This booklet presents the inspirational stories of 31 people who were served by Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) programs in Illinois. Their stories reflect the mission and success of JTPA in Illinois and illustrate how these 31 individuals with diverse backgrounds--school dropouts, teen parents, former substance abusers, welfare recipients, the disabled, the homeless, the chronically unemployed, dislocated workers--have something in common: they turned to JTPA in search of a better life and left the program as productive members of society. Appendixes include statistics on JTPA in Illinois and telephone numbers for Illinois Service Delivery Areas. (YLB)