The Enchanted Forest, the long closed indoor amusement park in Utica, will become a sports complex.

La Salle-Peru senior Emma Jereb was voted NewsTribune Athlete of the Week after helping the Cavaliers to two victories to earn a share of the Interstate 8 Conference title.

Here's a list of Ogle County property transfers for Oct. 27-31, 2025.

Prairie Ridge's Emmie Foster won the Class 2A Lake Girls Cross Country Sectional championship to lead the Wolves to state, Dundee-Crown co-op won the Fox Valley Conference Girls Swimming Invite, and more in Saturday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Oregon freshman Anya Anaya is the Sauk Valley Athlete of the Week. She placed 11th at the regional and wrapped up the season strong with a personal record at the sectional.

Here's the list of Lee, Whiteside and Ogle counties’ property transfers for Oct. 20-24, 2025.

The Sandwich girls cross country team - led by sectional champion Sunny Weber - advanced to next weekend's state meet in Peoria, while Somonauk's Landin Stillwell also earned a trip to Detweiller Park for the boys event. That and more in The Times Saturday Roundup.

St. Patrick used a big second quarter to take control in a 49-28 win over Wauconda in a Class 5A first-round playoff game Saturday.

Coal City's boys soccer team won its first sectional title with a 2-1 win over Manteno in the IHSA Class 1A Coal City Sectional, three area cross country teams and five individuals qualified for state and more in Saturday's Daily Journal roundup.

Providence, Lockport and Wilmington were among first-round football playoff winners, Coal City won its first boys soccer sectional title and more in Saturday's Herald-News Roundup

The York boys and girls cross country teams repeated as Class 3A Lake Park Sectional champions Saturday.

The Kays got timely plays on both sides of the ball, including fourth-quarter touchdowns from Kymani Billings and Ezekiel Sherrod, to get past Lemont in a physical, defensive-minded Class 5A playoff game at Kankakee Saturday.

Dixon boys cross country advanced to state as a team after four top-15 finishes and a sectional title. Dixon's Daniela Lovett took third, Milledgeville and West Carroll football won and more in Saturday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Clifton Central scored 24 unanswered points in its 24-6 win over Knoxville in the first round of the IHSA Class 1A playoffs, getting three passing touchdowns from Brady Shule.

Grant Pomaranski threw for four touchdowns and ran for two scores as St. Anne pulled away in the second half to beat Metro-East Lutheran 39-20 in the first round of the Illinois 8-Man Football Association playoffs.

Princeton's Payton Frueh and Amboy's Henry Nichols qualified for state cross country and more in Saturday's NewsTribune roundup.

Freshman Lennox Szymonik placed fourth individually and led Jacobs to a state berth with a sixth-place finish Saturday at the Class 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional.

The Wheaton Academy boys soccer team's season came to an end Saturday with a 2-1 overtime loss to Streamwood in the Class 2A Geneva Sectional final.

Kaneland's Carson Kaiser cruised to a sectional title and helped the Knights qualify as a team, the Genoa-Kingston girls qualified as a team and more cross country results.

Amboy began its quest for a third straight Illinois 8-Man state championship with a 68-8 win over Milford-Cissna Park on Saturday.

Richmond-Burton was held scoreless, and Chicago Academy's Bryan Juarez scored two second half goals to lift the Cougars past the Rockets 3-0 in their Class 1A Johnsburg Sectional championship on Saturday.

Pelon Munoz scored the game-winning goal four minutes into the second overtime, his second of the game, to help South Elgin to a 3-2 victory over St. Charles North for its first Class 3A sectional title in school history.

Berwyn resident Juan Hernandez dreamed of playing against his hometown Morton team. The St. Laurence senior’s reality exceeded his dreams as he scored the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over Morton during Saturday’s Class 3A Hinsdale Central Sectional championship game.

A wooded area near Woodstock houses a little known, long-abandoned and vandalized cemetery from the 1800s. McHenry County's treasurer hopes to find an entity to care for the property and the graves.

Bradley-Bourbonnais ran for 264 yards and got a pair of special teams touchdowns from Jamir Burt in its 42-21 home win over Shepard in Friday's IHSA Class 6A postseason opener.

