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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 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 Veteran Grant (IVG) is a program whereby the state of Illinois provides educational benefits to certain Illinoisans who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. Recipients of the IVG are provided with the full amount of tuition and fees to attend any approved public college or university in Illinois.
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 ...
Demobilized 5 June 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois; Reorganized 26 June 1919 in the Illinois National Guard at Chicago as the 7th Infantry; Converted, reorganized, and redesignated 1 May 1921 as the 2d Field Artillery; Redesignated 13 September 1921 as the 124th Field Artillery and assigned to the 33d Division
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.
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 ...
It was reconstituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 33rd Division, and allotted to the state of Illinois. It was reorganized on 13 December 1921 by redesignation of the 2nd Infantry, Illinois National Guard (organized 1920–21; headquarters organized 7 July 1921 and federally recognized at Chicago, Illinois ) as the 132nd Infantry.