Girls highschool basketball: Simeon beats Kenwood, wins

Simeon’s Aneesah Morrow believes Chicago is large enough to have greater than two ladies basketball powerhouses. Marshall and Young are synonymous with the game within the metropolis, however the Morrow and the Wolverines are prepared to affix the dialog. “We want to add our name to that list,” Morrow mentioned. “Simeon has never won a state title before, so that is our goal: to win city and state.” The Wolverines are midway there after rallying from 13 factors down within the first half Sunday to beat Kenwood 69-63 within the Public League title sport at Jones Armory. Morrow, a junior ahead averaging 24.5 factors a sport, missed her first 4 photographs earlier than discovering a groove.

Heat restored at Kenwood Academy on day of file chilly

Heat was restored Tuesday at Kenwood Academy High School after the heating system broke down on a day of record-breaking freezing temperatures. “This morning, we became aware that one of our motors failed, which resulted in our school losing heat circulation,” Chicago Public Schools mentioned in a letter to oldsters of the college. Heat was restored simply after four p.m., college officers mentioned. Crews labored to repair an tools failure within the heating system on the college, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave., in keeping with a Chicago Fire Department spokesman. No one was evacuated, and crews with CPS’s constructing division labored on the difficulty, Chicago fireplace mentioned. School officers mentioned they checked temperatures within the