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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ Chicago

How sexual misconduct scandal at Evanston city beaches emerged

Lighthouse Beach in Evanston. A former Evanston beach office employee is speaking up after helping to start a petition signed by more than 50 female current and former beach workers last year, in which they accused their superiors of pervasive sexual harassment, abuse and assault. | Manuel Martinez / WBEZ

Soon after quitting her summer job as a lifeguard at Evanston’s public beaches, a teenage girl privately confronted one of her former managers about the “many f----- up things that happened” at work.

In an exchange of text messages in June 2020, the girl, then 17, told her much older manager “that the major concern with age for y’all is that you could get in trouble and not the fact that you’re taking advantage of kids.”

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