the lake michigan conference (lmc) was an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the ncaa's division iii. member institutions were all located in wisconsin except dominican university in illinois. lmc schools joined with some schools from the northern illinois-iowa conference in 2006–07, creating the northern athletics conference—now known as the northern athletics collegiate conference. the conference was formed as the wisconsin conference of independent colleges (wcic) in 1969 with seven charter members.