NORTHERN ILLINOIS NORMAL SCHOOL
An institution incorporated in 1884, at Dixon, Lee County Illinois, for the purpose of giving instruction in branches related to the art of teaching.
Its last report claims a total of 1,639 pupils, of whom 885 were men and 744 women, receiving instruction from thirty-six teachers.
The total value of property was estimated at more than $200,000, of which $160,000 was in real estate and $45,000 in apparatus.
Attendance on the institution has been affected by the establishment under act of Legislature of 1895, of the Northern State Normal School at DeKalb.