Andre Warship of North Chicago and Jenessa Gonzalez of Antioch have three significant things in common: peacemakers in the Lake County Gun Violence Prevention Initiative, spent time in jail, and are Waukegan Township’s Coalition to Reduce Recidivism’s repatriates of the year.

A Waukegan native, Warship, 46, was involved with gangs at eight years old and sentenced to prison as an adult for armed robbery at 15. He went back more than once before he guided people away from his youthful path, started his own business and joined the peacemakers.

“I used what I learned and did to help them do things differently,” Warship said. “I guided them to resources. I gave some jobs.”

Growing up in Antioch, Gonzalez said her life was centered around church, and she never “smoked, drank, or cussed.” She

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