Photos, videos, & stories by Vincent D. Johnson
Another Year of Opening Day To State Finals While the year cuts through the middle of the high school sports season, I do keep track of all the high schools I’ve covered and schools I’ve been to. This past year, … Continued
This post will be continuously updated. Check back for more.The 2025-26 high school season started. Adding uni’s as they come. Basketball updates have started. If you’re a sports fan and haven’t checked out Uni-Watch, by Paul Lukas, you’re missing out. … Continued
What do you do when you’re covering both teams in a game that ends in a do-or-die shootout?
Who had the biggest crowds this past weekend at the Illinois High School Association football state finals? Photos from the 2nd quarter of each game reveal the crowds for each school.
A selection of picturesque and artistic photos from high school football games during the 2024 season in Illinois.
Photos from the 2024 high school football game between Mount Carmel H.S. and Joliet Catholic Academy, on Aug. 26, 2007. Links to the story and past photo galleries too.
Photos that have never been seen before since I took them in 1999. A few were published online, most sat in a negative film holder for 25 years, until I scanned them in this summer.
Providence, Mount Carmel, Joliet Catholic, and Geneseo all have multiple game galleries.
Photos from Gordon Tech vs. St. Rita in high school football. A gallery of filmed scanned in from August of 2000.
When cicadas came out in the spring of 2024, high school baseball saw its fair share of the winged spectators.
Throwback photo gallery from the 2007 Chicago Kickoff Classic at Soldier Field. A triple header of high school football games between the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League.