The Mid-State 6 Conference was a

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conference in

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, made up of the high schools in

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plus various other schools over the course of its existence. It existed for several decades. Previous names included MidState 8 and MidState 9 in the 1960s, and Mid-State 10 in the 1980s and 1990s. , the only schools remaining were in the city of Peoria: Peoria Notre Dame and the three general public high schools Manual, Peoria (Central), and Richwoods. Those schools were joined the

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in 2014.

History

After IVC High School and Quincy Notre Dame left the Mid-State 6, a merger with the

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was set to begin in 2013 with football. However, when Manual's prior obligation to play

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made it unable to schedule a game with

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, the merger failed, with the Mid-State 6 schools instead playing officially as independents against Western Big 6 Conference schools in football during the 2013–2014 school year.

Past members

Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute Academy of Our Lady and Spalding Institute were Catholic high schools across the street from each other in downtown Peoria, Illinois. The academy (AOL), a girls' school, traced its lineage back to 1863. The Spalding Institute (SI), the boys' scho ...

— name defunct in 1988 upon creation of

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* Bergan High School — name defunct in 1988 when succeeded by

Illinois Valley Central High School Illinois Valley Central High School (also known as Chillicothe IVC, IVCHS, or simply IVC) 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 ...

(football only) until 2013 * E. N. Woodruff High School — closed as a traditional high school in 2010; had always been in the same conference as other Peoria public schools *

Quincy Notre Dame High School Quincy Notre Dame High School is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational high school in Quincy, Illinois, United States, founded in 1867, serving upper school students in Educational stages, grades ninth grade, 9-twelfth grade, 12. It is located ...

until 2013

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Past members

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