As a proud Manteno Valedictorian and 20 year veteran of the Kankakee County Planning Commission, I've been to Herscher many times (and been accused of being an alter-ego of the HHS guy too many times to count). I have played basketball & baseball there and ran many track meets at Seebach Stadium when it was new (and the only all-weather track in the old KVC) in the early / mid 80's. I played at the Limestone middle school (on the rubber '70s era gym floor and grass track) and the Bonfield elementary. And I played at RUCE (Reddick Union Hill Cabery Essex) prior to the district closing and being chopped up between Reed-Custer, Herscher, Tri-Point and Dwight - Reddick had a really cool Quonset hut gym with like four rows of bleachers on each side......
Among the strange result of districts will likely be the transformation of Westmont, which has made the playoffs twice in school history, into a 3A playoff regular out of a district which will be made up mostly of CPL schools...And the Sentinels will likely share a district with Lisle, who may well become the perennial district champ...