CHAMPAIGN — Jerry Colangelo asked for a raise of hands from Chicago natives when he spoke to the Illinois men's basketball team after a Sept. 2017 practice. He got a tentative one from then-redshirt junior walk-on and Northbrook native Cameron Liss.
Colangelo's question to this year's Illini still would have only received a single hand raised from freshman guard Ayo Dosunmu. The Morgan Park grad and Chicago native is one of six Illini from the state of Illinois on this year's team — seven if you count Tyler Underwood, who was born in Illinois but graduated from high school in Texas.