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La Salle-Peru beats both the shot clock and Mendota in the the opening round of the Plano Christmas Classic.

Action in the Loyola (girls) and Plano (boys) tournaments got underway with opening-round games. See results in Monday's Herald-News Roundup

Kiya Newson-Cole scored 19 points and helped lead Lincoln-Way Central to an overtime win over Butler Prep in the Loyola Christmas Tournament

Glenbard South, Downers Grove North and Hinsdale Central girls basketball were winners at the Bill Neibch Falcon Classic and Lyons and York girls basketball were winners at the Montini Christmas Tournament in Monday's roundup.

Grayslake Central pulled away in the fourth quarter to hand Geneva its first loss, 65-53, at Monday's Hinkle Holiday Classic quarterfinal game.

Carson Trivellini scored 21 points and Crystal Lake South dished out 22 assists as a team and the Gators advanced to the semis of the Hinkle Tournament, plus more boys and girls tournament scores from around the area in Mondays Northwest Herald Sports Roundup.

Sycamore and Kaneland came away with victories in their respective holiday tournament openers on Monday.

Lockport shook off a two-game losing streak and posted a 48-36 win over Conant in the Loyola Academy Christmas Tournament behind 11 points and 6 rebounds by Alaina Peetz

Prospect sophomore guard Zoe Black hit two clutch shots, including a 3-pointer, to help the Knights hold off Geneva 63-50 in the first round of the Montini Christmas Tournament on Monday.

Fremd put together a dominant display as it was successful in all facets of the game in a 77-55 win over Hampshire in opening-round play at the Hardwood.

With Northern Illinois dodging bullets all game long Saturday against Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the Huskies found some magic in their 28-20 double-overtime win—and used a little luck of the Irish, too.

Peyton Farrell had 12 points and a game-high nine rebounds and Nikki Kerstein scored 11 of her game-high 18 points in the third quarter as Montini overcame horrible shooting in the first half to beat Neuqua Valley 40-30 in the first round of the Montini Christmas Tournament.

Barrington's Oliver Gray scored 15 of his game-high 22 points in the second half, and the Broncos pulled away from host Jacobs 67-44 on Day 2 of the Hinkle Holiday Classic.

Behind a career-high 39 points from Jayden Riley and 11 rebounds and 7 points from 6-foot-6 Noah Aguado, Yorkville Christian overwhelmed Hinckley-Big Rock, 90-61, during Monday’s opening round game of the 61st annual Plano Christmas Classic.

NIU secured back-to-back bowl wins for the first time since 2010-11 with a thrilling 28-20 victory Saturday in double overtime against Fresno State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Ottawa, which lost a 16-point lead and a nonconference game at Plano last Tuesday, bounced back in the same gym in a big way Monday, running past Sandwich 50-34 in the first game of the 61st Plano Christmas Classic.

Ali Tharwani, who scored a team-high 20 points, hit two big three-pointers in the final two minutes to rally Marmion past Morris 55-52 in Monday's first round of the 61st Plano Christmas Classic.

Lee County Circuit Court Judge Douglas Lee made the ruling against Bahaveshbhai Kalani, the Magnuson Hotel’s owner, Monday at the end of a three-hour hearing.

The game started with the “oldies but goodies” featuring the 40 and over group, which actually started at 37 years up. The venerable Don Smucker, 71, a 1971 Tiskilwa graduate, certainly showed he still has game.

Congratulations to The Times Athlete of the Week, Streator boys wrestling's Aydan Radke

Here are 41 of the best girls volleyball players across The Times coverage area, The 2024 Times All-Area Girls Volleyball Team.

Senior setter Skylar Dorsey's versatility helped this year’s Ottawa Pirates to another successful season, and also carried her to the honor of the 2024 Times Girls Volleyball Player of the Year.

Kane County property transfers from Nov. 25 to Dec. 4, 2024.

Kendall County property transfers from Oct. 28 to Dec. 4, 2024.

More housing is on the way in Crystal Lake as city council unanimously approved a 93-unit apartment complex and a 67-unit expansion in the age-restricted community.

Led by returning state balance beam champion Genevieve Herion and returning All-Stater Edie Condon, the Downers Grove co-op gymnastics team is poised to contend for its second state title.

