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(CHICAGO) The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported 1,510 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday with 16 additional deaths. The state’s new death toll due to the coronavirus is now at 20,781. For updates, go to dph.illinois.gov, or if questions, call the IDPH HealthLine, toll-free, at 1-800-889-3931.
(CHICAGO) Governor J.B. Pritzker says the state is still not fully ready to completely re-open, however the attendance to outdoor sporting events has been increased. With several new variants of the coronavirus surfacing, medical experts say caution should be observed, even though the state’s positivity rate is slowly dropping and the statewide vaccination process is increasing daily. The Illinois Department of Public Health did agree to allow Illinois High School Association sports to have fans for outdoor events up to 20 percent capacity instead of th
Illinois Coined “March Madness,” NCAA Then Took It
Maybe it s not quite as simple as the headline would indicate, but the truth of the matter is indisputable. Illinois High School athletics first used the term way back in 1939.
I knew absolutely nothing about Illinois connection to March Madness until Monday morning, when Joe Dredge brought up this little nugget of information. He was discussing the Fighting Illini s prospects during the upcoming NCAA tournament when he pointed out Y know, Illinois first used the term March Madness before it was used to describe the current NCAA tournament.
Well, to be honest about my sports knowledge (or lack thereof), I didn t know that at all. I thought about pretending to know it because I m a guy, and if there s one thing most guys hate to admit it s that they might not know something about sports. Any sports. Doesn t matter if it s the big three of football, baseball, and basketball or if it s something way out there like Bo-taoshi
TF North High School students Destinee Owens and Kayla Gilmore both earned top-three finishes in the Illinois High School Association state speech tournament last month.
March is one of the busiest months on the sports calendar, and last year was no exception. Until it wasn’t. Selection Sunday was days away, and Ayo Dosunmu and Illinois were on the cusp of ending a six-year NCAA Tournament drought. The Cubs and White Sox were a month into spring training, eyeing opening day with playoff aspirations. The Bulls and Blackhawks, well, were playing. The Bears and .
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