Waukegan Proud Award given to 108-year-old woman; ‘It’s unbelievable what (she) was able to do in her life’
Willabelle Jackson, a Waukegan resident since 2018, broke a lot of barriers as a single Black woman on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s, becoming an entrepreneur and a landlord in her mid-20s. Now 108, Jackson takes life easier than she did when she was operating a laundry business, living in one unit …