page_title: Illinois Valley Community College
section_title: LPO Junior College
hierarchical_section_title: Illinois Valley Community College / History / LPO Junior College
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial image of w:Illinois Valley Community College.
context_page_description: Illinois Valley Community College is a community college in Oglesby, Illinois. The college serves a 2,000-square-mile district encompassing all of Putnam and parts of Bureau, LaSalle, DeKalb, Grundy, Lee, Livingston, and Marshall counties. The college sits on a 425-acre campus that was constructed in 1972. The college offers associate degrees and certificates and has been accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1929.
context_section_description: IVCC was founded in 1924 under the name LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby Junior College with an entering class of 32 students studying in facilities provided by the LaSalle-Peru Township High School.  The mission of the college during this time period was to lay the foundations for successful careers.  The first president of the college was Dr. Thomas J. McCormack, who had served as superintendent of the high school since 1903.
  On July 1, 1966, LaSalle-Peru-Oglesby College was given a new name. Illinois Valley Community College replaced LPO, and in the fall of 1968 was relocated to its current location on the opposite side of the Illinois River from the LaSalle-Peru area.  The new name seemed fitting because much of the area that the college district encompasses is referred to as the Illinois Valley.  The relocation was possible due to an $8.25 million referendum voted on by members of District 513 to finance the beginning of IVCC.  The first courses took place in the new location in September, 1968.
caption: Aerial view of campus
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