Central Suburban League

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The Central Suburban League is an IHSA-recognized high school extracurricular conference comprising twelve schools located in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Comprised of twelve relatively large high schools, it is among the larger high school conferences in Illinois.

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[edit] Schools

[edit] Former Schools

  • Maine North High School (opened in 1970, the building closed in 1981)
  • New Trier West High School (between 1964 and 82, New Trier was split into a west and east campus. Starting in 1982, the west campus was converted to a freshmen only building.)
  • Niles East High School (Opened in 1938, the school was Niles High School until 1959 when Niles West opened. The school closed in 1980.)
  • Waukegan West High School (between 1975 and 90, Waukegan split into a west and east campus. Starting in 1990, the west campus folded into the east campus.)

[edit] Divisional Alignment

While the divisions' names are geographic, their makeup is not based on a school's location. The North Division includes the schools with the smallest enrollments while the South Division includes the schools with the largest enrollments. Every two years the member school's official enrollment is used to determine division alignment.

Not all activities and sports make use of the division alignment. Chess is a part of the North Subruban Chess League which comprises schools from many conferences. Scholastic Bowl plays as a single twelve team league.

[edit] North Division

[edit] South Division

[edit] History

The CSL traces its history back to the founding of the Suburban League in 1913, of which Evanston and New Trier were both founding members. The league had somewhat fluid membership over several decades. As the population of suburban Chicago grew (and the number of high school with it) schools began leaving to join newer conferences such as the West Suburban Conference (started 1922), the Northwest Suburban (started in 1925, which later became the North Suburban Conference and Mid-Suburban League), and the South Suburban League (started in 1950). With more schools leaving (and newer suburban schools joining more geographically logical conferences), the last bastion of the Suburban League formed the Central Suburban League in 1965, with the Suburban League folding after the 1971-1972 school year

As of the end of the 2007-08 school year, the past and present schools of the CSL have won an impressive 234 state titles in various IHSA sports and activities. Nearly half of these (105) have been won by New Trier (or the two schools it was split into for a time, New Trier East and New Trier West). The league remained relatively stable, with the exception of a few schools folding, and Niles North leaving in 1979 before rejoining in 1991, to balance the league with the closing of Waukegan West.[13]

The split into the divisions occurred to accommodate football teams, which qualified for the playoffs by winning their conference (or division). Thus two divisions doubled the number of automatic bids the conference would receive.[14]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Deerfield H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  2. ^ Evanston Township H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  3. ^ Glenbrook North H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  4. ^ Glenbrook South H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  5. ^ Highland Park H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  6. ^ Maine East H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  7. ^ Maine South H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  8. ^ Maine West and Maine North H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  9. ^ records for all New Trier H.S. IHSA athletics and activities
  10. ^ Niles North H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  11. ^ Niles West and Niles East H.S. IHSA athletic and activity records
  12. ^ records for all Waukegan H.S. IHSA athletics and activities
  13. ^ History of Illinois athletic conferences
  14. ^ History of Illinois football


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