Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, Closing-- Part 2

The college has managed to survive other difficult circumstances, including the economic crisis of 1887, a major campus fire in 1912, the Spanish flu of 1918, the Great Depression, World War II and the global economic crisis of 2008.  (They even survived my buddy Mark's brief time as a student there.)

But, now, the coronavirus did it in.

The decision to close comes just two years after the college had seen record-breaking enrollment in 2019 with residence halls at maximum capacity.

There was also a cyber attack in December 2021 that closed down the admission activities.

Sadly, Lincoln College joins a short list of other small private colleges forced to close because of the virus:

Mills College in California, Becker College in Massachusetts, Concordia College in New York and MacMurray College in Illinois.

--RoadDog