ECC student Kevin Stoffel leads a group of middle schoolers around Elgin Community College Friday during a tour of the Campus. Kimball Middle School students spent the morning at college as part of the college's Alliance for College Readiness. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Students from Kimball Middle School stroll through the art department Friday at Elgin Community College. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Kimball Middle School students take pictures across campus Friday during a tour at Elgin Community College. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Kimball Middle School students looked at various classrooms across campus Friday at Elgin Community College.December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
ECC student Kevin Stoffel (center) leads a group of middle schoolers around Elgin Community College Friday during a tour of the Campus. Kimball Middle School students spent the morning at college as part of the college's Alliance for College Readiness. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Students from Kimball Middle School take a tour through Elgin Community College Friday . The students spent the morning on campus as part of the college's Alliance for College Readiness. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
ECC student Kevin Stoffel shows a dance move on a theater stage to middle schoolers Friday at Elgin Community College. Kimball Middle School students took a tour of the campus as part of the college's Alliance for College Readiness. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
Kimball Middle schooler Jose Flores takes a peek through a gymnasium door window during a tour Friday at Elgin Community College. Kimball Middle School students spent the morning at college as part of the college's Alliance for College Readiness. December 7, 2012 | Michael Smart~Sun-Times Media
ELGIN — It looks like an airport. Or a mall. It even has its own gift shop. That’s how about 130 seventh-graders from Kimball Middle School in Elgin described Elgin Community College and its bookstore — not actually a gift shop — during their first-ever …