The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.

The team headquarters, Halas Hall, is in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois.

The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.

Bernardi suggested East St. Louis, Illinois, because it was filled with old buildings " that exist in New York now, and have that seedy run-down quality " that the team was looking for.

Immediately following the announcement of Del Rio being fired, Weaver also announced that the team would be sold to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan.

Marc Andreessen, the leader of the team that developed Mosaic, left NCSA and, with James H. Clark, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ), and four other former students and staff of the University of Illinois, started Mosaic Communications Corporation.

The fire was investigated by a team led by Rolf H. Jensen, Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, who later went on to found RJA Group.

Donna Cox, leader of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA and a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her team have thrilled millions of people with visualizations for the Oscar-nominated IMAX film " Cosmic Voyage ," the PBS NOVA episodes " Hunt for the Supertwister " and " Runaway Universe ," as well as Discovery Channel documentaries and pieces for CNN and NBC Nightly News.

* Harvey F. C., an early twentieth century U. S. soccer team from Harvey, Illinois

Tyrrell is a 1961 graduate of Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was on the swim team.

The Gateway Grizzlies are a professional baseball team based in the St. Louis suburb of Sauget, Illinois, in the United States.

The team won the first round playoff series against the Southern Illinois Miners and entered the Frontier League Championship Series for the second straight season, a first in franchise history.

The Rockford RiverHawks are a professional baseball team based in the Rockford, Illinois, suburb of Loves Park, in the United States.

Meanwhile, Madison's team moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 2001 to become the Lincoln Saltdogs while teams were awarded to Joliet, Illinois and Gary, Indiana in 2002.

This number grew to seven in 2009 as Zion, Illinois was granted an expansion team known as the Lake County Fielders.

After 13 games into their inaugural season, the team moved to Moline, Illinois and became the Tri-City Blackhawks.

However, on December 27, 1946 — only 13 games into their inaugural season — owner Ben Kerner moved the team to Moline, Illinois, which at that time was part of an area known as the " Tri-Cities "

The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

The Chicago Blackhawks ( spelled as Black Hawks before 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks ) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois.

After a single season, the team then moved to Springfield, Illinois, and were renamed the Redbirds.

Waterman High School was known for its basketball teams and players, such as Duane Swanson ( member of the 1936 US Olympic basketball team ) and Jack Smiley ( member of the 1940's " Whiz Kids " at University of Illinois ).

In 1923, Villa Grove's high school basketball team, the Blue Devils, defeated Rockford 32-29 to win the Illinois state high school basketball championship, a remarkable feat for such a small community.

Buckley is home to the Dutch Masters baseball team, a member of the East Illinois League.

In recent years, the high school boys ' basketball team has reached the 1A state tournament three times, placing second in 2009, third in 2011, and winning the Illinois High School Association Class 1A Championship in 2012.

In 2010, IIT received the Princeton Review's highest sustainability rating among universities in Illinois, tied with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The village is closely tied to the larger neighboring community of Oak Park, Illinois.

The town is also inexorably tied to politician " Long John " Wentworth and his efforts to move the State of Illinois border with Wisconsin from being even with the bottom of Lake Michigan to the current line of where it is now.

* Rod Blagojevich ( D ), governor from 2003 to 2009, and Ryan's successor, was impeached and removed from office by the Illinois General Assembly in a unanimous vote in January 2009 after being tied to multiple " pay to play " schemes, including attempting to sell the former Senate seat of recently elected President Barack Obama ..

Wisconsin tied for first place in the Big Ten in the 2001-02 season, along with Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio State.

However, Iowa's loss to Minnesota cost the Hawkeyes the outright conference crown ; the Hawks finished tied atop the Big Ten Conference standings with Illinois, Michigan, and Michigan State, all of which compiled 6 – 2 league records.

The fate of the Kaskaskia, and the rest of the Illiniwek / Illinois, was irrevocably tied up with that of France.

Illinois Wesleyan is tied for the 71st ranking among liberal arts colleges by US News with nine other institutions.

The Illinois Wesleyan Women's Track and Field Team won the CCIW indoor conference championship in 2008 and went on to be Division III Indoor National Champions for 2008 as well as tied for first in the Oudoor National Championship.

While a student at the University of Illinois, Richards tied for the national collegiate pole vault title and followed that with 20 national Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) titles, including 17 in the pole vault and three in the decathlon.

