History was made with the Illinois Mr. Basketball award in 2025. Here are the winners of the top high school players in the state.

The Illinois commit averaged 21.1 points ... up 28 first-place votes and was named on 68 of 129 ballots, edging out Wilmette Loyola senior Aubrey Galvan, who received 29 first-place votes ...

Huntley High School graduate Shane Soderwall, a sophomore goalie for Curry College in Massachusetts, earned the Sid Watson ...

The state Department of Children and Family Services by law must make the reports public after examining what went wrong — but it didn’t do that in thousands of instances, the Illinois Answers Project ...

With egg prices so high and Chicago and many suburbs allowing people to raise hens, some are thinking about backyard chickens ...

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A college basketball season that held plenty of promise and potential failed to reach either for Notre Dame. So, what's next ...