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    The Olympic Conference was a high school conference in northwest Illinois in existence from 1976 to 2010. The conference participated in athletics and...
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  • Olympic Conference may refer to: Olympic Conference (Illinois) Olympic Conference (Indiana) Olympic Conference (New Jersey) Olympic Congress, a large...
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    Illinois. For many decades the conference consisted of ten prominent universities, which accounts for its name. On August 2, 2024, the conference expanded...
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    The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana...
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  • The following is a list of Illinois High School Association member conferences. Schools that belong to these conferences compete with each other on a...
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  • Al Joyner (category Sportspeople from East St. Louis, Illinois)
    St. Louis, Illinois. He is the 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. He was also the coach and husband of the late four-time Olympic medalist Florence...
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    Raven Saunders (category Southern Illinois Salukis women's track and field athletes)
    at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, throwing a distance of 19.79 m (64 ft 11 in). They won two NCAA collegiate titles at Southern Illinois University in the shot...
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    Rivers Conference, also known as the TRAC-8 (Three Rivers Athletics Conference), is a high school conference in northwest Illinois. The conference participates...
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  • 1982. Western Illinois announced on May 12, 2023 its departure from the Summit League to become a full member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in most...
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  • Central Conference is a high school conference in western central Illinois. The conference participates in athletics and activities in the Illinois High...
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    Football Conference while most other teams compete in the Missouri Valley Conference. The fight song is Go, You Redbirds. Athletics at Illinois State consists...
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    Hal Henning (category American International Olympic Committee members)
    (1919–1988) was an American dentist from Napierville Illinois, who was chair of the U.S. Olympic Swim Committee and then president of the International...
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  • Brooklyn Rail [1] 'Illinois Blue Book 1979-1980,' Biographical Sketch of Goudyloch E. Dyer, pg. 149 "Kathleen Doyle". United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee...
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    Jordyn Poulter (category Sportspeople from Naperville, Illinois)
    the University of Illinois Fighting Illini from 2015 to 2018. Poulter won gold with the national team at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Poulter was born...
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    Jackie Joyner-Kersee (category Sportspeople from East St. Louis, Illinois)
    news.illinois.edu. Retrieved June 10, 2023. "UCLA Media Guide" (PDF). Retrieved September 5, 2017. Thomas, Jazmine (July 18, 2024). "At 1984 Olympics, Jackie...
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    Perdita Felicien (category Illinois Fighting Illini women's track and field athletes)
    title in 2003. She became the first University of Illinois female athlete to be named the Big Ten Conference "Athlete of the Year", and also earned NCAA Female...
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    activity." UIC competes in NCAA Division I Missouri Valley Conference. The University of Illinois Chicago traces its origins to several health colleges founded...
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    Dana Rettke (category Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois)
    in the Big Ten Conference, Rettke decided to focus on volleyball after feeling overwhelmed during an open gym practice with Illinois Fighting Illini...
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  • Erin Virtue (category Illinois Fighting Illini women's volleyball coaches)
    School where she helped lead the team to back-to-back Suburban Catholic Conference Championships. She was named to the 2000 all-state team by the Chicago...
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    border, were acquired by the state between 1971 and 1982. The Illinois Beach Resort and Conference Center is located at the south beach. The North Point Marina...
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    school located in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States. It is named after Adlai E. Stevenson II, the 31st Governor of Illinois. In 1964, growing disagreement...
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    Illinois Press. pp. 38. ISBN 0-252-01701-3. Bertil Sandström. sports-reference.com Newman, Saul (8 August 2018). "Why Grandpa boycotted the Olympics"...
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    "Western Illinois University to Join the OVC in 2023-24" (Press release). Ohio Valley Conference. May 12, 2023. Retrieved May 12, 2023. "Western Illinois University...
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    students arrived on campus in 1899. Eastern Illinois was a member of the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1912 to 1970. From 1978 to 1982...
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    Joe Rau (category Olympic wrestlers for the United States)
    High School in Chicago, Illinois, but never placed at the state tournament. He was an Illinois state qualifier, two-time conference champion and freestyle...
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    The Illinois Fighting Illini (/ɪˈlaɪnaɪ/) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The university...
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  • 2022). "Olympic figure skating champion Yuna Kim blasts decision to allow Kamila Valieva to compete after failed doping test". Insider. "Illinois Skater...
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    the Mid-Continent Conference seven years later in 1989. It was one of six universities along with Cleveland State, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin–Green Bay...
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    Susan Saint James (category Actresses from Illinois)
    president of the Testor Corporation. Saint James was raised in Rockford, Illinois, where she began modeling as a teenager. In her younger school years she...
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  • Morolake Akinosun (category Track and field athletes from Illinois)
    All-American (5 at Texas; 4 at Illinois). Morolake Akinosun as an Illinois Fighting Illini freshman won a Big Ten Conference in 60 meters in 2013. Morolake...
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