Classes will resume and student support services and offices at the Oglesby campus and Ottawa Center will reopen at 8 a.m. Monday, Oct. 13. 

A total of $377,000 was awarded to 327 students for the 2025-2026 school year, and more than 130 of those students gathered to meet the donors, according to an IVCC news release.

A cultural tribute to departed loved ones will take shape in Illinois Valley Community College’s Main Campus and Ottawa Center lobbies as the college and its communities celebrate The Day of the Dead.

Agenda items include designation of emeritus status, technology system contracts, furniture purchases and personnel appointments.

St. Bede Academy its alumni association announced Wednesday the recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Award: Dr. Michael J. Stuart and Dr. James Hudziak.

Wednesday, a statue of newly-canonized Carlo Acutis was blessed outside the former Holy Family School in Oglesby, merged recently into the Academy of Carlo Actutis and in memory of a longtime teacher.

Learn how Illinois Valley residents fought, worked, played and farmed the land during a series of presentations offered through Illinois Valley Community College’s Continuing Education Center. 

La Salle County Retired Teachers will meet Monday, Sept. 22 at Nell’s Woodland, 2000 Alexis Avenue, Ottawa.

More than 100 health professions students marked the completion of their programs with pinning and graduation ceremonies at Illinois Valley Community College this summer.