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Cook County High School League (1889–1913) Corn Belt Conference (1950–2017) Des Plaines Valley Conference (1963-1985) East Okaw Conference (1981-1995) Eastern Illinois Conference (1952-1969) Four Rivers Conference (2000-2006) Fox Valley Conference (1952-1966) Gateway East Conference (1979-1983) Greater Midwestern Conference (1983-1986)
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 ...
Those original members included Bloom, Blue Island, Chicago University, Kankakee, Thornton Fractional and Thornton. The league continued to add schools as time moved forward with Argo joining in 1938 and Lockport in 1939. University High School left in 1939, leaving a league that maintained seven schools for 14 years.
The Prep Bowl is an annual contest played between the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League and was long for most of its history played at Chicago's Soldier Field. It was first played in 1927, though after a forfeit in 1928, was not played again until 1933, and was the premier high school football event in Illinois until the ...
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States.Headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia, [1] and currently owned by Bowlero Corporation since 2019, [2] the PBA's membership consists of over 3,000 members worldwide. [3]
The conference was formed in the spring of 1925 with seven original members: Antioch, Arlington, Barrington, Libertyville, Palatine, Warren, and Wauconda.By 1937, the conference had grown to 13 members with the additions of Leyden in 1926, Bensenville (renamed Fenton in 1955) in 1927, Ela-Vernon (renamed Lake Zurich in 1965) in 1928, Grant and Lake Forest in 1935, and Niles in 1937.
R&B superstar Chris Brown spent Saturday in Peoria, bowling at Landmark Lanes. He was in town practicing at Peoria Civic Center for shows in Chicago.
To replace Palatine, North Chicago left the Tri County to join the North Suburban, also in 1964. The league would continue for ten years, but in 1973 Woodstock would leave and Lake Forest would come back. In addition to Lake Forest, the conference also welcomed Dundee-Crown and Mundelein that same year, taking the total number of schools to 10.