| Type | Public,community college |
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| Established | 1924; 101 years ago (1924) |
| Students | 3,850 (all undergraduate)(Spring 2022)[1] |
| Location | ,, United States |
| Website | www |
Morton College is apubliccommunity college inCicero, Illinois. It is the second-oldest community college in the state only afterJoliet Junior College.[2] While the campus itself was constructed in 1975, the college was established in 1924. Before the construction of the campus, the college was housed in the same building asthe local high school and wasMorton Junior College.[3] It is named afterJulius Sterling Morton, a Nebraska newspaper editor and politician who served as PresidentGrover Cleveland'sSecretary of Agriculture.
Land was acquired for an athletics field in 1994.[4] Intercollegiate athletics for men include baseball, basketball, soccer, and cross country. Women's sports include volleyball, basketball, cross country, soccer and softball.
The college is aNational Alternative Fuels Training Consortium training center. It also operates a low-power FM station, WZQC-LP, at 99.1 MHz.[5]
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