Central Suburban League

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Central Suburban League
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Conference IHSA
Founded1965
No. of teams12
Region North Shore suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
Official website Official website

The Central Suburban League is an IHSA-recognized high school extracurricular conference comprising 12 public schools located in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago. Comprising 12 relatively large high schools, it is among the larger high school conferences (by student population) in Illinois. [1]

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Central Suburban League
Current locations of Central Suburban League Schools

Schools

SchoolTownTeam NameColors IHSA Classes 2/3/4ReferenceCounty
Deerfield High School Deerfield Warriors   AA/3A/4A [2] Lake
Evanston Township High School Evanston Wildkits   AA/3A/4A [3] Cook
Glenbrook North High School Northbrook Spartans   AA/3A/4A [4] Cook
Glenbrook South High School Glenview Titans   AA/3A/4A [5] Cook
Highland Park High School Highland Park Giants   AA/3A/4A [6] Lake
Maine East High School Park Ridge Demons   AA/3A/4A [7] Cook
Maine South High School Park Ridge Hawks    AA/3A/4A [8] Cook
Maine West High School Des Plaines Warriors   AA/3A/4A [9] Cook
New Trier High School Winnetka Trevians   AA/3A/4A [10] Cook
Niles North High School Skokie Vikings   AA/3A/4A [11] Cook
Niles West High School Skokie Wolves   AA/3A/4A [12] Cook
Vernon Hills High School Vernon Hills Cougars   AA/2A/3A [13] Lake

Former schools

Divisional alignment

While the divisions' names are geographic, their makeup is not based on a school's location. The North Division includes the schools with the smaller enrollments while the South Division includes the schools with the larger enrollments. Every two years the member school's official enrollment is used to determine division alignment.

North DivisionSouth Division
Niles NorthEvanston
Maine WestGlenbrook South
Highland ParkMaine South
Maine EastNew Trier
Niles WestDeerfield
Vernon HillsGlenbrook North

Not all activities and sports make use of the division alignment. In chess, teams compete as a part of the North Suburban Chess League which comprises schools from many conferences. Scholastic Bowl plays as a single twelve team league.

Niles North moved to the CSL South for the 2016-'17 season after former South Division school Waukegan was replaced with Vernon Hills. Vernon Hills, which had the smallest enrollment in the conference at that point, was placed in the North Division.

In the 2019-2020 season, Glenbrook North and Niles North swapped divisions because of a division realignment.

In the 2023-2024 season, Deerfield and Niles West swapped divisions because of a division realignment.

History

The CSL traces its history back to the founding of the Suburban League in 1913, of which Evanston and New Trier were both founding members. The league had somewhat fluid membership over several decades. As the population of suburban Chicago grew (and the number of high schools with it) schools began leaving to join newer conferences such as the West Suburban Conference (started 1922), the Northwest Suburban (started in 1925, which later became the North Suburban Conference and Mid-Suburban League), and the South Suburban League (started in 1950). With more schools leaving (and newer suburban schools joining more geographically logical conferences), the Central Suburban League was founded in 1965, the last major conference to be carved from the old Suburban League. The last remaining bastion of the Suburban League started joining these other leagues, and finally folded after the 1974–1975 school year.

As of the end of the 2007–08 school year, the past and present schools of the CSL have won 233 state titles in various IHSA sports and activities. They have finished in second place 261 times. Nearly half of these (105 state titles and 113 state runners-up) have been won by New Trier (or the two schools it was split into for a time, New Trier East and New Trier West). Evanston adds 47 state titles and 49 runner-up prizes. The league has remained stable (except for divisional realignment) since Niles North returned to the league in 1991. [15]

During Winter 2016, the CSL Athletic Directors voted 7-5 for a division realignment system. The system incorporates enrollment and athletic success in determining division placement. Every three years, points are tallied and the top six teams are placed in the South Division, while the other six are in the North Division. Before 2016, divisions were determined only by enrollment. Glenbrook North and Niles North were the first schools to swap divisions in the 2019-2020 season. [16]

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Central Suburban League

Notable athletes in major sports (since 1965)

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