Peacekeepers Scholarship Packet 2024-2025

Logan County Sheriff Landers would like to notify the community of a scholarship opportunity for the 2024-2025 academic year. Please follow the link above for a fillable version of the application. Below you will find eligibility and alternate application information. Additional pertinent information can be found on the application.

Eligibility
There shall be no restriction on any applicant by reason of race, age, creed, color, sex or national origin. The only limitations are the following:
•Applicants must be permanent Illinois residents.
•Scholarships are to be utilized at institutions of higher learning.
•Students must be enrolled as a full-time student during the 2024-2025 school year (excluding summer session).
•Scholarships applicants must be dependents of active-duty or retired Law Enforcement or Law Enforcement killed in the line of duty or dependents of active-duty military, active Military Reserve, active National Guard or a member killed in action.
•Only the immediate family of the sheriff is ineligible to apply. Families of sheriff’s office employees are eligible to make application.
•Those who received the Peacekeepers Scholarship during a previous academic year may apply again. However, such applicants will be considered along with all others who apply in the county.
•If for any reason, a recipient relinquishes a scholarship, that scholarship will be granted to an alternate from the same county which was selected by the Peacekeepers Committee.

Please read the following very carefully. Failure to comply with the rules will result in disqualification.

How to Apply
Applications are available at local Sheriff’s offices or at www.ilsheriff.org/youth-2/. Fill out the application, complete the written essay and return all documentation to the Sheriff’s Office in the county of your permanent residence by June 3, 2024 (must be postmarked by this date). A Sheriffs’ directory is available at www.ilsheriff.org/sheriffs-directory/. Applicants must be eligible for admission to the school indicated on the application.