IVC High School

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Illinois Valley Central High School is a public four-year high school located at 1300 West Sycamore Street in Chillicothe, Illinois, a city in Peoria County, Illinois, in the Midwestern United States. IVCHS serves the communities of Chillicothe, Dunlap, Edelstein, Mossville, Peoria, and Rome. The campus is located 15 miles northeast of Peoria, Illinois, and serves a mixed city, village, and rural residential community.AthleticsIllinois Valley Central High School competes in the Corn Belt Conference and is a member school in the Illinois High School Association. In the 2017–2018 school year, IVCHS will join the new Illini Prairie Conference following the merger of the Corn Belt Conference and Okaw Valley Conference.In the IHSA, IVC has appeared in the IHSA Final Four on four occasions, most recently in 2010. IVC's first appearance in the IHSA Final Four was in the 2006 Class A Boys' Basketball State Championship where the Ghosts fell to Seneca HS 44–47. Later that year in May, IVCHS arrived back in the final four this time playing for the Class 1A state title in boys' baseball. This time IVC top Trenton (Wesclin) 8–3 for IVC's first and only State title to date. IVC returned to the final four in 2008 for the Class AA Boys' Baseball state championship against Stanford (Olympia) HS where IVC fell to Olympia finishing 2nd. IVC's most recent appearance in the IHSA Final Four was in Boys' Baseball, however IVC fell to Harrisburg 1–7 in the semifinal before finishing 3rd against Elmhurst (IC Catholic) 6–4.