Crystal Lake South faces Deerfield in the IHSA Class 3A Grayslake Central Sectional semifinal baseball game Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at Grayslake Central High School.

Prairie Ridge faces Antioch in an IHSA Softball Class 3A Supersectional game on Monday, June 1, 2026 at Kaneland High School in Maple Park.

Crystal Lake Central faces Wauconda in IHSA Class 3A Regional baseball on Thursday, May 28, 2026 at Fred Tipps Field on the campus of Crystal Lake Central High School.

Teams throughout Illinois competed in the 2026 IHSA Boys State Tennis Meet at multiple schools in the northwest suburbs on Thursday, May 28, 2026.

Overcast and high 60s made for ideal conditions for IHSA's girls state track and field championships on Saturday in Charleston.

Wilmington rolls past Coal City 13-1 to move over .500.

Crystal Lake Central meets Wauconda in a nonconference softball game on Friday, March 20, 2026, at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Images from the IHSA Girls State Gymnastics Meet on Friday, Feb. 20, 2025, at Palatine High School.

After a recent passed proposal to expand the football playoffs and extend the season by a week changed the preseason calendar, the IHSA has called a special board meeting to consider moving the start of preseason practice back to accommodate for more time to prepare.

Cary-Grove faces Lakes in a nonconference girls basketball game on Friday Jan. 2, 2026, at Lakes high School in Lake Villa.

Huntley faces Mundelein in a Komaromy Classic girls basketball tournament game on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville.

Crystal Lake South faces Lakes in a Hinkle Holiday Classic boys basketball game on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025, at Jacobs High School in Algonquin.

Jacobs faces Grayslake Central in Hinkle Holiday Classic boys basketball game on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025, at Jacobs High School in Algonquin.

Crystal Lake South faces Wauconda in a Northern Illinois Holiday Classic Championship girl basketball game on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at McHenry High School.

Crystal Lake South faces Grayslake North in a Northern Illinois Holiday Classic semifinal girl basketball game on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, at McHenry High School.

IHSA Proposal 19 was passed by a majority of member schools in an IHSA schoolwide vote. Its implementation will increase the number of playoff qualifiers from 256 teams to 384 teams.

Proposal 19 is on the ballot with a submission that proposes that the playoff field be expanded by 16 teams in each classification with a total of 384 teams qualifying for the postseason. Steve Soucie's uses 2025 data to project what the format could look like.

The CCL/ESCC announced its new alignment for the 2026 and 2027 seasons with many of the league's 24 teams finding themselves in different division than before.