Illinois Statutes Chapter 5. General Provisions § 385/1. Definitions

(a) “Educational loan” means any loan guaranteed by the State Scholarship Commission under the Higher Education Student Assistance Law,  1 any education loan made by an institution of higher education from the proceeds of a loan to the institution by the Illinois Independent Higher Education Loan Authority under the Illinois Independent Higher Education Loan Authority Act,  2 or any other loan from public funds made for the purpose of financing an individual's attendance at an institution of higher education.

(b) “State agency” means any officer, board, commission or agency created by the Constitution, whether in the executive, legislative or judicial branch, but other than the circuit court; any officer, department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority, university, body politic or corporate of the State; any administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government which is created by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government and their officers, school districts and boards of election commissioners; or any administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the above or as may be created by executive order of the Governor.