Southern Cook County has long history of great high school basketball players South suburbs have been hoops hotbed for century, producing some of Chicago area’s greatest players.

There was an explosion of interest in boys high school basketball in the late 1970s, thanks in large part to the arrival of three players from Chicago’s West Side and near-western suburbs ...

In high school, the NBA seemed like a far-fetched dream for 10-time All-Star Anthony Davis.. He started becoming that player at Perspectives Charter School in Chicago, where Cortez Hale was ...