Recent Blog Entries

I usually herd my kids up to bed at 8 p.m., but last Wednesday I let them stay up past their bedtime to watch President Obama’s State of the Union address.  

Tony Rubino and Fred Dede wrestled at Leyden a few years earlier than St. Charles East coach Steve Smerz, who remembers watching both compete when he was in middle school.

A down weekend for Batavia sends the Bulldogs tumbling down the rankings. Here are the updated boys basketball rankings as of Feb. 8, with a Bulldogs-Vikings rematch on tap at the end of the week.

Readers sound off about the world around them:

Even though the Geneva boys lost and the Geneva girls won, Coach Sly can't help but be much more impressed with the Vikings' boys squad on this Friday night.

In Thursday's Chronicle, I asked readers to send me an e-mail with their reasons for the lower voter turnout. The following are what three readers had to say:

The IHSA on Thursday released assignments for its April 23 bass fishing sectionals, and hardly made a splash where Chronicle-area teams were concerned.

Wednesday's national signing day passed without undefeated Batavia senior wrestler Logan Arlis committing to a college.