For the first time since Deron Williams, Dee Brown and Luther Head led Illinois to the 2005 national championship game—finishing that season 37-2—the Fighting Illini are back in the Final Four. No. 3 Illinois punched its ticket March 28 with a 71-59 win over Iowa in Houston and will face No....

What started as a covert breakfast operation in a high school green room has grown into one of Community’s most popular monthly traditions. Club Pancake serves free pancakes to students every third Friday of the month at 7:45 a.m. in the senior cafe. Founded by seniors Tommy Wade and Ryan Robison,...

Boys soccer’s best season of the decade ended with a 4-0 home loss on Nov. 4, with the Iron falling to the eventual IHSA Class 3A State Champions,  the Naperville North Huskies, in the supersectional. The loss closes out Community’s best season since 2017, a year in which the Ironmen tied for...

Community fended off Collinsville to claim the IHSA sectional championship—the program’s third and first since 2017—setting up a home supersectional against No. 1 in-state Naperville North on Tuesday, Nov. 4. The match against the Kahoks brought what head coach Mr. Matt Chapman called “adversity,”...

Community beat the top-seeded Minooka Indians 2-1 on Oct. 28, avenging a 7-0 regular-season loss and earning a spot in Saturday’s IHSA sectional final at Peoria Notre Dame. “We knew coming into the game it was going to be a strong mental battle,” senior forward Logan Lelm said. “Conditions weren’t...

After Iron volleyball’s 4-1 weekend at AutumnFest, Community head coach Ms. Christine Konopasek is one win shy of 400 career victories. The veteran coach will have the opportunity to reach the milestone Oct. 21 on Community’s home court when the 27-5 Ironmen host a 3-21 Danville team.  A victory...