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Here's a list of some of northern Illinois' best sports bars for watching your favorite team.
Cubs President of Business Operations Crane Kenney describes agony of playoff baseball and other details of what its like to run a Major League Baseball team in Joliet on Tuesday.
A McHenry County judge could rule Friday if a Marian Central Catholic High School wrestler and coach should e suspended. How did we get here?
As heat index values climb into the 100s, area schools are announcing several high school sports events set for Tuesday have been postponed.
Inductees will be introduced at halftime of the Sept. 28 football game with Dakota.
The Commercial Street Criterium Cycling Race will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. around Village Green and Commercial Street in Plainfield.
A 15-year-old Morrison High School student is hitting all the right marks on the shooting range.
After a season fraught with complications, Luke Winder, a former IHSA state pole vaulting champion and owner of Rise Pole Vault in Joliet, placed sixth at his first Olympic trials in Oregon June 23.
As the Chicago Bears juggle two stadium sites now in limbo, they've responded to a proposal to resolve outstanding tax issues with Arlington Heights, village officials confirm.
Karen Miles and Carolyn Hohenboken have been kayaking on the Hennepin Canal for over a decade. Their group – now known as the Yak Yak Sisters– unofficially started in 2014 after Carolyn’s husband got the women a kayak the previous fall.
Fitzgerald has been the Steelmen baseball coach for 11 years, but now transitions to the main role for Joliet Central athletics.
District 202 sends athletes to the Illinois Special Olympic Summer Games in the first year for the middle school program.
Paschal: With the end of the official high school sports season and in conjunction with our sports photo contest, I thought I’d write a column of tips on sports photography.
Check out a selection of images from Shaw Local's Alex T. Paschal of his favorite sports pictures of the spring season.
Sixteen awards were given out to teams and individuals during the 2024 Shaw Media Illinois Valley Sports Hall of Fame at the Auditorium Ballroom in La Salle.
Former IHSA state pole vaulting champion from Plainfield, Luke Winder, will have a chance to compete on team USA in pole vaulting when he competes at the Olympic Trials in Oregon next month.
Seventeen Bulldogs athletes will compete in track and field, referred to as athletics by Summer Games organizers, and in soccer skills.
The St. Charles Park District offers a number of sports camps that focus not only on learning new athletic skills, but the importance of persistence, teamwork and sportsmanship.
Seven months ago, Algonquin resident Alison Wright, 52, took home the silver medal at the adult Gymnastics Masters Team World Cup competition in Germany. Now she returns to the international stage.
Drag racing at Joliet track runs Friday through Sunday. The Joliet Police Department issued a traffic alert.
The Oswego Wildcats Basketball Junior and Silver teams were recently recognized by the Oswego SD308 Board for their achievements in the Special Olympics state competition held in Bloomington-Normal in March.
Will County Sheriff's Police Deputies Victoria Sims Janovyak and Mike Janovyak have been working for seven years to increase fundraising and participation for Special Olympics in Will County through their department.
LIV Golf tour will bring some of world's top golfers to Bolingbrook in September.
At 66 years old, Cindy Clay Crouse is better than ever after winning second in a national adult figure skating competition.
Officials from the Village of New Lenox broke ground Monday on the new Crossroads Sports Complex, where it hopes to host large youth sports tournaments starting in spring 2025.
Joseph Awinongya Jr., 16, of Joliet, also known as “Jojo the Boxer,” won the junior open in his weight class in the Chicago Golden Gloves.
The Old Timers Baseball Association of Will County donated $20,500 to 27 nonprofit youth baseball and softball teams on Monday night and $500,000 through the years.
The winning design was selected from among 60 entries
Swiftie Night, Ghostbusters Night some of the new promotional highlights for this season
The Illinois House of Representatives passed a proclamation in honor of Cary-Grove's 2023 football championship.
Nominations for 2024 awards are due by May 1
The high school girls lacrosse season is just around the corner. Here are previews of teams from around the Kane County Chronicle coverage area.
The high school boys lacrosse season is just around the corner. Here are previews of teams from around the Kane County Chronicle coverage area.
Column introducing Hart Pisani, the newest addition to the sports reporting team
2020 Newman Central Catholic graduate and Illinois State junior Kiley Sanders had a day to remember on Jan. 19, recording four personal-bests on Day 1 of the Larry Wieczorek Track & Field Invite.
View Sauk Valley Photographer Alex T. Paschal's news, sports and feature photos from the Sauk Valley for the week of Jan. 17 -24, 2024.
A drone soccer match consists of two teams with each player flying a drone ball over the flying zone. The match is divided in three periods, or sets.
Drone soccer clubs at Reagan Middle School and Dixon High School have put the district on the map. Dixon's school district has been chosen to host a district qualification tournament for the rising sport in February.
A look back on the week of prep sports in Will County
Take a look back to the sports photos of 2023 chosen by photographer Alex T. Paschal as his favorite of the year.
A look back a some of the best photos from events and happenings in 2023 around Will County.
Last summer, Rock Falls native KJ Conklin took the chance of a lifetime. Less than a year later, he has memories that will last a lifetime.
The Dixon High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee will honor the 2024 class of inductees at the Hall of Fame reception on Feb. 3 at the Post House Ballroom in Dixon.
Sterling Newman won the Oregon Thanksgiving Tournament on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023 by beating South Beloit in the championship game. Oregon took fourth after falling too Rockford Christian.
Trainers Oscar Hernandez and Kenny Bragg celebrated the grand opening of their new Spartan Boxing Club in Lockport this month after over ten years of floating between suburban gyms.
The Sauk Valley Community College women's volleyball team defeated Moraine Valley in the Region IV tournament championship to advance to NJCAA championship tournament in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, next week.
The Sauk Valley Community College women's volleyball team won its regional quarterfinal match on Wednesday and will play in a regional semifinal in Madison on Saturday.
Joliet Junior College announced Gary Woods II as the first coach of its new men's and women's combined wrestling program after an extended search.
Stadium Journey review website places Duly Health and Care Field second-best among independent ballparks
Big Red, as he is now known, was named as the result of a recent elementary-school competition.