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New Trier and Benet Academy face off in the semifinal Friday, March 10, 2023 in Champaign. Benet Academy took the game 64-49 and will play for the state title on Saturday.

The Benet and Geneva girls basketball teams played to the wire Friday afternoon at Illinois State University with Benet holding on to advance to the IHSA Class 4A state championship game.

The Rotary Club of Downers Grove is accepting applications for its annual Charles Dickerman Music Scholarships until March 20.

The foursomes of experienced barbershop singers have been surprising, delighting and serenading sweethearts – both women and men – across the western suburbs with Singing Valentines, announced the Chorus of DuPage.

The presentation is on advancing the discussion of anti-racism and social justice. The speaker is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival, and founding director of the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at the Yale Divinity School.

The Knights (5-4) capped a perfect week — three wins in three games — with a nearly perfect game. They played solid defense, crashed the boards, neutralized Lisle’s height and bulk advantage with active hands and feet on defense and pushed the pace.

Promising to be the boldest and brightest winter lights show ever at the botanical garden, Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum will celebrate its 10th anniversary from Nov. 19 through Jan. 7 in Lisle.

Featuring a counselor and five school superintendents on its panel, League of Women Voters groups from several communities team up to present “Preventing Gun Violence Through a Community of Care.”

The Morton Arboretum has named a new president and CEO to lead the institution into its next century.

Anyone who likes hostas, the country’s most popular perennial, can take part in garden visits, seminars, displays, conversations with fellow hosta lovers, and other events in celebration of their favorite plant.

The champion chorus will present its spring show with a dash of movie trivia competition for audience members, and guest artists will be featured.

Glen Crest Middle School physical education teacher Corey Toppel has dedicated three decades coaching and teaching physical education.

Morton Arboretum will plant 3,000 trees throughout Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties to improve an urban forest threatened by climate change and invasive species.

Tubari Stewart had 24 points, nine rebounds and two blocks in two-plus quarters of play, powering Lisle past Westmont 56-40 to the Lions' seventh win in a row.

The controversy surrounding the decision at Benet Academy to hire a lacrosse coach who is in a same-sex marriage has resurfaced.