Jessica Santini Receives Roosevelt Award

Jessica Santini's heart broke all over again as she addressed the students at Stevenson High School, where she had graduated a dozen years earlier. "I'm six months brotherless," the Buffalo Grove woman said, opening the story of the life of addiction and March 2015 death by heroin overdose of her younger sibling Mikey at the age of 25... read full story

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Roosevelt University Student Wins Top Social Justice Award for Community Activism in Northwest Suburbs

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2017. There are times in life when becoming involved and making change for the greater good become imperative. That moment came for 32-year-old Roosevelt University student Jessica “Jessy” Santini on March 6, 2015 when Santini’s younger brother, Mikey Santini, who was also a Roosevelt student, died of a heroin overdose at age... read more