The American Legion Illinois Boys State is among the most respected and selective educational programs of instruction in the operation of government for high school students.
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ROCHELLE — The American Legion Illinois Boys State is among the most respected and selective educational programs of instruction in the operation of government for high school students.
It is a participatory program in which students learn by doing and become part of the operation of city, county, and state governments.
Boys State was founded in Illinois in 1935 and is now a national program of the American Legion. (The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a separate but similar program for young women called Girls State.)
At Boys State, scheduled for June 9 through June 15, participants learn the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizenship. Although fictional political parties are created and the citizens are randomly assigned to one, Boys State is nonpartisan in the sense of U.S. or Illinois political parties.