Members 7 Region Northern Illinois Divisions 1 | State Illinois Counties Kane and McHenry Year Formed 2016 | |
The Kishwaukee River Conference (KRC) is an organization of seven high schools in northern Illinois. These high schools are members of the Illinois High School Association.
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The high schools of the Kishwaukee River Conference are located in McHenry and Kane counties.
History
On November 8, 2013, it was announced that Woodstock and Woodstock North planned to leave the Fox Valley Conference by 2015 and create a new conference. After rumors that members of the Big Northern Conference's East Division might join this new conference, it was announced on November 19 that five BNC members - Burlington Central, Genoa-Kingston, Harvard, Johnsburg (which, at the time, was still in the Fox Valley Conference, but was joining the BNC as the start of the 2014-2015 school year) Marengo, and Richmond-Burton were invited to join the new conference, creating a proposed 8-team conference. The next day, it was announced that the name for this new conference will be the Kishwaukee River Conference. In February 2014, it was reported that Harvard and Genoa-Kingston had decided to remain in the BNC, while Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg remained undecided; Harvard later announced that they would, in fact, leave the BNC for the KRC, with the first season of the KRC to be during the 2016-2017 school year. In June 2014, Richmond-Burton and Johnsburg both voted to officially become charter members of the KRC in 2016.
Membership
The conference's current members, as of 2016-2017: