According to sources, the Illinois High School Association will postpone the state championship football games scheduled for Illinois State University on Saturday because of the impending snowstorm forecasted for the state. Illinois State University will close its campus on Saturday because of the incoming storm.

The scheduled games involved Providence and Wheaton St. Francis in Class 5A, East St. Louis and Fenwick in Class 6A, St. Rita and Brother Rice in Class 7A and Mount Carmel and Oswego in Class 8A.

A significant winter storm is set to hit northern Illinois this weekend, with the National Weather Service upgrading its alert to a Winter Storm Warning from 3 a.m. Saturday through 6 a.m. Sunday. Forecasters say the region should prepare for 6 to 10 inches of snow, with locally highe

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