Holy Cross High School (River Grove, Illinois)

[2] The school had a close connection to the Chicago Cubs baseball team in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The Cubs even held their workouts at the school in spring 1972, in the midst of a strike which had shut down all of the major league training camps.[4][5] In 1974, principal Raymond Dufresne cancelled Holy Cross's graduation ceremony and baccalaureate mass after a group of seniors threw firecrackers and honked their car horns in the school parking lot during a graduation rehearsal.Students from Mother Guerin and Holy Cross had already been sharing each other's facilities for certain classes, such as drama, music, and foreign languages.Their baseball team earned six regional championships, two sectional championships, and two appearances in the IHSA State Finals, while their football team had two undefeated regular seasons and six state playoff berths.
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