As designated by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), a higher education region is a geographical area within which an institution may operate and is not limited to the site within the region where the institution initially applied. A region consists of one or more coterminous community college districts.
Region Number
Region Name
Community College District
Community College District Number
1
North Suburban
Lake County
532
Oakton
535
Harper
512
2
Fox Valley
Elgin
509
Kishwaukee
523
McHenry
528
Rock Valley
511
Waubonsee
516
3
West Suburban
DuPage
502
Morton
527
Triton
504
4
Western
Black Hawk
503
Carl Sandburg
518
Highland
519
John Wood
539
Sauk Valley
506
Spoon River
534
5
Central
Heartland
540
Illinois Central
514
Illinois Valley
513
Lincoln Land
526
6
South Metropolitan
Joliet Junior
525
Kankakee
520
Moraine Valley
524
Prairie State
515
South Suburban
510
7
Prairie Region
Danville
507
Lake Land
517
Parkland
505
Richland
537
8
Southwestern
Illinois Eastern
529
Kaskaskia
501
Lewis and Clark
536
Southwestern Illinois
522
9
Southern
John A. Logan
530
Rend Lake
521
Shawnee
531
Southeastern
533
10
Chicago
City Colleges
508
Map of Illinois Higher Education Regions and Community College Districts