Miss Illinois Teen USA

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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]

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[edit] Results summary

[edit] 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)

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] Winners

Year Name Hometown Age1 Placement at Miss Teen USA Special awards at Miss Teen USA Notes
2012 Alexandra Plotz Geneva 17
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

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