Big Twelve Conference (Illinois)


The Big Twelve Conference is a high school athletic conference in the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), based in Central Illinois. While the name implies that the conference has twelve schools, there are actually only eleven schools currently active, due to other schools either closing, ending offering varsity athletics, or changing conferences.

This article is about the Big Twelve Conference in Central Illinois. For the Big Twelve in Northern Illinois, see Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference. For the NCAA athletic conference in the Central United States, see Big 12 Conference. For the Brazilian football group, see Big Twelve (Brazilian football).
Big Twelve Conference
ConferenceIHSA
No. of teams11
RegionCentral Illinois


10km
6miles
Urbana
Richwoods
Notre Dame
Community West
Normal Community
Manual
Central
Centennial
Locations of Current Big Twelve Schools

The conference was indirectly responsible for the demise of the Capitol Conference in 1983 after voting to remove Springfield High School and add four schools from that conference.

All of the schools in the conference are located in cities on Interstate 74 which runs through central Illinois.

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