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Top: Reference: Education: Colleges_and_Universities: North_America: United_States: Illinois: Shimer_College
Shimer College is a Great Books school, located in Waukegan, Illinois. It is named for Frances Wood Shimer, who served as president of the college through the 19th century. She and her companion Cinderella Gregory founded the school as the Mount Carroll Seminary, in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, in 1853. Through its connection to the University of Chicago, the college adopted the Great Books program of Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1950s.
Due to financial difficulties, the College was forced to move to Waukegan in 1979. Its enrollment now stands at approximately 120 students.
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