Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep students and staff gather under a balloon arch celebrating the school’s 20th anniversary in Waukegan. (Steve Sadin/For the Lake County News-Sun) ...

The Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep project is on track to start construction by spring 2017, beginning with interior conversions and cutting skylights.

This week, students of Waukegan’s Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep officially moved into their new—and unorthodox—campus inside a converted Kmart store. Designed by Chicago-based Juan ...

After many months of planning and fundraising, a project to convert an empty Waukegan, Illinois Kmart store into a new campus for Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep is underway. With preliminary ...

Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep in Waukegan has one entrance requirement — that students come from a low-income family — and a primary goal — getting students accepted to a four-year ...