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The District is divided into three major sections: the traditional downtown of Mount Carroll, including the courthouse, library and business district; a residential area to the south of the downtown; and further south, the historic original campus of Chicago's Shimer College, now occupied by the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies ...
The former Karyn Kupcinet Playhouse on the former Shimer campus in Mount Carroll, Illinois. The building is currently a restaurant, banquet facility, and bar. Enrollment continued to fall throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, by approximately 50 students per year. [ 6 ]
The Mount Carroll Seminary was the name of Shimer College from 1853 to 1896. The Seminary was located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the United States.A pioneering institution in its time and place, the Mount Carroll Seminary served as a center of culture and education in 19th-century northwestern Illinois.
Mount Carroll is located slightly northwest of the center of Carroll County at (42.095473, -89.977042 U.S. Route 52 passes through the southern part of the city, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to Lanark and west 10 miles (16 km) to Savanna on the Mississippi River.
The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies is an American museum studies school located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. In 1979, the Center purchased the campus of Shimer College, which had occupied the site from 1853 until moving cross-state to Waukegan. The campus was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Classes ...
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced / ˈ ʃ aɪ m ər / ⓘ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, originally founded in 1853.
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Shimer people in a Shimer class This is a list of notable students and faculty of Shimer College , a Great Books college that was acquired in 2017 by North Central College . Founded in 1853, Shimer occupied a traditional college campus in Mount Carroll, Illinois , from 1853 to 1978, and an improvised campus in Waukegan from 1979 to 2006.