PALATINE, Ill. (WLS) -- A suburban high school girls flag football team has become the first-ever Illinois state champions in that sport. On Monday, the William Fremd High School students were ...

In the fall, Illinois joined the nationwide wave in adding girls flag football, with the IHSA holding its first state finals — Palatine Fremd defeated Rockford Guilford 24-12 in the first state ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker with which some have burdened the Illinois state flag, a gleaming white banner emblazoned with the state’s bald eagle-themed ...

The Palatine school packed its gymnasium in support of a new chapter of girls sports. On Saturday, the Vikings won Illinois' first ever "fully sanctioned" flag football state championship.