Have you ever driven through a small town in Illinois and noticed an older, worn down school building sitting silently, where the ringing bell once signified the beginning and end of each school day?

Have you ever listened to your grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles or towns people talk of the great times they had attending high school in your town though now the high school no longer exists?

Did they tell of how the school building in your town was once the center of the community?

That is the basis of this web site. Help us document the past before there are no longer people who experienced it around to tell of the great stories and, in particular, the great athletic teams that once graced the courts and fields of yesteryear. No school will be left out, however an individual or group of individual's will be responsible for initiating the information regarding their particular school. We are hopeful there are thousands of "homers" like ourselves who feel they, too, grew up in the "best small town in Illinois".