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ILR Summer Social and Study
Date: July 9, 2007
Come to our ILR summer picnic so you can catch up with fellow ILR members and eat some ice cream! We will gather at the Grand View Drive Shelter (overlooking Galena Road) for a gourmet boxed lunch complemented by a presentation from Dr. Michael Wiant, Director of Dickson Mounds Museum. [More]

Summer Forensics Institute
Date:  July 13 - 26, 2008
Location:  Bradley University Caterpillar Global Communications Center
Students at Bradley University's Summer Forensics Institute have the opportunity to work on specific events with top high school and college coaches and with members of the National Championship Bradley Speech Team. Anyone may attend the Institute who has completed at least one, but no more than three and one-half years of high school.  [More] 

Summer Math Program for Children
Date:  Saturdays July 19 - August 16, 2008
Location:  Bradley University Olin Hall
This is a real-life look at how math impacts our lives--whether it's baking cookies or figuring batting averages. It's intended to enrich kids' interest in math because it will be practical. It's not remedial. It's not advanced. It's simply a fun way to teach young children
pre-K – grade 6 how to think through problems.  [More] 

Learning Trips: Taming of the Shrew
Illinois Shakespeare Festival
Normal, Illinois
Date: July 20, 2008
If you missed all the fun at last summer's trip to the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, you'll have another chance to travel with us for a great performance and an exquisite evening this summer. We will be joined by a teacher of Shakespearean literature, enjoy a picnic dinner, take a backstage tour, and watch Shakespearean comedy at its best. [More]

Marketing & Technology Seminar for Funeral Directors and Staff
Date: July 22 - 23, 2008
Location: Par-a-Dice Hotel, East Peoria
Funeral directors and their staff who want to increase their knowledge about technology, marketing, and the Internet will benefit from this 2-day workshop. [More]

World of Wonder
Date:  August 4 - 8, 2008
Location:  Bradley University Baker Hall
The World of Wonder (WOW) provides a broad array of one-week courses that enable first through eighth grade gifted and talented students to explore and expand their interests and abilities in a university environment.  [More]   

Foundations of Leadership
Date:  September 3 - 5, 2008
Location: Suburban Chicago (Lisle)
This interactive program creates a foundation for understanding the challenges facing a new manager and for helping the individual improve leadership skills and behaviors at a formative stage in his or her career.  [More]

Presidents from the Prairie: A Tour of Four Midwest Presidential Museums
Date: September 8 - 12, 2008
Location: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois
Join us for an exciting opportunity to learn more about four world leaders from the heartland: Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Abraham Lincoln. We'll visit the four presidential museums plus the national World War I museum in Kansas City. [More]  

Foundations of Leadership
Date:  December 3 - 5, 2008
Location:  Chicago
This interactive program creates a foundation for understanding the challenges facing a new manager and for helping the individual improve leadership skills and behaviors at a formative stage in his or her career.  [More]