State Community College of East Saint Louis (District 601) and its short-lived successor Metropolitan Community College (District 541) were two community college districts in

East Saint Louis, Illinois East St. Louis is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois. It is directly across the Mississippi River from Downtown St. Louis, Missouri and the Gateway Arch National Park. East St. Louis is in the Metro-East region of Southern Illinois. Once a bu ...

in the late 20th century. The State Community College of East Saint Louis was formed around 1969 by the

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by Public Act No. 76–724 (1969 Ill. Laws 1489, ). Unlike other

community college A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries: many community colleges have an "open enrollment" for students who have graduated from high school (also known as senior sec ...

s in Illinois, State Community College was formed as an "experimental" district controlled directly by the

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and funded by the State of Illinois.Hopkins, judge: ''Allen, et al. v. Illinois Community College Board''
case no. 5-99-0012, Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County. Opinion filed 2000-08-17. Retrieved 2009-08-11. After a public referendum to abolish the State Community College, a replacement college district, Metropolitan Community College (District 541), was founded around 1995 with its own board of trustees. SCC's North Central accreditation was transferred to MCC effective July 1, 1996. That college and district was dissolved by the ICCB effective January 1, 1999, after the ICCB noted problems with financial and student enrollment reporting. A board member and the mayor of East St. Louis sued the ICCB over the dissolution, but their case was dismissed. Its campus is now the

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, operated by a consortium of community colleges and

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campuses.

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