TJ Lewis ran for 181 yards and two touchdowns to help lead Bolingbrook to a 30-20 win over Oswego East in the first round of the Class 8A playoffs Friday night.

Herscher drove down and struck first in Friday's Class 3A first round playoff game at Bishop McNamara, but the Fightin' Irish scored five unanswered touchdowns to down the Tigers and move on.

Batavia forced five turnovers on defense, two of which were returned for touchdowns, to help secure a 56-0 victory over Hoffman Estates and advance to the second round of the Class 7A playoffs.

The Mendota boys soccer team won its second consecutive sectional championship with a 6-0 win over Harvest Westminster Christian on Friday.

Meet this week's Daily Journal Athlete of the Week, Kankakee goalkeeper Nathan Sanchez.

A civil trial will begin Monday in Whiteside County Circuit Court to determine whether the widow of a Sterling firefighter, killed in the line of duty in 2021, should be paid damages in connection with his death

La Salle County authorities have identified the victim killed in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday on Interstate 39 between Oglesby and Tonica.

Kankakee two-way senior standout Cedric Terrell III is proud to represent not just himself, but a large, well-respected family in the Kankakee community with his name. And while he may be the third, he's made a name for himself on the gridiron.

Stow Law captured the championship of the 2025 Ottawa Soccer Club U14 city tournament.

Downers Grove South and Glenbard West won three-set regional finals and Benet, Downers Grove North, Fenwick, Hinsdale South, Lemont, Montini, Nazareth, St. Francis, Timothy Christian and Westmont also won volleyball regional titles Thursday.

In a three-set thriller to remember, No. 1 seed Watseka was able to get past Grant Park to win the Class 1A Grant Park Regional championship on Thursday.

Trailing 22-20 and facing the end of its season, Morris scored the final five points of the match to pull out a 21-25, 25-9, 25-22 victory over Sterling in the Class 3A Sterling Regional final and earn its first regional title since 2015.

Heather Buhle helped get Newark off to great starts in both sets with her potent serving and earned the final point in a wild finish in the opening set of a 25-22, 25-13 sweep of Serena in Thursday's Class 1A Yorkville Christian Regional final.

Richmond-Burton and Hampshire both reached 30 wins and claimed back-to-back regional titles, Burlington Central won its second in a row, Marian Central earned its first since 2016, and more in Thursday's Northwest Herald sports roundup.

The Putnam County volleyball team pulled out the first set Thursday, but Orion bounced back to beat the Panthers 26-28, 25-11, 25-10 in the Class 1A Putnam County Regional championship.

The Fieldcrest volleyball team lost to Cissna Park in the Class 1A Woodland Regional championship, plus more in Thursday's NewsTribune roundup.

The Manteno girls volleyball team - led by junior Maddie Gesky - was solid throughout a 25-15, 25-21 victory over host Seneca in Thursday's Class 2A regional championship match. It's the first postseason title for the Panthers since 2017.

St. Charles North used a combination of a versatile attack at the net and play behind the service line to get past Naperville Central (25-13, 25-18) to win its second straight Class 4A regional title.

Wilmington's postseason came to an abrupt end when the Wildcats were upset by Pontiac in Thursday's Class 2A Herscher Regional championship.

Taylor Carroll had 12 kills, and senior basketball standout Emma O’Brien and freshman Olivia Pora each had five as Lyons closed out York 25-23, 25-20 to win the Class 4A York Regional title.

The Dwight girls volleyball team captured the program's first regional championship since 2009 on Thursday, while Sandwich and Fieldcrest had seasons come to a close in regional finals.

Addi Smith had 26 assists, pushing her past 1,000 for her career, and Prairie Ridge's girls volleyball team won its own Class 3A regional title with a 25-9, 25-12 win over Crystal Lake South on Thursday night.

Cissna Park won its third straight regional title and Beecher claimed its first regional crown since 2022 while both Kankakee and Gardner-South Wilmington came up short in their respective regional championships.

Kaneland, Genoa-Kingston and Hiawatha had their volleyball season come to an end.

Sycamore trailed 23-19 after a lopsided loss in the first set on Thursday in the Class 3A Rochelle Regional championship. But they stormed back to win the second set, then won a third-set that featured 15 ties to claim the regional crown, 13-25, 26-24, 25-23.