Elementary School Private schools Immanuel Lutheran Aquin Catholic Schools Tri-County Christian Schools Open Bible Learning Center Colleges Highland Community College offers 68 degree and certificate programs. Columbia College-Freeport, located on the Highland Community College campus. Media Local Freeport media includes WFRL (1570 AM), WFPS Radio (92.1 FM) and The Journal Standard daily newspaper. Notable people Joseph M. Bailey, jurist and legislator Dan Balz, award-winning political reporter for the Washington Post Ken Behring, owned the NFL's Seattle Seahawks Harry Boeke, Illinois state senator and businessman Carl Cain, 1956 Olympic basketball gold medalist, University of Iowa basketball player John Callahan, Major League Baseball player Janet H. Clark, Minnesota state legislator Alfred A. Cohn, author, journalist and newspaper editor, Police Commissioner, and screenwriter of the 1920s and 1930s A.D. Condo, cartoonist Richard Wayne Dirksen, organist and choirmaster William Eckert, Air Force general, Major League Baseball commissioner Calista Flockhart, actress James B. Goetz, Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Tuffy Gosewisch, Major League Baseball player Charles Guiteau, assassin of US President James A. Garfield Corky Hale, jazz musician Clare Winger Harris, science fiction author Oscar E. Heard, Illinois jurist Edmund Heller (1875–1939) zoologist Homer Hillebrand, Major League Baseball player Donna Jogerst, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) Francis Lamb, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Edward E. Laughlin, Illinois State Senator and lawyer Gerald McClellan, middleweight boxing champion John Meyer, Illinois State Representative, lawyer Ravi Patel, film and TV actor Jason Pearson, Major League Baseball player Preston Pearson, National Football League player Trisha Paytas, YouTube personality William Buckley Peck, physician, surgeon, and founder of the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Association of North America William Thomas Rawleigh, industrialist, Illinois State Representative Harlan Rigney, Illinois State Representative Stephen A. Rigney, Illinois state representative William Avery Rockefeller, father of John D. Rockefeller Adolph Rupp, head basketball coach Freeport HS 1926-30 and Univ. of Kentucky 1930–72, for whom Rupp Arena is named. Manuel Seal - Grammy-award-winning producer Ted Snyder, songwriter Charles J. Stine, silent film actor Tiffany Thayer, author, actor, Thirteen Women Alice Bradford Wiles, Chicago clubwoman, lived in Freeport Steve Luecke, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, 1997-2012 References External links Cities in Illinois Micropolitan areas of Illinois Cities in Stephenson County, Illinois County seats in Illinois Populated places established in 1838 Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois 1838 establishments in Illinois