This report presents data on the Illinois public community colleges for Fiscal Year 1997 and Fall 1997 (FY 1998) regarding the system's students, faculty, staff, instructional programs, operating finances and capital construction on the state's forty public campuses. Following a brief introduction providing a profile of the colleges and a map of the college districts, section I presents tables showing student characteristics, including headcount data for fall 1997 by sex and full-/part-time status, instructional program area, age, ethnic origin, academic classification, type of residency, and enrollment status. This section also offers information on proportion of district populations served, community education enrollments, and headcount and full-time equivalent data for fall 1988 through fall 1997. Section II contains data on faculty and staff, including information on the sex and full-/part-time status of instructional faculty, administrative staff, non-teaching professional staff, and classified staff for fall 1997. Average base salaries for FY 1998 and average class types and size are also detailed. Section III presents program enrollment and completion data for 1997, including unduplicated headcount enrollments by sex, program classification, academic program, age, ethnic origin, highest previous degree, degrees awarded, adult certificates awarded, and annual duplicated completers by program by college. Section IV contains financial data on apportionment, grants to colleges, instructional unit costs, tax levies, operating revenues and expenditures, and energy usage and costs. Finally, section V provides data on facilities and college instruction. (AS)