Illinois College Conference
The Illinois College Conference was a college athletic conference that operated from 1938 to 1946 in the U.S. state of Illinois. The league was proposed in the spring of 1937 and formed later that year at a meeting in Peoria, Illinois. The ten charter members were Augustana College, Bradley University, Illinois College, Illinois [Wesleyan University], Knox College, Lake [Forest College], Millikin University, Monmouth College, North Central College, and Wheaton College, all of which had previously been members of the Interstate [Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference], nicknamed the "Little Nineteen". The conference was disbanded in the spring of 1946 and replaced with a new league, the College Conference of Illinois, which was later renamed the College Conference of [Illinois and Wisconsin].