Amazon Show 'Paper Girls' Films Near Joliet Police Station

JOLIET, IL — With so many television and film crews using Joliet to film their new shows, sometimes it seems Joliet has become the Hollywood of the Midwest. On Friday morning, Joliet police closed off several blocks along Des Plaines Street, near the downtown police station, as crews filmed a new Amazon TV series based on the graphic novel "Paper Girls."

According to a November story published by Backstage, "Paper Girls" is a new Amazon series based on the comic book.

Paper Girls "follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate," according to the Backstage article.

According to the website IMDb, the cast for "Paper Girls" includes actress and comedian Ali Wong.

In December, Joliet Patch broke the news that a new Fox TV dramedy pilot took over the Rialto Square Theatre to start filming "The Big Leap."

In February, Patch broke the news that film crews had taken over the Old Joliet Prison along Collins Street to film a new TV pilot.

In addition, there was also a production crew in Joliet for several days last December filming at a west-side house on Mason Street for a TV pilot called "Single Drunk Female."