On May 22, 2025, the freshman-sophomore Jones College Prep girls soccer team won reserve champion in the city league. The game against Lane Tech was a...
Jones College Prep student Brandon Barroso ‘27 found an unexpected passion last summer in fishing, and is looking to continue it this summer with the...
Jones is famous for just how many floors students trek up day by day. Seven floors encompass the new building, and six make up the old building. Students...
Although school is out for CPS on June 13, Jones offers a myriad of activities for bored Eagles over the summer, ranging from extra classes to fun student-led...
On May 24, 2025, Jones College Prep Girls Track and Field sprinter Samaya Butler placed 9th at the IHSA 3A Girl State Track & Field Championships at...
Jones College Prep student Brandon Barroso ‘27 found an unexpected passion last summer in fishing, and is looking to continue it this summer with the purchase of a new fishing rod.
Barroso began his journey with fishing last summer when he borrowed his friend’s fishing rod.
“I started fishing last summer when my good friend Phillip and I just decided that we wanted to do something different...
Although school is out for CPS on June 13, Jones offers a myriad of activities for bored Eagles over the summer, ranging from extra classes to fun student-led events and programs.
ACADEMICS
Jones students have the opportunity to participate in eleven classes over the summer, three of which (Exploring CompSci, Civics, and Math 3) are credit-bearing.
Although the other six do not...
At Jones, management is growing more aware and concerned about the issue of drug usage within school walls, specifically in the bathrooms. Substances like nicotine and marijuana are the most common among teens participating in this ongoing issue.
“I’ve vaped in the school bathrooms more times than I can count,” said a junior at Jones, who asked to remain anonymous.
A common sentiment...
On May 22, 2025, the freshman-sophomore Jones College Prep girls soccer team won reserve champion in the city league. The game against Lane Tech was a conclusion to the entire season, and while the win was a huge achievement, there was both pride and disappointment among the team.
“When the game ended and we heard the whistle, I was pretty bummed out,” said Seleen Carvajal, ‘27.
This...
On May 24, 2025, Jones College Prep Girls Track and Field sprinter Samaya Butler placed 9th at the IHSA 3A Girl State Track & Field Championships at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL.
Butler qualified for the State Championships the week before at Sectionals and had to qualify at preliminaries the day before in order to make it to the finals.
“Prelims was on Friday, and the...
Up and coming baseball catcher, Ellis Alexander ’25 speaks on what it’s like to work towards getting a D3 offer at Macalester College. The senior had his eyes set on scoring an offer long ago.
“I started really working for it at the end of my sophomore year. I attended a baseball camp at University of Illinois, Northwestern University, and one in Washington, DC,” said Alexander.
As...
On May 16, 2025, former president Joe Biden received a prostate cancer diagnosis with a Gleason score of nine, the second highest value on the prostate cancer grading system. While Biden’s cancer diagnosis seems manageable, it’s a sobering moment, not just for his administration, but for the entire country. It’s a reminder of the truth we often choose to ignore out of respect: many of the people...
Jones is famous for just how many floors students trek up day by day. Seven floors encompass the new building, and six make up the old building. Students often remark on just how many floors they must traverse to get from class to class, finding the whole process incredibly inconvenient. However, have students ever wondered what floor tops them all? The Jones Blueprint took the important and essential...
Amidst April showers, the true significance of these thirty days is rarely acknowledged: National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. It is not controversial to say that rape culture is still incredibly prevelent in the United States– from our infamous (alleged) rapist president to the “one in six women” statistic we learned in sex-ed, sexual crime is all around us and rarely dealt with in a proper...
