Miss Illinois Teen USA

The Miss Illinois Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Illinois in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Illinois is in the top fifteen states in terms of number and value of placements over the twenty-three years of the Miss Teen USA competition [1]. Illinois ties with Florida for the most Miss Photogenic awards won at Miss Teen USA (3) and has won more awards than any other state [2].

Three Illinois teens have competed at Miss USA, although none won the Miss Illinois USA title. The first was Cherise Haugen, Illinois' only Miss Teen USA, who competed as Miss Teen USA at the 1985 pageant (the first few Miss Teen USAs were given this opportunity). Later two more would compete at the Miss USA pageant, representing Vanbros states: Terri Bollinger represented Missouri in 1999 and Anne-Marie Dixon Oklahoma in 1998. Vanbros is a pageant production company that owns the Miss Teen USA franchises for, and produces and directs, several state pageants in the Midwest. The Miss Illinois Teen USA Pageant has been the single largest official state preliminary competition with over 150 contestants every year since at least 2002 and has always ranked among the top ten largest state preliminary pageants.^{[citation needed]}

Results summary

Placements

• Winners: Cherise Haugen (1984)
• First runners-up: Autumn Waterbury (1997), Lexi Atkins (2010)
• Third runners-up: Kathleen McClelland (1988), Kelly Cruse (2005)
• Top 6: Anne-Marie Dixon (1995)
• Top 10: Lisa Jessin (1985), Nicole Manske (1998)
• Top 12: Julee Kleffman (1992)
• Top 15: Victoria Davis (2007)

Awards

• Miss Photogenic: Linda Burkholder (1983), Lisa Jessin (1985), Kathleen McClelland (1988)

Winners

Year	Name	Hometown	Age1	Placement at Miss Teen USA	Special awards at Miss Teen USA	Notes
2011	Paige Higgerson	Cutler	19
2010	Lexi Atkins	Champaign	16	1st runner-up
2009	Stacie Juris	Tinley Park	18
2008	Nora Downs	Chicago	16
2007	Victoria Davis	Thawville	18	Top 15
2006	Ceitlyn Glenn	Effingham	17
2005	Kelly Cruse[1]	Marion	17	3rd runner-up
2004	Brittany Acosta	Warrenville	16
2003	Tiffiney McCormick	Streator	18
2002	Lacey Wilson	Hinsdale	17			Later Miss Massachusetts USA 2010
2001	Brittany Richmond	Bristol	17
2000	Kimberly Williamson	Goodfield	18
1999	Amber Dusak	Antioch	18
1998	Nicole Manske	Roscoe	18	Semi-finalist		former cohost of The Speed Report. now of NASCAR Now
1997	Autumn Waterbury	Marion	18	1st runner-up
1996	Eisa Istok[2]	Elgin	18
1995	Anne-Marie Dixon[3]	Highland	17	Finalist		Later Miss Oklahoma USA 1998
1994	Charlotte Martin
1993	Jaime Lyn Holbrook
1992	Julee Kleffman	Hoffman Estates		Semi-finalist
1991	Kara Kline	Champaign
1990	Terri Bollinger					Later Miss Missouri USA 1999
1989	Kimberly Hannell
1988	Kathleen McClelland	Bloomington		3rd runner-up	Miss Photogenic
1987	Danielle Reese	Riverwoods
1986	Dyann Lowery[4]	Sandwich	17
1985	Lisa Jessin			Semi-finalist	Miss Photogenic
1984	Cherise Haugen	Sleepy Hollow	17	Winner	Best State Costume	Non-finalist at Miss USA 1984
1983	Linda Burkholder				Miss Photogenic

¹ Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

1. ^ Rush, Linda (2004-12-01). "LOCAL CROWNED MISS ILLINOIS TEEN PLANS FOR NATIONAL PAGEANT". The Southern. http://www.thesouthern.com/news/local/article_04dda953-04f6-569d-bd15-958d7c1da911.html. 
2. ^ Mask, Teresa (1995-12-02). "St. Edward senior named Miss Illinois Teen USA". Daily Herald. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ADHB&p_theme=adhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED0272178326DAE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 
3. ^ Goodrich, Robert (1995-07-06). "METRO EAST TEENS WINNERS IN PAGEANT; HIGHLAND GIRL SET FOR MISS TEEN-USA". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB08319B9E35BCE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 
4. ^ Krichbaum, Jayne (1995-07-09). "BEAUTY CROWN FITS THE 2D TIME". Chicago Tribune. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/25027777.html?dids=25027777:25027777&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+09,+1985&author=Jayne+Krichbaum&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=BEAUTY+CROWN+FITS+THE+2D+TIME&pqatl=google. 

External links

• Official website