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The 2024 Illinois High School Association chess state finals are scheduled for Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria.. More than 1,500 players and coaches from ...
The IHSA was founded on December 27, 1900, at a rump session of the Illinois Principals Association. Known as the Illinois High School Athletic Association for the first 40 years of its existence, the IHSA is the second oldest of the 52 state high school associations.
The following is a list of Illinois High School Association member conferences. Schools that belong to these conferences compete with each other on a local level in athletics and non-athletic activities. As of the 2023-24 school year, there are 70 conferences within the IHSA.
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
The school's chess team has won the IHSA's team chess tournament seven times (1978, 1979, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2009), and has been runner-up three times (1976, 1980, 1989). They came in second in the US National Championship in 1978 on a tiebreak. [ 13 ]
These high schools are all members of the Illinois High School Association. The Conference, organized in 1975, exists primarily for inter-school athletic competition in 21 sports. There are also four non-athletic competitions in which DVC schools participate: Chess, Math competitions, Scholastic Bowl and Speech.
There are 64 teams alive in the Illinois high school football playoffs. Here are at least 36 recruits leading their schools deep into the postseason.
Lena-Winslow placed second in the state for the second year in a row after the 2024 Class 1A IHSA state championship game came to a close, battling all the way until the end.