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Longtime Kendall County prosecutor named 2025 Kendall County employee of the year · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Longtime Kendall County prosecutor named twenty twenty five Kendall County
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  Employee of the Year. Written by Eric Shelkoff, this article
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  is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  by Everlett. Kendall County First Assistant State's Attorney Brenda Carrealis
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  has made it her mission to fight for and protect juveniles.
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  Crelius has been a driving force behind the Kendall County
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  Juvenile Justice Council since its formation in twenty ten. The
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  mission of the Juvenile Justice Council is to prevent delinquency
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  by using community resources to assist at risk youth in
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  their families, and to provide youth the opportunity to reach
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  their full potential. Corrals also has played a central role
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  in the creation and development of the Kendall County Child
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  Advocacy Center. At the center, representatives from different legal agencies
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  worked to provide a safe environment for child victim of
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  sexual assault and severe physical abuse. At the January twentieth
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  Kendall County Board meeting, the board approved a resolution honoring
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  Coralis as Kendall County's twenty twenty five Employee of the Year.
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  She always puts the kid's needs first. Kendall County State's
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  Attorney Eric Weiss said she has changed many, many families
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  lives for the better over the nearly thirty years that
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  I have known her. I've seen it firsthand. Carralls created
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  the Kendall County five thousand Sky Run to raise funds
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  for the Juvenile Justice Council and local youth scholarships. In addition,
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  she has helped secure grants that support truancy prevention and
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  intervention services for Kendall County students and their parents. Carlys
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  is a longtime employee of the State's Attorney's office. She
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  served as an Assistant State's Attorney from January nineteen ninety
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  seven to July twenty twenty three, and was promoted to
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  first Assistant State's Attorney in August twenty twenty three. One
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  of the best decisions I made was promoting her to
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  first assistant in twenty twenty three. Weiss said, I can
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  always count on her. Kendall County Judge John McAdams also
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  lauded Corrals and the work she has done. You don't
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  have any agenda, and you do care about what's in
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  the best interests of the children. He said, you and
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  I might not agree all the time, but I know
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  that you're coming from the right place. Your heart is
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  in the right place. The county is very lucky to
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  have you. The Kendall County Employee of the Year Award
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  program honors outstanding employees who consistently go above and beyond
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  in their work and service to the community.