Art. Culture. Politics. This year’s EXPO Chicago had it all. The recurring art fair arrived from April 24 to 27, drawing vast crowds likely close to...
On May 9, Jones College Prep students took the AP United States History exam.
This year, students reflect on their exam, while teachers evaluate their...
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...
Art. Culture. Politics. This year’s EXPO Chicago had it all. The recurring art fair arrived from April 24 to 27, drawing vast crowds likely close to last year’s number of 35,000.
Made up of exhibits from nearly 170 galleries around the world, the art fair has been featured at Navy Pier since 2012, though it has existed in various different iterations dating as far back as 1980. Originally...
On May 9, Jones College Prep students took the AP United States History exam.
This year, students reflect on their exam, while teachers evaluate their instructional methods. Many students said teacher preparation helped them feel confident, some criticized aspects of the course.
“I felt somewhat confident,” said Karina Brizuela ‘27. “It wasn’t total but I did feel comfortable with my...
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...
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...