The school is also host to a Certamen ; a quizbowl-like team, placing first in the 2004 state Latin convention ; the Northern Lights, a nationally competitive winter guard ; the Marching Huskies marching band, who tied for second in the state championship in 2005 and took fourth in state in 2009 ; and a drama department that contributes regularly to the Illinois High School Theatre Fest.

The stadium was dedicated two weeks later, when the Hawkeyes tied Illinois 7 – 7.

He compiled a 14-1 record and tied the Illinois state record for consecutive shutouts with six in a row.

The Mid-American Conference ( MAC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I college athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois.

A recent achievement for the Knights men's basketball team was in the 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament where they made the NCAA Tournament as a sixteenth seed and gave the top seeded Illinois Fighting Illini a huge scare.

NCAA schools such as Florida State University, University of Utah, University of Illinois and Central Michigan University have negotiated with the tribes whose names or images they had used for permission for continued use and to collaborate on portraying the mascot in a way that supposedly honors Native Americans.

In addition to more than 80 Bulls and Blackhawks games each year, the United Center has hosted other sporting events such as University of Illinois basketball, the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament ( from the first tournament in 1998 to 2001, then in odd-numbered years from 2003 to 2007, before the tournament moved permanently to Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis ), the Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament ( hosted four times, including 2011 ), the Roundball Classic, and the Great Eight Classic.

* NCAA Championships, Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, April 15: Afternoon session ( 12: 00 pm ET ) – No. 2 seed UCLA, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 6 Michigan, No. 7 Georgia, No. 10 Arkansas and No. 11 Illinois ; Evening session ( 6 pm ET ) – No. 1 seed Alabama, No. 4 Oregon State, No. 5 Florida, No. 8 Utah, No. 9 Nebraska and No. 12 and host team Kent State.

The University of Illinois will host the 2010 NCAA tennis championship.

It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois.

In 2009, the men's basketball team defeated the University of Illinois in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to advance to the second round game against Gonzaga.

Scheyer led his high school team to an Illinois state basketball championship as a high school All-American while he was named Illinois Mr. Basketball, and the 2009 – 10 Duke Blue Devils to the 2010 NCAA Basketball Championship as the team's captain and point guard and a college All-American.

A respected figure in basketball circles since his early years — Barry was one of the two officials who worked the 1923 Illinois high school basketball championship game — he served on many significant NCAA committees in his later years, and was a primary force in establishing such national playoffs as the NCAA basketball tournament and the College World Series.

Red Grange set an NCAA record at Franklin Field when he rushed for 331 yards in the University of Illinois ' 24-2 victory over Penn on October 31, 1925, before 67, 877 spectators.

In 2001, his first season at Illinois, Self coached a squad of mostly Lon Kruger recruits to a 27-8 record ( 13-3 conference record ), a share of the Big Ten title, and a final Associated Press ranking of 4th in the nation, resulting in the Fighting Illini earning a number ' 1 ' seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Self coached Illinois guards Frank Williams and Cory Bradford, along with guard / forward Sergio McClain, forward Brian Cook, and center Marcus Griffin, to the Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament.

With mostly the same core, Illinois followed up the season with impressive 2002 and 2003 campaigns, but fell in the NCAA Tournament sweet 16 in 2002 to the University of Kansas, and the second round in 2003 to the University of Notre Dame.

In Self's three seasons in Illinois, he led the Fighting Illini to two Big Ten regular-season championships, a Big Ten Tournament title, and three straight NCAA tournament appearances.

In the NCAA Tournament, Self's Jayhawks received a number 1 seed, and advanced to Self's fourth career Elite Eight, with the team garnering commanding wins over 16-seed Niagara and 8-seed Kentucky, as well as a victory over the 4th-seeded Southern Illinois Salukis.

The Jayhawks entered the NCAA tournament as the # 1 seed in the Southwest Region, defeating 16th seed Boston University and 9th seed Illinois to advance to the Sweet 16 where they beat 12th seed University of Richmond.

The Augustana Vikings compete in the NCAA Division III College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin ( CCIW ).

The next season, the Jayhawks went 26 – 7 and fell to the Illinois in the 2001 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen.

After an upset loss to Illinois in part due to a coaching decision to minimize his role, Marinovich improved ; he completed 197 of 321 passes during the regular season for 16 touchdowns and 12 interceptions with a 61. 4 % rate, 0. 1 % behind Bernie Kosar's NCAA freshman record.

On April 4, 2005, Williams shed his title as " the most successful coach to never have won an NCAA ring " as his Tar Heels defeated the University of Illinois in the 2005 NCAA Championship game.