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Opening Doors 2026 % WICS TV

Posted on 06/09/2026

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Flag Day : June 14

Updated on 11/10/2025

In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14th.It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.  Both President Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 1927, issued proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as the National Flag Day. But it wasn't until August 3, 1949, that Congress approved the national observance, and President Harry Truman signed it into law.

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2027 Summer Camp

Updated on 11/10/2025

ISVI's Summer Camp 2027 Dates - yet to be announced We're always excited to bring together students who are blind and visually impaired from schools throughout Illinois for an exciting learning adventure.   Students explore ways to bring S.T.E.A.M and Transition to life.   Students will also engage in exciting learning activities, field trips, and other recreation activities and sports.   For more information call us at 217-479-4436

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Super-Kds Day June 19

Updated on 11/10/2025

Quincy's Optimist Club's Annual Super Kids Race Day is all about the kids! The Quincy Optimist Club allows children with special needs to race with a buddy driver.  All the buddy racers are volunteers. For the past nine years, the club has held the Super Kids Race the day prior to the Quincy Optimist Soap Box Derby. The past 4 years, the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired has brought over some local as well as the participants from our Summer Camp.   The priceless experience has been unbelievable.  For more information, visit quincyderby.com  

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Support our Students / School

Updated on 04/02/2026

We are very thankful of all the organizations and business' that support our students, school, and activities. The donations, advertisements, and sponsors obviously help us by their financial donations, but equally important: they help us to build stronger connections between the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired and the community.  As with every school, budgets are tight and the cost of activities and sports continue to rise.   ISVI is a residential school in which our students are from all over the state.  Unlike our local public schools, the vast majority of our students are not local.   At the same time, our students are integrated throughout Jacksonville and as a result, Jacksonville becomes their 2nd home. From their first day of attendance, our students learn to advocate for themselves and become as independent as possible.  We’re fortunate in that this community embraces all the schools.  This is evident by the

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Juneteenth . June 19

Updated on 11/10/2025

 >Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

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Father's Day : June 21

Updated on 11/10/2025

Father's Day is a holiday of honoring fatherhood and paternal bonds, as well as the influence of fathers in society. 

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Virtual Tour of ISVI

Updated on 11/10/2025

Welcome to our Virtual Tour of ISVI!Thank you for visiting our web site!   Below are 7 links to separate Videos.   The first two are about ISVI while 4 are news reports from Channel 20 out of Springfield on two of the several sports we participate in - Goalball and Track.   At the end there's yet another Video of our Opening Doors Program. This website's goal is to be an added resource as to all the great opportunities that are happening for the students at ISVI. For more detailed school information click on ISVI's State website. You can also find links taking you directly to other local schools in Jacksonville such as ISD, Routt, & JHS.  We are fortunate in that both Routt & JHS work directly with both ISD & ISVI. We are also proud to be a Leader in Me School.   We're still a work in progress as we continue to include what's happening at our sister schools in town.  It's a family

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Title IX June 23, 1972

Updated on 11/10/2025

54 years ago on June 23rd, Title IX of the Education Amendments was signed into law. This game changing law “is a comprehensive law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in all programs or activities in all federally funded educational institutions including high schools and middle schools” (Pennepacker, 2021). When you interpret the law, it allows women and girls to participate in middle school, high school, and college sports without discrimination. To this day, women and girls have accomplished and broke through many barriers thanks to Title IX.  It's important to highlight some of the pioneers/advocates of this movement and to thank them for their relentless efforts:  Edith Louise Starrett Green, Billie Jean King, and Peg Pennepacker.

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2026 CAMP LIONS

Updated on 11/10/2025

 Camp Lions Registration Opens in early January! Students with low vision/blind  and/or hard of hearing/deaf are all eligibleVisit https://lionsofillinoisfoundation.org/

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Independence Day : July 4

Updated on 11/10/2025

Independence Day, also called Fourth of July or July 4th, in the United States, the annual celebration of nationhood.It commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. ... Such festivals had long played a significant role in the Anglo-American political tradition.

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ISVI Track Results

CoEd Varsity Track
Updated on 09/17/2025

Congratulations as ISVI finished 1st at the 50th Annual Al Eberhardt Track Invite in Missouri

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