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Little Okaw Valley Conference
The Little Okaw Valley Conference is a high school conference in central Illinois, in the United States. The conference participates in athletics and activities in the Illinois High School Association. The conference comprises five small public high schools with enrollments between 80 and 270 students in Coles, Champaign, Douglas, Moultrie, and Piatt counties. History Also known as the LOVC, the Little Okaw Valley Conference was founded in 1970 with schools from Arthur, Atwood, Bement, Cerro Gordo, Hammond, Homer, Newman, Oakland, and Villa Grove, Illinois. Seven of the eight charter members were small schools from the Okaw Valley Conference and they includedArthur Atwood-HammondBementHeritage Hume Shiloh, Illiopolis Niantic-Harristown and the return of Oakland High School. This would put the league at 12 schools for all sports except football where there were 11 teams. The number of football teams were reduced for the 1997 season when Heritage and Shiloh began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois High School Association
The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) is an association that regulates competition of interscholastic sports and some interscholastic activities at the high school level for the state of Illinois. It is a charter member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS). The IHSA regulates 14 sports for boys, 15 sports for girls, and eight co-educational non-athletic activities. More than 760 public and private high schools in the state of Illinois are members of the IHSA. The Association's offices are in Bloomington, Illinois. In its over 100 years of existence, the IHSA has been at the center of many controversies. Some of these controversies (inclusion of sports for girls, the inclusion of private schools, drug testing, and the use of the term "March Madness") have had national resonance, or paralleled the struggles seen in other states across the country. Other controversies (geographic advancement of teams to the state playoff series, struggles between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Grove, Illinois
Villa Grove is a city in Douglas County, Illinois, along the Embarras River. The population was 2,472 at the 2020 census. History Villa Grove was chartered in 1903 after the area was recognized by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C&EI) as being exactly halfway between Chicago and St. Louis. This made it a desirable location for a steam locomotive repair facility. Villa Grove later became the site of a C&EI division headquarters and roundhouse. Villa Grove was known for its Pancake Festivals in the 1940s, which drew crowds over 10,000. In the 1970s, the festival was replaced by the Ag Days celebration. Ag Days currently offers carnival rides, a car show, a parade, multiple vendors, live music, and a demolition derby. In 1923, Villa Grove's high school basketball team, the Blue Devils, defeated Rockford 32–29 to win the Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship. Villa Grove's historic rail depot was demolished in the predawn hours of Friday, October 29, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martinsville High School (Illinois)
Martinsville High School is the name of at least two high schools in the United States of America: * Martinsville High School (Illinois) *Martinsville High School (Indiana) Martinsville High School is the only high school located in Martinsville, Indiana just off Interstate 69. It is part of the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville. Students from John R. Wooden Middle School transfer to Martinsville High ... * Martinsville High School (Virginia) {{schooldis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niantic, Illinois
Niantic is a village in Macon County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 612 at the 2020 census, down from 707 in 2010. It is included in the Decatur, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Niantic was among the earliest settled townships in the county. In 1825, Joseph Strickling, a native of Ohio, first settled in what is now Niantic Township. He erected the first log cabin in Niantic. From 1825 to 1840, there were very few permanent settlers. The township's population varied on settlers setting up temporary homes on their way to the American West. The first schoolhouse was a log cabin built in 1847. The Potawatomi Death Trail ran through Niantic in 1838. Geography Niantic is located in western Macon County at . It is west of Decatur, the county seat, and east-northeast of Springfield, the state capital. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Niantic has a total area of , all land. The village drains westward to southwest-flowing tributaries of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiloh High School (Illinois) in Hume, Edgar County
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Shiloh High School may mean: * Shiloh High School (Alabama) in Sardis, Dallas County, and which closed in favor of Sardis High School * Shiloh High School (Georgia) in Snellville, Gwinnett County * Shiloh High School (Illinois) in Shiloh Community Unit School District 1 Shiloh, Shilo, or Silo ( /ˈʃaɪloʊ/; Hebrew: שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה ,שִׁלֹה, and שִׁילוֹ variably) is mainly known as the name of the biblical city which preceded Jerusalem as the central worship site of the early Israelites. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hume, Illinois
