IVCC Trustees give go ahead for regional dispatch center on campus

It looks like a new regional 9-1-1 dispatch center will be located on the Illinois Valley Community College campus in Oglesby.

IVCC Trustees Thursday night voted in support of a 5,000-square-foot dispatch center to be built south of the college barn along Orlando Smith Road. A state grant of over a million dollars will help pay for the dispatch center.

Police and fire chiefs from Oglesby, Peru and La Salle are leading the effort for a regional dispatch center which may be expanded to include other police and fire departments.