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

Friday Night Drive's Team of the Week is here. The 11 best on offense and defense for Week 3 of the fall football season in northern Illinois, as voted on by you.

Bobby Ervin delivered a nearly perfect effort in Bolingbrook's 52-28 win over Minooka on Friday night.

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The Minooka Indians hosted the Bolingbrook Raiders for their season opening football game on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 at Minooka Community School in Huntley.

The Southwest Prairie Conference features some fierce rivalries. Oswego regained the West Division's top spot during the spring but keeping the title won't be easy.

Minooka has plenty of experience to fall back on, particularly on offense, as it sees little reason to deviate from what has worked.

Minooka's Malik Armstrong believes he can contribute in a number of ways on the football field and Northern Illinois seems to be prepared to find out how many there are.

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.