Starting this fall, Waubonsee Community College welcomed students to its new Technical Education Center, a $60 million building at its Sugar Grove campus.

Waubonsee has long offered training for careers in automotive and welding technologies, but the new facility is meant to give students pursuing degrees and certificates more space for the hands-on training that makes up much of their programs, according to Waubonsee Community College President Brian Knetl.

The new facility, located just off of Route 47, is the first new building to be constructed at Waubonsee in 10 years, Waubonsee Community College Board President Rebecca Oliver said at an opening celebration for the center on Friday.

“It is very literally raising the visibility of the college,” Oliver said. “This building is raising

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