To be honest, the Chicago-land schools had a big contingent on here and we threw around a lot of discussions like who was headed South for a Spring trip, what teams were the teams to beat, what players were ones to follow, etc. In the South, myself and others answered those same questions. Besides a good north/south discussion, Chicago land had great discussions on conferences and often who was scheduled on the bump when such and such school played. I coach HS Baseball then and so, I always ran into Chicago land schools in tournaments. We often played Tinley Park Andrew, Oak Forest, ... at some point in the season and back then, more than a few HS coaches were on this site and followed some of these clashes. My teams were pretty good back in the day. Naturally, draft day was also pretty special. I made a lot of friends back then and understand that many of them have moved on since their sons stopped playing. Still, there is a lot of room for getting this forum back on track and reading about baseball from the State of Illinois.
Take care,
Darrell