Jacksonville, Illinois

==Education==
[[File:Illinois School For the Deaf.jpg|thumb|left|[[Illinois School for the Deaf]]]]

Jacksonville is home to one private four-year college, [[Illinois College]]. Illinois College is the second oldest college in Illinois,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ic.edu/aboutus/historic.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040919122907/http://www.ic.edu/aboutus/historic.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2004|title=(unknown)}}</ref> founded in 1829 (and the first to grant a degree – 1835)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ic.edu/RelId/607297/ISvars/default/History.htm|title=History|publisher=Illinois College|at=¶1 and ¶3|access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref> by one of the famous Yale Bands—students from Yale College who traveled westward to found new colleges. It briefly served as the state's first medical school from 1843 to 1848, and became co-educational in 1903. Beecher Hall, the first college building erected in Illinois, is named after its first president,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ic.edu/about/history|title=Illinois College: Our History|work=ic.edu|access-date=2021-01-19|language=en}}</ref>[[Edward Beecher]], brother to [[Henry Ward Beecher]] and [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]. Jacksonville was also the home of the now-closed private four-year college, [[MacMurray College]] from 1846 to 2020.

Jacksonville is also home to three state-run institutions, including the [[Illinois School for the Deaf]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.illinoisdeaf.org/ |title=Illinois School for the Deaf |publisher=Morgan.k12.il.us |access-date=June 16, 2014}}</ref> the [[Illinois School for the Visually Impaired]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isvi.net/ |title=isvi.net |publisher=isvi.net |access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref> and the Jacksonville Correctional Center.  [[Lincoln Land Community College]]'s Western Region Education Center is also located in Jacksonville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://llcc.edu/Default.aspx?alias=llcc.edu/wrec |title=Education Service Areas |date=November 23, 2010 |publisher=Land of Lincoln Community College |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209153321/http://llcc.edu/Default.aspx?alias=llcc.edu%2Fwrec |archive-date=February 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 1, 2012 }}</ref>

Jacksonville is home to three high schools, two private, and one public, including [[Routt Catholic High School]]. [[Jacksonville School District 117]] provides education for the city and much of the county with six elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, [[Jacksonville High School (Illinois)|Jacksonville High School]].