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Origins of the Chicago Public League can be traced back to its predecessor, the Cook County High School League, which started during 1889-90.Some of the schools that participated in the Cook County League still exist today: Crane (as English High and Manual Training), Englewood, Lincoln Park (as North Division), Hyde Park, Phillips (as South Division), Calumet, Marshall, Austin, Lake (now ...
The Illinois High School Boys Basketball Championship is a single elimination tournament held each spring in the United States. It is organized by the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). In 1939, H. V. Porter of the IHSA coined the term "March Madness" From 1908 to 1971, it was a single tournament contested by nearly all high schools in ...
Simeon is well known in the Chicago area as a high school sports powerhouse. [15] [16] The school sport teams are nicknamed Wolverines. Student-Athletes 2013, Simeon is the first Chicago public school to win four consecutive basketball state titles, and the second statewide. All team seniors are off to college.
Benjamin Wilson Jr. (March 18, 1967 – November 21, 1984) was an American high school basketball player from Chicago, Illinois. [1] Wilson, a Neal F. Simeon Vocational High School basketball player, was regarded as the top high school player in the U.S. by scouts and coaches attending the 1984 Athletes For Better Education basketball camp.
Chicago high schools Farragut and North Lawndale were both disqualified after their Class 3A playoff game ended in a brawl. Brawl disqualifies two teams from high school basketball tournament Skip ...
The Chicago Public High School League and Suburban League offered basketball only in the heavyweight and lightweight classes, after experimenting only a few years with a bantamweight class. The Catholic League added track and field in 1917, but it was not until 1924 that three "country club" sports were added to the league's schedule golf ...
The school won the 2014–15 Illinois High School Association class 3A boys' basketball championship. [17] The boy's basketball program is covered extensively in the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, which features two inner city Chicago players, William Gates and Arthur Agee, commuting to Westchester to attend the school due to its basketball program.
The Cook County High School League in Chicago and its suburbs was one of the pioneer interscholastic leagues in the country. It came together during 1889–1890, conducting its first track and field meet in the spring of 1889, its first football championship in the fall of 1889, and its first baseball championship in the spring of 1890.