Elburn's Committee of the Whole is considering making the village a golf cart community.

Plans for the new hospital in Ottawa could be heard as early as January.

Property transfers for Lee, Ogle and Whiteside counties for Dec. 9-15, 2024.

The heavily-charred remains of 1024 W. Hillcrest Drive sat roped off to residents and passersby Monday morning after the City of DeKalb condemned the building due to significant smoke, water and fire damage. A major apartment fire at the three-building residential complex displaced an estimated 60 residents days before Christmas, authorities said.

Multiple DeKalb residents evacuated their apartments in the 1000 block of West Hillcrest Drive Sunday night as crews responded to a multi-building apartment fire. Authorities said they expect to remain on the scene for hours Sunday to fight the blaze and provide emergency aid to impacted families.

Streator senior Noah Russow posted a team-leading 15 goals and 13 assists this past fall. The 4-time Illinois Central Eight All-Conference selection and 3-time IHSSCA All-Sectional honoree is the 2024 Times Boys Soccer Player of the Year.

Here are the best boys soccer players across The Times coverage area, The 2024 Times All-Area Boys Soccer Team.

The Geneva City Council approved nearly $200,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds in three economic incentive agreements with the owner of historic Fargo West State Street buildings.

A DeKalb man and mother were charged after police found more than a dozen cellphone videos of the man strangling and intentionally hurting a 1-year-old baby, according to court records. Police said the baby's mother knew about the videos but did not report them to authorities.

With every one of Yorkville Middle School’s 600 auditorium seats sold out for four consecutive performances of the 16th annual Prism Concert, Justin Heinekamp knows they could have sold out another show based on the calls for tickets he’s had to turn away.

A developer plans almost 400 rental homes at a "luxury" mixed use development off Route 31 in Cary that would also have commercial spaces.

The Serena girls basketball won at Putnam County on Saturday, while the Streator and Seneca boys squads suffered losses.

The Ottawa girls basketball team used a 16-1 second-quarter advantage in defeating Morris 59-39 in the championship game of the Ottawa Holiday Tournament on Saturday at Kingman Gym.

Three Princeton wrestlers won their brackets Saturday in Iowa, the Princeton girls basketball team placed XXXX in the Ottawa tournament and more basketball, wrestling and swimming results in Saturday's NewsTribune roundup.

Minooka boys basketball and Joliet Central and Morris girls basketball were winners in Saturday's Herald-News sports roundup.

Downers Grove North senior Aidan Akkawi is committed to play volleyball at Lindenwood, but he loves basketball so much that he somehow has found a way to compete in club volleyball while starting for the Trojans. He did double duty Saturday in helping lead a crosstown win.

The Sterling girls improved to 11-1, Rock Falls boys won, Sterling fell at the Iowa-Illinois shootout, Sterling boys swimming took second and more in Saturday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Junior Ady Fanta hit four consecutive shots, including two three-pointers, and scored 12 points to spark Downers Grove North's 41-26 win over Downers Grove South.

Griff Powell of Lyons knocked off unbeaten Ulises Rosas of Glenbard West and Lemont's Judah Heeg knocked off unbeaten Zachary Kruse of Hinsdale Central at the 58th Rex Whitlach Invitational on Saturday at Hinsdale Central.

Woodstock girls wrestling finished runner-up at the Whip-Pur Women's Classic, Richmond-Burton boys wrestling won the Rus Erb Tournament, plus more wrestling, girls and boys basketball and girls bowling results in Saturday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Alex Gregorio-Perez took first at Morris for DeKalb on Saturday, a pair of Kaneland wrestlers won at Stillman Valley, DeKalb-Sycamore swimming won at Sterling and Ally Poegel sets a G-K record. Plus other wrestling in the roundup.

Minooka's team took third place at the Morris Reindeer Rumble girls wrestling tournament, while Bolingbrook's Alejandra Flores won the 115-pound bracket to lead Herald-News area wrestlers at the event.

Senior guard Ben Jurzak recently scored his 1,000th career point and his scoring continued Saturday as he helped Jacobs win its opening game in its own Hinkle Holiday Classic. Cary-Grove and Crystal Lake South also won.

Abby Keighron led Wheaton Warrenville South with 10 points in a 61-32 loss to Maine South on Saturday.