Data on Illinois public community college faculty and staff characteristics are presented and analyzed in this report for fall 1983, 1984, and 1985. Tables provide statistics on faculty and staff employment classification by college; full-time employment classification by sex and ethnic origin; full-time teaching faculty by highest degree held, age, sex, tenure status, and years of service; primary teaching area of full- and part-time faculty; full-time academic support personnel by highest degree held, sex, age, and years of service; and full-time administrative supervisory, and professional/technical personnel by highest degree held, age, sex, and years of service. Summary findings included the following: (1) the colleges reported a total of 21,143 employees in fall 1985; (2) in fall 1985, 49% of the part-time faculty and 36.6% of the full-time faculty were females; (3) a comparison of faculty data with community college student characteristics revealed that minorities were not as well represented among full-time faculty/staff as they were in the student population; (4) in all racial/ethnic categories, the number of men employed was equal to or greater than the number of women, with the exception of Blacks, Hispanics, and other/unknown; and (5) among full-time teaching faculty, 83.6% held master's degrees or higher, 40.5% were between the ages of 40 and 49 years, 85.7% were tenured, 60.2% had been employed in the same classification for 11 years or more, and the most common teaching area was letters. Appendices provide additional data by college district. (EJV)