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Chicago Hope's defense suffocated St Anthony as the Bulldogs fell in their Class 1a State Semifinal 56-50 at the State Farm Center. Brock Fearday led the Bulldogs with a double-double with 26 points a...

The Franklin Park boys varsity bowlers beat Breese at Salem Bowl. High games on the day came from Kai Graham 193 and Abram Jett 189. The JV boys beat Summersville behind Grant Squibb's 181 and Carter ...

The SC Lady Falcons season came to an end falling to Central A&M in their IESA Regional championship 19-25, 23-25. The Lady Falcons season ends at 21-3. Bella McDowell received the IESA Outstandin...

Franklin Park will open up on Thursday night hosting the one night regional. The top seed will take on Olney at 5pm followed by Mt Carmel and Flora. The winners play at 7pm for the trip to state. Cent...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Ryan Graves scored 2:17 into the game and the Pittsburgh Penguins never trailed Thursday night in a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Blues. Graves' goal was his first of the season, and Co...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Kylan Boswell scored a career-high 24 points and four other Illinois players finished in double figures as the 24th-ranked Fighting Illini beat Iowa 106-94 in a wild second-round B...

CHICAGO (AP) - Coby White scored 31 points, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Brooklyn Nets 116-110 on Thursday night. White extended his streak of 20-point games to a career-best seven, helping the Bull...

Believe It or DON'T On this day in 1781, William Herschel discovered Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the aid of a telescope. Believe It or DO...

The Salem Wildcats will be in a new conference for the 2026-27 school year. The school was invited and has voted to accept the invitation to join the Southern Illinois River to River. Without specific...

Eighth-seeded Kaskaskia defeated number five seed Lincoln Trail, 63-57, to reach Friday's championship game of the NJCAA Central District Region 24 tournament at Rend Lake. The Blue Devils got a 12-fo...