Wheaton College, founded in 1860 and named after benefactor Warren L. Wheaton, is a private liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, in the Chicago suburban area. It has notable presence of Tolkien-related clubs, lecture series, and classes.
The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College is an archive, library, and museum dedicated to Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and five other British writers.
Phil Ryken, its current president, wrote The Messiah Comes to Middle-earth: Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings, published in 2017. Writers such as John Garth, Holly Ordway, and Doug Adams have been interviewed by Wheaton for Middle-earth-related book launches.
It is not to be confused with Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, whose faculty includes Tolkien scholar Michael D. C. Drout.