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Illinois College
Beecher Hall c.1934
Established	1829
Type	Private
President	Dr. Axel D. Steuer
Students	Approximately 1,000
Location	Jacksonville, Illinois, United States
Affiliations	United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church (USA)
Website	www.ic.edu

Illinois College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA); it is located in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is the second oldest college in Illinois, founded in 1829 (and the first to grant a degree - 1835) by one of the famous Yale Bands -- students from Yale University that travelled westward to found new colleges. It briefly served as the state's first medical school from 1843-1848, and became co-educational in 1903.

Beecher Hall, the first college building erected in Illinois, is named after its first president, Edward Beecher, sibling to Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The first floor of Beecher Hall is the international headquarters of Phi Alpha Literary Society. The second floor is the home to Sigma Pi Literary Society.

Illinois College has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, one of only eleven in the state.

Illinois College has recently developed the The Illinois College Academic Honor Code. This oath is intended to commit IC students to preserving their intellectual integrity:

"As a member of the Illinois College academic community, I promise to preserve and enforce the Honor Code and everything for which it stands. I will present my work in compliance with the Rules of Academic Integrity listed in the Honor Code. I will report any transgressions that I witness to the professor of the class in question. I will never break the honor of this institution, and if I do so, I will accept the consequences of my offenses, as outlined in the Honor Code."

The college participates in an Intercultural Exchange program with Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Each spring 25 Japanese students come to Illinois College to live and study for five weeks.

• John Wesley Powell, explorer, scientist, politician, 2nd director of U.S. Geological Survey
• William Jennings Bryan, orator and United States statesman
• William Jayne, first Governor of Dakota Territory
• Richard Yates, Illinois politician and governor
• Richard Yates, his son, also an Illinois politician
• Ralph Tyler Smith, Illinois politician
• Marina V, singer/songwriter

• Official website
• Campus Webcam - View of the upper campus, facing southeast from Whipple Hall. Visible through the trees are Rammelkamp Chapel, Schewe Library, and Kirby Learning Center.
• Official athletics website
• Campus map
• Survey number HABS IL-25-11 - Illinois College, Beecher Hall, Jacksonville, Morgan County, IL