JOB CORPS “Show me your friends and I will show you your future,” said Ron Hill of Suda Mixed Martial Arts Academy. In other words, are your friends helping or hindering you? When you’re a teen-ager, friends mean the world, sometimes even more than family. But William Little,...
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Young Men to Bring Their ‘A’ Game to Joliet Job Corps
William Little, 21, grew up the hard way due to his own bad choices. "I come from a good family," he said. The first 11 years, he was pretty much a good kid with a normal life. But that changed when his parents divorced after moving to Savannah, Ga. His mother kept...
Event at Joliet Job Corps Encourages Youth to Succeed
JOLIET — “We can be more than our environment,” said James Hill, of Suda Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Joliet. “My brother and I grew up on the southeast side and there were a lot of drugs and gangs, but we didn’t want to go that way.” James and his brother Ron will...