Joliet Township Central High School Historical Tour Joliet, Illinois

Joliet Township Central High School Historical Tour. Built mostly of Joliet limestone. In 1982, the school building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was designed by Frank Shaver Allen. The school is four stories tall, two city blocks long, and includes four separate buildings. The campus underwent a moderate expansion during 2005 when the old shop building was knocked down and a new building was erected in its place. A catwalk connects the main building to the T&I building and allows students to cross unencumbered during inclement weather. The facilities include a daycare center (on the ground floor of the Little Theater building), a planetarium, six tennis courts, one soccer field, four baseball fields, a 1/16-mile indoor track and a 1/4-mile track across the street to the east. Joliet Junior College (JJC), a community college based in Joliet, Illinois, was the first public community college founded in the United States. JJC shared Joliet Township High School building in the early 1900's. Joliet Junior College was founded in 1901 by Joliet Township High School Superintendent J. Stanley Brown and President of the University of Chicago, William Rainey Harper. Brown, who came to Joliet in 1893, first served as the principal of the school.