Jobs for Illinois Graduates (JILG)

Despite the lack of JILG’s annual funding renewal from the Illinois state legislature for this school year, Springfield Southeast and Springfield Lanphier high schools  have continued on with the JILG program anyway because of the tremendous value it brings to the students.  The Springfield school district thought it was a vital program for its disadvantaged and at-risk [...]

JILG continues to build on its 12 years of success with another outstanding year by graduating over 95% of its students when the national average continues to be below 70%. See 2008 - 2009 results.