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131 years ago to be precise, on the 22nd of January in 184 - the Legislature of Illinois chartered Carthage College. The name of the college in 1847 was Hillsboro, not Carthage, because it was located in Hillsboro, a small town in southern Illinois. Later it would move to Springfield, Illinois, then to Car- thage, also in Illinois, and most. recently to Kenosha, Wisconsin. The institution has changed names and locations. Basically. however, it has been in its century and a quarter the same institution: a Lutheran col-
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lege of the liberal arts serving midwest- ern America. The Christian church in general and Lutheranism in particular have long placed great value on higher education. Lutherans in Illinois began to plan the establishment of a college as early as the 18303. Illinois and the entire Mid- dle West were at one time part of the great frontier, the American West. Life was crude and difficult, almost beyond imagining. The Lutheran church in Illi- nois consisted of only a few, small, struggling congregations. Yet, despite all the many drawbacks, men of vision were determined to found a college on that frontier. The board considered two possible locations for the college, Hillsboro it- self, and Springfield. It decided on Hillsboro because the community of- fered the use- of a suitable building, then occupied by Hillsbom Academy.
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