currently serves as one of the state’s two prisons from women. Much of its structure dates back 90 years ago.