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The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) is a quasi-public, ten-member panel with a permanent staff. It operates several key Illinois programs of higher education and tuition assistance, of which the largest is the Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant program for eligible Illinois college students. It was founded in 1957.
The 123rd Field Artillery Regiment is an active Field Artillery Branch regiment of the Illinois Army National Guard.The regiment's 2nd Battalion last served as a towed, 155mm cannon battalion assigned to the 169th Field Artillery Brigade, though administratively under the control of the 65th Troop Command.
Demobilized 7–8 June 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois; Reorganized 11 November 1921 in the Illinois National Guard at Chicago as the 1st Field Artillery; Redesignated 13 September 1921 as the 122d Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division; Inducted into Federal service 5 March 1941 at Chicago
The Department also serves as the back-office military link between Illinois and the United States Department of Defense (USDOD), including coordination between USDOD and Guards units and their families when Illinois units and sub-units are on federal service. National Guard activities within Illinois include both the Illinois Army National ...
The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry Hamilton ...
On 1 July 1877, the Illinois State Guard was redesignated the Illinois National Guard. From 1882-1890, the companies were reassigned to the 3rd Infantry Regiment. The 3rd Illinois was mustered into federal service on 7 May 1898 for the Spanish-American War at Camp Tanner, Springfield, Illinois, as the 3rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was ...
The 172nd Infantry Brigade was organized at Camp Grant. In 1918, the Spanish Influenza Pandemic affected over 4,000 men at the camp, taking the lives of over 1,000 between 23 September and 1 October. Camp Grant was closed as an active U.S. Army facility by December 1923, but in January 1924, it was turned over to the Illinois National Guard.
John Aaron Rawlins was born on February 13, 1831, in East Galena, Illinois, the second of ten children born to James Dawson and Lovisa Collier Rawlins, both of Scotch-Irish descent, whose ancestors originally settled in Culpeper County, Virginia. [1]