Lincoln's Challenge Academy Graduates 300 New Cadets

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SPRINGFIELD, IL (12/13/2010)(readMedia)-- More than 300 cadets graduated from the Lincoln's ChalleNGe Academy (LCA) Dec. 11 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield. LCA is a military structured alternative school for Illinois' at risk youth operated by the Illinois National Guard. LCA is part of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program. More than $38 million dollars has been appropriated to build a new campus for the LCA program in Rantoul.

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Cadet Salvador Rodrigues 19, of Chicago was one 300 cadets who graduated from Lincoln's ChalleNGe Academy (LCA) Dec. 11 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield. LCA is a military structured alternative school for Illinois' at risk youth operated by the Illinois National Guard. "I owe Lincolns ChalleNGe everything for guiding me on the right path in life" Rodrigues said.