} Hume is a village in Shiloh and Young America townships, Edgar County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 325. History The future site of Hume was most likely part of the Illinois Confederation in the Pre-Columbian period. White settlers of the 19th century in the area reported relationships with Kickapoo peoples. In the early 19th century, the area of Illinois including the future site of the Village of Hume and the Young America Township was prairie and thus considered unsuitable for settlement or tillage. Land speculators bought local land from the government (known as "entering land") on the hope that it would become possible to cultivate it in the near future. Large herds of cattle often grazed on the open land during this period. In 1857, the Indiana and Illinois Airline railroad was laid out and graded, although it would be fifteen years before rails were laid. In February 1865, Elzephan W. S. Hume moved to Illinois from Boon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadlands, Illinois
Broadlands is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, along the East Branch of the Embarras River. The population was 316 at the 2020 census. Originally owned by the Sullivant family, Broadlands was, at over , one of the world's largest farms in the late 1860s. Broadlands was sold to John T. Alexander in 1866, and it was broken up upon his death in 1876 to pay his creditors. Geography Broadlands is located at (39.908550, -87.995458). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Broadlands has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 316 people, 122 households, and 88 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 144 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 93.67% White, 0.95% African American, 0.95% from other races, and 4.43% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.53% of the population. There were 122 households, out of which 43.44% had children un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meridian Conference (Illinois)
The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States, to determine a prime meridian for international use. The conference was held at the request of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The subject to discuss was the choice of "a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world". It resulted in the recommendation of the Greenwich Meridian as the international standard for zero degrees longitude. Background By the 1870s there was pressure both to establish a prime meridian for worldwide navigation purposes and to unify local times for railway timetables. The first International Geographical Congress, held in Antwerp in 1871, passed a motion in favour of the use of the Greenwich Meridian for (smaller scale) passage charts, suggesting that it should become mandatory within 15years. In Britain, the Great Western Railway had standardised time by 1840 and in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuscola Community High School
Tuscola Community High School (TCHS) is a public high school in Tuscola, Illinois, United States. It is part of the Tuscola Community Unit School District 301. History High school in Tuscola dates back to the early 1870s, when it occupied the third floor of the Tuscola Union School; the first high school graduation was in 1875. After the Union School burned on October 12, 1921, high school was held at the courthouse. The first building solely for Tuscola High School was opened October 2, 1922, bounded by Sale, Niles, Overton and Indiana Streets. That building was then used from 1957 to January 1969 as a grade school, after the newer high school was opened in November 1957, bounded by Daggy, VanAllen, and Prairie Streets. The high school became part of Tuscola Community Unit School District 301 in the 1940s when the unit district was approved by public referendum. Athletics Tuscola’s High School athletes participate in the Central Illinois Conference and are members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcola Community Unit School District 306
Arcola Community Unit School District 306 is a unified school district based in a southern Douglas County, Illinois, Douglas County settlement named Arcola, Illinois, Arcola, Illinois. The district is composed of an elementary school and a consolidated junior senior high school. The junior senior high school, although consolidated, is still regarded as two different schools. Students enter the district as prekindergarteners or kindergarteners in Arcola Elementary School, which educates the students until sixth grade under supervision of principal Angie Gentry. Graduates of the elementary school move on to Arcola Junior High School, and will remain there until seventh grade; afterwards, students complete their precollegiate education at Arcola High School. Principal Lisa Sigrist directs both schools; The mascot of both schools, is the Purple Rider. The district superintendent is Tom Mulligan; he broadcasts monthly podcasts to his district. 1:1 Digital Learning The initiative of 1:1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Okaw Conference
East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *''aus-to-'' or *''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or " dawn", cognate with Old High German ''*ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Central Conference (Illinois)
The East Central Conference is a high school athletic conference of teams in the East Central Wisconsin area. The ECC was founded in 1970 and originally disbanded in 2007. The conference was revived for the 2015-2016 school year, the result of a realignment within the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Members Current members Former Members History 1970–2007 The ECC was founded in 1970 with Berlin, Hortonville, New London, Omro, Ripon, Waupaca, Weyauwega and Winneconne as the original members. In 1973, Weyauwega left for the Central Wisconsin Conference (CWC) and was replaced by former CWC member Little Chute the following year. In 1979, New London left to join the Bay Conference in exchange for former CWC member Wautoma. In 1995, Waupun joined for football only as Wautoma transferred to the Flyway Conference for football. In 1999, Hortonville, Little Chute and Waupaca joined the newly formed Valley 8 Conference, while Waupun became a full-time member. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
