Jubilee College State Park
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Jubilee College State Park is an Illinois state park located 6 mi west of Peoria, Illinois. It contains Jubilee College State Historic Site, a frontier Illinois college active from 1840 to 1862.
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Philander Chase
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Philander Chase was an Episcopal Church bishop, educator, pioneer of the United States western frontier, especially in Ohio and Illinois, and founder of Kenyon College.
Jubilee College State Park
…Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Jubilee College, and the frontier community that supported it, was founded in 1839 by Episcopal bishop Philander Chase. He named it after his expression of thankfulness and joy: "If you ask me for the reason why I call my Illinois institution Jubilee College, I answer…
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Grave monument in Jubilee Cemetery next to Jubilee College in Peoria County, Illinois