A mural was painted on the side of the Essig Law building on the square.

The old Washington school bell was mounted in front of Washington Grade School.

Muller Road is completed and opened from Peoria Street to Kern Road.

Arlene Ward and Ed Habecker Jr. are the 1976 recipients of the Washingtonian Award.

Recent WCHS graduates Richard Miller and Kirk Starnes were killed in an automobile accident January 23, 1976.  They were heading to Peoria to pick up tuxedos for Miller's wedding, which was to be the next day, and were hit head on at the foot of the hill on Route 8 in East Peoria by a pickup with no headlights driving in the wrong lane.

In June 1976 17-year-old Dirk DeWispeleare was found by police lying on the road between Washington and Sunnyland with injuries.  He would pass away in the oncoming days after several surgeries for head trauma.  Dirk had just graduated from Spalding Institute the week before.

As part of a series of significant financial cuts, District 50 closed Sundoer School on Theodore Street.

Cook Machine Company on Walnut Street starts supplying corn shellers to the Orville Redenbacher Corporation.

In September 1976, Washington was accepted by the Mid-State Nine Conference, making it the Mid-State Ten.

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