Get ready for Week 4 with our game previews from around Will County and the Joliet area.

Naperville Central put an end to Lincoln-Way East's 21-game winning streak as Seth Lendzion connected on a 30-yard field goal at the horn to win, 20-17.

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The Naperville Central Redhawks hosted the Lincoln-Way East Griffins.

Herald-News Sports Editor Steve Soucie has live coverage from Friday night’s Lincoln-Way East vs. Naperville Central football game here

Week 2 provides a number of interesting matchups before most teams enter their conference slates.

Lincoln-Way East owns a 20-game winning streak, but there will be multiple contenders in the SouthWest Suburban Conference looking to knock the Griffins off their perch.

There will be a lot of new faces lining up in starting positions for Lincoln-Way East, but the Griffins, who have lost one game since the start of the 2017 season, don't feel that means anything has to change.

Although most of the foundations of area high school football schedules remained pretty much the same, some interesting wrinkles were revealed in some of the nonconference portions of team's schedules.

The 2021 Herald-News All-Area Football team is revealed.