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Constable: Geneva man has kept a journal for 30 years, and he's still making history


Updated 1/23/2021 4:53 PM
Most of us trapped in this pandemic lifestyle can t remember what we did yesterday, let alone what we did last Sunday, or on this date last year, or on this date 30 years ago.
Adam Gibbons knows. The 45-year-old Geneva man has been keeping a daily journal of his life since 1991.
 
I m at somewhere in the neighborhood of 3½ million words, and counting, says Gibbons, who is on track to record his 11,000th consecutive daily entry on Feb. 12. Not that he ever set any goals for the effort.
My mother got me the 1991 journal as a Christmas present. I had kept journals sporadically prior to that, so I thought maybe I ll write an entry and see how it goes, says Gibbons, who was 15 years old at the time. That was January 2, 1991. The next day, I figured, I did one, might as well do two. And I got into sort of a pattern. I found it was good for the mind. ....

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Constable: Suburban cops help Zion felon make up for lost time


Updated 1/17/2021 12:28 PM
The first car he stole at age 13, the drug dealer he shot, the $25,000 worth of baby formula he stole to pay for his heroin addiction, the years he spent behind bars all of that is in the past for 27-year-old Zion native Gary Ladehoff.
That s because of the help he got from two suburban police officers, a Hainesville couple and his older sister, says Ladehoff, who tells his remarkable story in WTTW s ambitious digital series, Firsthand: Living in Poverty, which becomes available Monday at WTTW.com/firsthand.
 
It s crazy. I would have never thought I d be able to call these guys (the officers) my friends, says Ladehoff, who now lives in McHenry with his 3-year-old daughter, MiaBella, and his girlfriend, and says he is dedicated to being a good father. ....

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