[JRutledge]

If you are the member of the Illinois High School Association, you play in the playoffs run by the IHSA.

The only separation that exsists, if you want to call it that, is during the football post season, the teams that get knocked out of the playoffs early or did not make the playoffs play in a Chicago Catholic League playoff. Then after they have won the Catholic League Championship, they play the Chicago Public League Champion in what is called the Prep Bowl. The game has traditionally been held at Soldier Field in Chicago. This only involves the school in the Chicago Catholic League and the Chicago Public League (which holds their own tournament as well) teams in football. In Basketball, everyone makes the playoffs, but the Chicago Public League has their own tournament for the city championship. The CPL Champion until last year get and automatic bid to the State playoffs with 7 other teams. But last year they got rid of that process and in basketball everyone throughout the state has to go thru the same steps to advance to the State Finals (Regional, Sectional, Super-Sectional, then State Finals).

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