Talk:List of school districts in Illinois

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For anyone who wants to do mundane research:

  • List of school districts in Illinois is outdated. School districts are consolidating by the dozen each year now; I see a couple sets of districts to merge already. Also, some of the school district names are strangely abbreviated, like Peoria Heights. It would be nice if each county had which Region of Education it's in also, since school district numbers are only unique within an RoE.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/High schools/US/Illinois has errors for sure; for example, it seems to include schools that were specially run whether they've been high schools or not.

Maybe I should repeat this in the discussion for those categories, but it's late and I'm tired and dumb. --Closeapple 10:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Although you have to look into the history of the List of school districts in Illinois page to see it, I was the one who essentially created the current page when I replaced the then-existing entries with a "complete" list. What I did was copy the "Illinois Public School Districts by County - School year 2004-2005" list from the Illinois State Board of Education [1] into an Excel spreadsheet. I I spent a couple of hours cleaning up the list, including trying to replace as many of their odd abbreviations as I could. The 2005-06 list is now available on the site. I certainly welcome corrections. -- DS1953 talk 17:56, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Making Things Easier to Read

I think that it may make some more sense to make this thing easier to read. I have an idea for this: boldening every other school district on the list (For example:

  • District 1
  • District 2
  • District 3
  • District 4

Just to show) Will make it easier to discern the individual school districts. Just a thought out there in the wind, you know?

--Starstriker7(Say hior see my works) 00:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Added some websites

This can be a very useful page for anyone looking for jobs in education. I went ahead and added as many websites as I could, at least in the chicagoland area. I also changed "web site" to "website" because that is the proper spelling. Splent (talk) 17:13, 2 June 2008 (UTC)