About Us

Located in Northwest Illinois, CEO students come from seventeen participating Whiteside Area Career Center (WACC) schools in five different counties. WACC began it's conception in 1966-67.

WACC is one of about sixty regional vocational systems in Illinois. These systems were organized in 1986-87 to coordinate and provide regional career and technical programming among its member, collect and report data to the Illinois State Board of Education, act as the flow-through of federal and state resources, and market career and technology education throughout its region.