The IHSA state football championships will be played Friday and Saturday at Illinois State’s Hancock Stadium in Normal. This version made with turkey hits all of the notes and is one of the best uses of post-Thanksgiving leftover turkey you’ll find.

Wilmette Loyola Academy is back in the Illinois high school football Class 8A state championship game for the third year in a row. The Ramblers would be the first 8A team to 3-peat since Park Ridge Maine South won three straight from 2008-10.