Steve Sadin
Freelance Journalist at Chicago Tribune
Covering politics, sports the arts and other topics in Chicago's northern suburbs.
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6 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin
Collaboration between the city of Waukegan and the Waukegan Park District for a river and ravine cleanup on April 5 officially made this Earth Month locally, but the city’s annual Earth Week activities begin on April 19. Started four years ago when community members and city officials joined forces to arrange a week of events, Earth Week has grown to include hundreds of volunteers picking up trash around the city from the lakefront to each of the nine wards.
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6 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin
As an attorney with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, now state Sen. Darby Hills, R-Barrington Hills, spent a lot of her time involved with cases dealing with children. So, within six weeks of replacing former state Sen. Damn McConchie, R-Hawthorn Woods, after he resigned in February, she introduced her first bill that would toughen laws against people committing sex crimes against children. “Protecting children is my passion and my purpose,” Hills said.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin
Richard Martinez-Messner of Waukegan concedes he has made some regrettable decisions in the past, but late last year — jobless with little more than some clothes to his name — he decided he was going to make the necessary changes to live a productive life. Walking into the offices of the Job Center of Lake County two weeks after his release from the Lake County jail, his life changed quickly.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin
Adrian Parada is a Waukegan High School junior who hopes to study engineering, business or HVAC when he goes to college. He may have found his choice at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, during a Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 spring break college tour. “It’s a medium-sized school, and I like the average class size,” Parada said. “It has a good engineering program and a nice campus. I have a connection to the college now.
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1 week ago |
chicagotribune.com | Steve Sadin
One role of community colleges is preparing students to move on to a four-year university to earn a bachelor’s degree. The College of Lake County (CLC) offers programs for that, and it also helps people like Giovanni Roncone become a firefighters after a two-year course. Already securing a job as a firefighter paramedic with a department in Lake County as he completes his two-year CLC program, Roncone, a Gurnee resident, spent time Saturday introducing others to the curriculum.
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